Are upgrades charged per segment?
Jan 25, 2005 | 8:00 am
#1
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Are upgrades charged per segment?
I'm sorry if this already has been asked, I couldn't find it when searching. I also wrote the Helpdesk, but the answer they gave me didn't make things clearer. My question is simple though, due to bringing extra weight I thought I would upgrade to C on my trip HEL-AMS-VIE, but not on the return. How many miles will this cost me? 10000 for HEL-VIE, or 20000 for HEL-AMS, AMS-VIE?
Any experiences?
Any experiences?
Jan 25, 2005 | 8:58 am
#2
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: UK
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As far as I'm aware you only pay once.
Are you SURE you want to do this, though? If you have miles coming out of your ears - fair enough. But if not this seems like a waste of miles for me. You get 10 kg of extra baggage in C. Wouldn't it make more sense to just pay for your extra baggage? I wouldn't waste miles on a European upgrade - don't forget that Europe Select is just Economy with a meal thrown in.
Are you SURE you want to do this, though? If you have miles coming out of your ears - fair enough. But if not this seems like a waste of miles for me. You get 10 kg of extra baggage in C. Wouldn't it make more sense to just pay for your extra baggage? I wouldn't waste miles on a European upgrade - don't forget that Europe Select is just Economy with a meal thrown in.
Jan 25, 2005 | 9:28 am
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Originally Posted by Aviatrix
As far as I'm aware you only pay once.
Are you SURE you want to do this, though? If you have miles coming out of your ears - fair enough. But if not this seems like a waste of miles for me. You get 10 kg of extra baggage in C. Wouldn't it make more sense to just pay for your extra baggage? I wouldn't waste miles on a European upgrade - don't forget that Europe Select is just Economy with a meal thrown in.
Are you SURE you want to do this, though? If you have miles coming out of your ears - fair enough. But if not this seems like a waste of miles for me. You get 10 kg of extra baggage in C. Wouldn't it make more sense to just pay for your extra baggage? I wouldn't waste miles on a European upgrade - don't forget that Europe Select is just Economy with a meal thrown in.
To answer your question, according to the KLM site you're ticket is for the whole stretch and as long as you just have a connection in Ams and not a longer stop-over it's counted as one flight since they don't have direct flights for your iternary
Jan 27, 2005 | 4:35 am
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Originally Posted by Steve Fenton
why would you want to upgrade on a european flight ????
Originally Posted by PappaG
My question is simple though, due to bringing extra weight I thought I would upgrade to C
pmcg
Jan 27, 2005 | 6:47 am
#7
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What about round the world segments ? I'm shortly going to book a round the world passport fare with the minimum of 3 stopovers....Tokyo...Vancouver.....New York and home. Looking in the handbook, and working on a continent to continent one way upgrade...the mileage required seems to be pretty generous...assuming that seats are of course available.
Jan 28, 2005 | 12:31 am
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I agree with everyone here, no point in wasting the miles. I would rather pay and courier my extra baggage then waste 10,000 miles on a ES.
Its only an extra 10kgs, try and bring this down to 6-7 kgs and you might find that most check in attendants will let that pass. But then that is a slight risk.
Its only an extra 10kgs, try and bring this down to 6-7 kgs and you might find that most check in attendants will let that pass. But then that is a slight risk.
Jan 30, 2005 | 5:51 pm
#10
Join Date: May 2003
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interesting point though ...
if you upgrade from the UK via AMS to North America (yyz, in my case), i found the upgraded segments were only the transatlantic ones and not the feeder to AMS. there's no biz class as such, but seating down the front would have been appreciated - select seating has gone and you're at the mercy of when you check in. i was an hour early and still could only get a seat at the back of the fokker. so much for being a PE!
i'd called FD in ams' to query all this and they insisted i couldn't get down the front. were they wrong?
G
i'd called FD in ams' to query all this and they insisted i couldn't get down the front. were they wrong?
G