Post your recent opup as FTL/SEN/HON [08/2011 -]
#95
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: BOM-SIN-EWR
Programs: UA*G (1K again), Sixt Plat, *was*: SQ QPP01 & SK EBS/EBG, LH SEN, AA EXP, 9wPlat
Posts: 8,605
LH seems to be doing a lot of this now - happened to me, but before I arrived at the airport - saw my seat allocation removed, then when I checked in physically, they said that they had some no-shows, so back to Y!
Nope, it is not a joke... When the BP beeped, I was thinking "Aha, they do need volunteers for denied boarding, lovely..." and instead - such a slam on the face... Well, Austrian Airlines already has an email in their mail box. Those 90 minutes in the air from FCO to VIE let me do some typing :=-)
FCO-VIE T-->C (and then back to M). The flight was overbooked by 5 people in economy. Upon check-in, I was given a new boarding pass with a lovely fat big C letter on it. When boarding, the machine made beep sound and voila - a new boarding pass with my original seat in economy. The agent explained that there were 10 no show-ups who had checked in (I assume, they had done OLCI) and they did not need to upgrade me any more. When she finally understood why I was "downgraded," she actually said "Well, I am very ashamed to tell you, but Austrian decided to withdraw your upgrade..."
#96
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: ZRH
Programs: LX HON Circle
Posts: 3,227
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There seems to be a lot of opups from award tickets also. That confirms what I've personally experienced and hear from colleagues who scored opups on awards.
There seems to be a lot of opups from award tickets also. That confirms what I've personally experienced and hear from colleagues who scored opups on awards.
#98
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 21
Got my first op up after achieving sen. this was my 4th flight after becoming sen.
FRA-ORD. I was sitting in my emergency exit seat when the FM came and told me that she could not ugrade me as I had a special meal. I told her I can live without a special meal. and she pointed to my new business seat.
L class to C(wasn't expecting this at all)
FRA-ORD. I was sitting in my emergency exit seat when the FM came and told me that she could not ugrade me as I had a special meal. I told her I can live without a special meal. and she pointed to my new business seat.
L class to C(wasn't expecting this at all)
#99
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: LAX/PVG
Programs: HH G, MR/SPG G, IHG Plat, Club Carlson G, National Exec
Posts: 191
Apr 6 FRA-JFK S -> C. Scanned my bp at the gate, and the machine printed out a new bp. Y looked overbooked.
Never earned a single mile with M&M, although most of my longhaul *A flights are with LH. Will board a UA metal for the first time ever on Apr 10.
Never earned a single mile with M&M, although most of my longhaul *A flights are with LH. Will board a UA metal for the first time ever on Apr 10.
#100
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Valencia, Spain
Programs: LH SEN, A3*G, BAEC Gold
Posts: 154
March 16, ZRH-NRT Z -> F. At gate, when my BP was scanned, the magic "beep" played and. I was one of the last passengers to board, and I saw a lot of upgrades on that flight.
Y full, C full and F full (it looked like I was the only op-up to F, but can't be sure).
Y full, C full and F full (it looked like I was the only op-up to F, but can't be sure).
Last edited by flozano; Apr 8, 2012 at 9:55 am Reason: Added date
#102
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: FRA
Programs: LH SEN**, IHG Diamond Ambassador
Posts: 665
JFK-GVA (Z to F)
First time in LX new F (seat 1K) for me. Boarding was almost completed when a gate agent came to my seat in C and gave me the F boarding pass. Service was excellent and I slept like a baby until 30 min before landing.
Flight was completely booked in Y and C already 2 weeks before. After my op-up also F was completely full.
First op-up since August 2010 (almost 100 short-haul and 24 long-haul segments on LH/LX/OS without op-up)
First time in LX new F (seat 1K) for me. Boarding was almost completed when a gate agent came to my seat in C and gave me the F boarding pass. Service was excellent and I slept like a baby until 30 min before landing.
Flight was completely booked in Y and C already 2 weeks before. After my op-up also F was completely full.
First op-up since August 2010 (almost 100 short-haul and 24 long-haul segments on LH/LX/OS without op-up)
Last edited by Viennafly; Apr 15, 2012 at 6:17 am
#105
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Seat 1A
Programs: DL; AA; UA; CO; LHLX; NZ; QR; EK; BA
Posts: 7,397
Quasi Op-Up ICN-FRA
Had a quasi or "fake" Op-up yesterday from ICN-FRA (on a Z fare) to an F seat (seat only!). On boarding, boarding pass beeped, and was moved to a single F window seat (old F A346) and told that it would be J service only. Apparently, no F seats were sold, and J may have been oversold, so they seated HONs/SENs in the F cabin. Kind of funny. but the very nice crew really made sure that we only got J service too, LOL! - they only gave out blankets, and even though the mattress padding was available in the drawer at each seat, they pretended it wasn't there ....And they didn't bother putting up the partition between rows 1 and 2, so the person in row 1 when fully reclined had his head a few centimeters away from my feet.... And of course, the curtain between F/J was left open during flight, we got the J amenity kit, the J meal service, etc.