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Greglem this thread is for reporting Op Up experiences and not for asking questions but The flight looks wide open at the moment on Expert Flyer and there are upgrade seats available in Business class so if you have an economy ticket that is capable of upgrade prior to check in you can currently upgrade for 25,000 miles through Manage My Booking on the EK website immediately.
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Upgrade given: Y-J
Upgrade location: Boarding Gate Route: DXB-BOM Flight number: EK 500 Type of ticket: Saver Date of travel: 03 Nov 2014 Tier status: Gold Tier miles: 61k Skywards miles balance: 78k Number of pax on the same PNR: 1 First letter of your surname: L |
Originally Posted by Greglem
(Post 23787887)
Route: DXB-MUM
Flight number: EK 500 |
Upgrade given: J - F
Upgrade location: Lounge Route: HYD - DXB Date of travel: 14-Nov-2014 Tier status: Blue Number of pax on the same PNR: 1 |
Originally Posted by Polk
(Post 23849787)
Upgrade given: J - F
Upgrade location: Lounge Route: HYD - DXB Date of travel: 14-Nov-2014 Tier status: Blue Number of pax on the same PNR: 1 |
The days of mere golds getting op-upped seem to be over. Out of my last 6 sectors, zero, compared (a couple of years ago and before) when I had something like a 60% success rate.
Since the introduction of platinum, it's dried up completely, I had hoped for one this week on my second sector, DXB-KUL, as I'd received the would I like to spend some miles on an upgrade, AND had no seat allocation at check in, but no, still in J, on an old 777 with very worn out interior, old ICE and people complaining everywhere about things not working. |
I think also there are more and more Gold members, more travellers prefering to fly with EK now.
So difficult to give op-up to each of them. |
Originally Posted by tezzer
(Post 23851609)
The days of mere golds getting op-upped seem to be over.
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Originally Posted by Greglem
(Post 23852995)
I think also there are more and more Gold members, more travellers prefering to fly with EK now.
So difficult to give op-up to each of them. |
Originally Posted by tezzer
(Post 23851609)
The days of mere golds getting op-upped seem to be over. Out of my last 6 sectors, zero, compared (a couple of years ago and before) when I had something like a 60% success rate.
Since the introduction of platinum, it's dried up completely, I had hoped for one this week on my second sector, DXB-KUL, as I'd received the would I like to spend some miles on an upgrade, AND had no seat allocation at check in, but no, still in J, on an old 777 with very worn out interior, old ICE and people complaining everywhere about things not working. |
Upgrade given: Y-J
Upgrade location: At gate Route: DXB - BKK Flight number: EK 376 Type of ticket: Saver Date of travel: 06-Nov-2014 Tier status: Blue Tier miles: ~11k Skywards miles balance: ~27k Number of pax on the same PNR: 2 First letter of your surname: A |
Nov 17
BRU - DXB At Gate Several passengers were called by name. Probably Y->J and J->F EK ground pursuer arrived at gate with new BP in hands. Only people with Flemish names were called to show up at gate. Brussels airport being in the Flemish part of Belgium, no chance for French speaking Belgian people to get an op-up, despite their Ek status? Has someone experienced the same in other airports outside UAE: preference given to local people? |
Had an op-up Y(saver)-J, JFK-DXB. F wasn't full so went ahead and asked the purser if I could use miles to upgrade to F. She said I can't since I'd already been upgraded but I told her that it was possible. She brought me her 'rule book' which had language like "It is not advisable to upgrade revenue passengers to First Class who have been upgraded to Business Class." Would be interesting to hear if anyone still managed an upgrade to F after an op-up to J.
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Upgrade given: Y - J
Upgrade location: Gate Route: e.g. BKK-DXB Flight number: EK373 Type of ticket: Very cheap QF ticket Date of travel: 23/11/14 Tier status: non-status QF Tier miles to date: 0 Skywards miles balance: 0 Number of pax on the same PNR: Single Skywards DOJ (approx): n/a And of course the first letter of your surname! C I can't help but feel I did pretty well to get an upgrade given my stats! I tried to pay for an upgrade to J at the transit check in desk, but was told that I couldn't as it was a QF ticket (seems like there is no such thing as "airport control" of a ticket? On BA, within 24 hours, BA can do whatever they want with the ticket, even if it was issued by someone else)...perhaps this improved my opup chances? It was certainly very nice to get to see the EK A380 upstairs! ^ Being just 4 flights into my EK experiences, and first time in J, I must say it wasn't quite a good as QR, whom i've flown with a lot. I do prefer the EK J beds though. |
Originally Posted by shefgab
(Post 23888482)
Upgrade given: Y - J
Upgrade location: Gate Route: e.g. BKK-DXB Flight number: EK373 Type of ticket: Very cheap QF ticket Date of travel: 23/11/14 Tier status: non-status QF Tier miles to date: 0 Skywards miles balance: 0 Number of pax on the same PNR: Single Skywards DOJ (approx): n/a And of course the first letter of your surname! C I can't help but feel I did pretty well to get an upgrade given my stats! I tried to pay for an upgrade to J at the transit check in desk, but was told that I couldn't as it was a QF ticket (seems like there is no such thing as "airport control" of a ticket? On BA, within 24 hours, BA can do whatever they want with the ticket, even if it was issued by someone else)...perhaps this improved my opup chances? It was certainly very nice to get to see the EK A380 upstairs! ^ Being just 4 flights into my EK experiences, and first time in J, I must say it wasn't quite a good as QR, whom i've flown with a lot. I do prefer the EK J beds though. |
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