Award Availability
May 27, 2016, 7:57 am
#4
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 3
May 27, 2016, 8:09 am
#5
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 5,454
You can view it online - although even if it says no availability, if on the day there's space available, you can still use miles at the airport to upgrade (or on board if you are Silver or above).
May 27, 2016, 8:21 am
#6
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 3
Thanks for your response. Can you tell me where on their site, exactly, I can find where it says if a flight has availability to upgrade from Economy to Business with miles? All I see is the number of miles it would take to upgrade along with the following text associated with each flight "Upgrades with Miles are subject to availability." However, no where can I seem to find if an upgrade is, in fact, available for the flights I've selected. Thanks in advance for your help!
May 27, 2016, 8:39 am
#7
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 5,454
Thanks for your response. Can you tell me where on their site, exactly, I can find where it says if a flight has availability to upgrade from Economy to Business with miles? All I see is the number of miles it would take to upgrade along with the following text associated with each flight "Upgrades with Miles are subject to availability." However, no where can I seem to find if an upgrade is, in fact, available for the flights I've selected. Thanks in advance for your help!
If you haven't, then J upgrade seats come out of the D bucket, which is also the J saver bucket, so do a redemption search for J saver (you must do a round trip search).
F upgrade seats come out of Z, so you can just search for any F availability in the redemption search system.
May 27, 2016, 9:35 am
#8
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 3
If you've already bought a ticket then you can do it via MMB.
If you haven't, then J upgrade seats come out of the D bucket, which is also the J saver bucket, so do a redemption search for J saver (you must do a round trip search).
F upgrade seats come out of Z, so you can just search for any F availability in the redemption search system.
If you haven't, then J upgrade seats come out of the D bucket, which is also the J saver bucket, so do a redemption search for J saver (you must do a round trip search).
F upgrade seats come out of Z, so you can just search for any F availability in the redemption search system.
May 27, 2016, 11:50 am
#9
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Economy, mostly :(
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 7,801
Thanks for your response. Can you tell me where on their site, exactly, I can find where it says if a flight has availability to upgrade from Economy to Business with miles? All I see is the number of miles it would take to upgrade along with the following text associated with each flight "Upgrades with Miles are subject to availability." However, no where can I seem to find if an upgrade is, in fact, available for the flights I've selected. Thanks in advance for your help!
Sep 13, 2016, 2:00 am
#10
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 188
I have flights booked in Y+ and none of the 4 legs has upgrade available (waiting for 1 week till now). Flights are 2 weeks out. Are they so empty they want to fill them up with paid pax or is this normal?
My last flights also did not have upgrade available (as on the webpage) but was able to sleep in '4-middle-seat-flat-bed'. It was so empty.
My last flights also did not have upgrade available (as on the webpage) but was able to sleep in '4-middle-seat-flat-bed'. It was so empty.
Sep 14, 2016, 10:36 am
#11
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: SRQ
Programs: UA Plat-Million Miler (1.6MM), IHG-Plat Amb; Amex Plat-P, Marriott-Gold;Hertz Gold; Hilton-Gold
Posts: 762
Expertflyer
Sep 27, 2017, 6:25 am
#13
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Manchester/London
Programs: Skywards Plat, Bonvoy Titanium
Posts: 1,226
When searching expert flyer for availability what exactly are Business - Flex Award seats?
Business - Saver Award & Upgrade seems pretty self explanatory - seats that are required in order to upgrade with miles but struggling to understand exactly what a flex award seat is..
Business - Saver Award & Upgrade seems pretty self explanatory - seats that are required in order to upgrade with miles but struggling to understand exactly what a flex award seat is..
Sep 27, 2017, 7:03 am
#14
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Economy, mostly :(
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 7,801
When searching expert flyer for availability what exactly are Business - Flex Award seats?
Business - Saver Award & Upgrade seems pretty self explanatory - seats that are required in order to upgrade with miles but struggling to understand exactly what a flex award seat is..
Business - Saver Award & Upgrade seems pretty self explanatory - seats that are required in order to upgrade with miles but struggling to understand exactly what a flex award seat is..
Sep 27, 2017, 9:40 am
#15
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Manchester/London
Programs: Skywards Plat, Bonvoy Titanium
Posts: 1,226
Still lost on this one skywardhunter, Expert Flyer is showing 7 Flex Award seats available for a specific flight however I phoned to check if these flights could be upgraded and they said there were no upgrades available?