Are you looking to upgrade using miles? If so you have to search
For D (for economy to business) or for Z (business to first) availability.

Yep, with miles. Availability in D just opened up for most days in that week bar the 25th and 26th of Dec. Was unsure whether this means it's less likely for the 26th to open up given it hasn't at the same time or if there's still a good chance it will become available closer to the date.

Cheers

The letters are fare classes. P & A are first, J, C & I are business, the rest are economy.

The numbers are the minimum number of tickets that are available in that class. So, R7 means that there are at least 7 tickets available in R class. The higher letters are usually the cheaper tickets, so you'll often see something like :-

P1 A0 J2 C0 I0 O7 Y7 E7 R7 W7 M7 B7 U7 K7 H7 Q3 L0 T0 V0 X0

and also


F,P, A = first

J, C , I, O = Business

everything else is economy


The letter C instead of a number( example VC instead of V5) means that that type of fare is closed. If it is L instead of a number(example VL instead of V4)
then it means that it is closed but the waitlist is open.

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BNE/DXB
 

Hello everyone,
have been reading the EK forum for quite a while now but only registered today. I recently moved down under and will take my first big leave back to Europe. Currently I'm booked on EK435 BNE/DXB 18DEC. The flight looks as follows: I'm gold with 62K stat miles YTD, flying economy on E fare, what do you think the chance of an op up is? I really would NOT want to spend 15 hours in an economy seat :D There are no upgrade seats available atm.

Thanks for the feedback! ^

If you want to increase your chances of upgrading by using miles, I would suggest setting a seat alert on expertflyer. They do release seats at the last minute but you have to be quick. I just missed a seat that was released for a
Flight in a few weeks time. I knew that a seat had become available, but lost it to someone else due to a 2 to 3 hour delay in logging in.

Regarding operational upgrades you might get it if you are very lucky. But personally I don't trust lady luck for Long haul.

Just to need a quick confirmation by the forum: If someone is booked on a reward ticket in Y, he cannot upgrade with miles to J, correct?

http://www.skywards.com/Spending_miles.aspx?SkinID=7

I had a look at the rules and there is no info that you cannot. I have never done a reward booking(always use miles for upgrades). Does the reward ticket begin with a number other than 176??as mentioned in the rules?

Thanks for checking - we haven't bought the ticket yet. I will let you know!

Anyone else has been in this situation?

Correct, you cannot do a double upgrade. Refer to section 13.2 of the T&C's
However, you can go from Y to F in the following manner. For example, if you used miles to upgrade your flight from Y to J, and then got to the airport, EK can then op-up you from J to F. This has happened to me several times. Obviously load and route dependent.

You are right, but I wasn't asking for a double upgrade. It would be a fare on a reward and then upgrade to J.

Are you asking because a roundtrip award in J is more miles than a roundtrip Y award with roundtrip upgrade? Or you only have enough miles for a one-way upgrade?

I don't see why it would not be possible but I think it would just be called something else - such as a J class award! :p

Correct.

Correct, I only want to do it one-way (night flight).

Then you can just book a multi class reward instead of overcomplicating things :)