Who calls the shots ?
 

I reckon that when trying to use FD points on Northwest metal for 'free' tickets or upgrades, Northwest still call the shots. I don't know what the pecking order is, NW Elites ? or KLM Elites ? but talk about difficult to get upgrades confirmed out of LGW....I gotta believe that if I still had my Gold Million Mile WorldPerks card it would have been confirmed pretty quick. KLM told me that it was out of their hands and down to NW revenue people. Comments please.

Mike, I don`t know, if there are any differences between being a KL or NW Elite.

I guess, both airlines offer a certain number of award seats and if they are gone, they are gone, regardless if a NW Elite or Braathens Elite or CO Elite would like to have them.

KLM certainly overbooks their award inventory for Royal Wings and that is one huge advantages of the FD programm, which not many FD appreciate enough.I checked it excessively and believe me, you will be seated right next to the new Princess, if there is a seat available on KLM.

But in addition to that, the situation ex LGW seems to be more difficult, with only 12 weekly departures....

Coming back to the question, who is calling the shots, I agree, that on NW metal, it is definately NW, but only in terms of releasing a certain number of seats on their own metal, but not, who will get them.