9W: What if you forget your upgrade vouchers?
Jan 31, 2011, 3:58 pm
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9W: What if you forget your upgrade vouchers?
Say if you have a confirmed upgrade on a 9W domestic flight using vouchers and then you turn up at check-in without them? Do they downgrade you or let you fly in biz?
A couple of times the agent has forgot to take them off me and it seems that they are void anyway after the flight as their system knows that its been used so I don't see why they should mind.
Reason I ask is that I wanna upgrade someone as a surprise, hence why they won't be carrying their vouchers.
A couple of times the agent has forgot to take them off me and it seems that they are void anyway after the flight as their system knows that its been used so I don't see why they should mind.
Reason I ask is that I wanna upgrade someone as a surprise, hence why they won't be carrying their vouchers.
Feb 1, 2011, 2:20 am
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you won't be allowed to travel in business if you can't produce the voucher on request....once i booked a flight for my mother but she forgot to carry her voucher....she was denied the upgrade....
if you want to surprise someone then i suggest sending the voucher to the local jet airways office in your city & have them put a note on the reservation that the voucher has been submitted....
if you want to surprise someone then i suggest sending the voucher to the local jet airways office in your city & have them put a note on the reservation that the voucher has been submitted....
Feb 1, 2011, 7:17 am
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you won't be allowed to travel in business if you can't produce the voucher on request....once i booked a flight for my mother but she forgot to carry her voucher....she was denied the upgrade....
if you want to surprise someone then i suggest sending the voucher to the local jet airways office in your city & have them put a note on the reservation that the voucher has been submitted....
if you want to surprise someone then i suggest sending the voucher to the local jet airways office in your city & have them put a note on the reservation that the voucher has been submitted....
Feb 1, 2011, 7:44 am
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On another occasion however, I had only 4 vouchers on me, but needed 5 for the J -> F upgrade, and they were happy to do it on an honour basis, as I was well known to the duty manager, and he to me! On my next trip, I did find him and offer that 5th voucher.
Feb 1, 2011, 8:09 am
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As per directive of Mrs. Goyal herself, the ground staff get in serious trouble and are personally fined if vouchers are not collected.
Too many people were confirming bookings and not showing up with the vouchers.
There is no computer system that tracks them - it is only the physical handing over of the vouchers that deems them used.
They used to do a "honor" system for known passengers but with many people playing dumb and refusing to give the vouchers after the fact where they have no recourse they have become very stringent about this, and understably so.
Too many people were confirming bookings and not showing up with the vouchers.
There is no computer system that tracks them - it is only the physical handing over of the vouchers that deems them used.
They used to do a "honor" system for known passengers but with many people playing dumb and refusing to give the vouchers after the fact where they have no recourse they have become very stringent about this, and understably so.
Feb 1, 2011, 8:59 am
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In fact they even knew the flights. So I guess they must have a way to track them now.
Feb 1, 2011, 11:18 am
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Once at check-in they did forget. And as I was sitting in 1A, with my nimbu pani welcome drink, just before doors close the lady who had checked me in came huffing and puffing, and asked me for the voucher as she had forgotten at check-in! Seemed very relieved to get it in her hands from me!
Feb 1, 2011, 11:28 am
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Seriously, whatever happened to the simple fresh juice options! In the entire J cabin, I did not see a single person choose that milkshake!
Feb 1, 2011, 12:53 pm
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On yesterday's BOM-DEL in Premiere, the welcome drink was either nimbu pani or a banana milk shake which looked like very very white curdled dahi!! Seriously, whatever happened to the simple fresh juice options! In the entire J cabin, I did not see a single person choose that milkshake!
Seriously, whatever happened to the simple fresh juice options! In the entire J cabin, I did not see a single person choose that milkshake!
Feb 2, 2011, 12:49 am
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Feb 2, 2011, 3:15 am
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