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Old Oct 20, 2013 | 10:59 am
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What's the official position on this?

I booked 2 y flex tickets to gva for skiing in March 2014 and as expected no j availability.

I emailed and asked to be wait listed and ek have said no...this is not what happened to a friend of mine who managed to waitlist for an upgrade on a flight to JFK recently...

I also asked about the 2 guaranteed seats for golds, no response on that point yet...

Skywards gold really isn't worth much these days!
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Old Oct 20, 2013 | 11:16 am
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wait list how? paid or miles or ....?
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Old Oct 20, 2013 | 11:21 am
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I bought 2 flex y and want to upgrade both legs using miles. Wait list for upgrade availability...
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Old Oct 20, 2013 | 11:56 am
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Sometimes they will and sometimes they won't. Not much difference really as they won't automatically deduct miles and upgrade you if its become available anyway
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Old Oct 20, 2013 | 10:47 pm
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Originally Posted by Zol
Sometimes they will and sometimes they won't. Not much difference really as they won't automatically deduct miles and upgrade you if its become available anyway
What exactly does it do then?!

My friend managed to waitlist got the upgrades confirmed and he never had points deducted!
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Old Oct 20, 2013 | 10:52 pm
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Originally Posted by m3red
I emailed and asked to be wait listed and ek have said no...this is not what happened to a friend of mine who managed to waitlist for an upgrade on a flight to JFK recently...
You need to call - not sure if writing will help. If they can't/ won't wait list you now, wait a couple of days before trying again.
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Old Oct 21, 2013 | 12:36 am
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Only tried it once and was told there was no wait list.
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Old Oct 21, 2013 | 1:19 am
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Only tried it once and was told there was no wait list.
There is - at least was until the first half of the year. Perhaps it depends on how full the flight....
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Old Oct 21, 2013 | 1:21 am
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Originally Posted by m3red
My friend managed to waitlist got the upgrades confirmed and he never had points deducted!
Has he taken the flight yet? The seat will show as confirmed but the miles need
to be deducted before you can make the journey.
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Old Oct 21, 2013 | 2:06 am
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Has he taken the flight yet? The seat will show as confirmed but the miles need
to be deducted before you can make the journey.
he took and and no points were ever taken.
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Old Oct 21, 2013 | 2:50 am
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he took and and no points were ever taken.
Wow! I'll try this trick next time
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Old Oct 21, 2013 | 6:02 am
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. . . Perhaps it depends on how full the flight....
. . . . or who you speak to.
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Old Oct 21, 2013 | 6:02 am
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Originally Posted by m3red
he took and and no points were ever taken.
I doubt that very much as a BP can't be issued without the ticket being reissued in the new class of travel. Having said that, I don't get surprised anymore so perhaps it did
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Old Oct 21, 2013 | 6:26 am
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I know that there is a waitlist capability as I have been on it several times. Having said that though, I was always dealing with my local EK office and not DXB.
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Old Oct 21, 2013 | 6:47 am
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I know that there is a waitlist capability as I have been on it several times. Having said that though, I was always dealing with my local EK office and not DXB.
I've got an EF seat alert.

Seat map looks empty in J and it shows good availabilty both ways.

I've asked for the 2 gold seats to be released to no avail.

Good test of trying to upgrade 5 months out...
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