Upgrading ONE4 (econ) to business class (D) - charges?
 

Hi,

New to the site - hope you can help.

I'm in the process of booking a OW Explorer economy ticket, which includes a Bangkok-Sydney routing (departing and booking in London). There was no availablity for the flight I wanted (nor for 2 weeks afterwards!) in economy class, so I got BA to put it through as business class for that leg (Club World, D). From what I can understand of the rulesheet, this incurs a $300 charge, but thats it, no other fees to pay.

Can someone confirm whether or not this is true? The sheet says for a LHR-SYD upgrade its $450, but for everything else its $300. I'm pretty sure it won't be treated as LHR-SYD, as I'm actually going LHR-HKG-BKK-SYD, all with at least 24 hours between them. I still don't get how its only $300 to upgrade to business class on an 11 hour flight, hence why I'd like some confirmation.

Thanks!

Upgrading individual segments of a RTW ticket is not permitted, except:

(a) "normal" carrier-specific upgrades (e.g., AA-elites can upgrade AA segments in accordance with normal AA upgrade rules);

(b) upgrading an economy ticket to premier economy on the BA flights (and now that it's available, on QF) from LHR to SIN/BKK to SYD etc. It's $300/leg or $450 all the way.

You're upgrading to premier economy (or 'World Traveller Plus' on BA) - you're not upgrading to business. You are correct in being suspicious that you can get a paid upgrade to business for that price.

On the other hand, if whoever told you that you can upgrade to D for $300/$450 is correct, please let us know, as we'd all like to do that!

You may want to refer to the oneworld rules (on the oneworld site) -

http://www.oneworld.com/content/libr...rule_sheet.pdf

Now that I go and check those amounts (which I'm pretty sure used to be correct), I see that they have now increased them significantly -

12. SURCHARGES
Passengers may travel in QF Premium Economy cabin, JL Premium Economy, or BA World Traveller Plus cabin for an additional charge, per flight segment of:
Sectors between SWP and Africa
Sectors between SWP and Europe
Sectors between SWP and North America
Sectors between SWP and South America
- AUD1100 GBP500 USD1000 JPY112,000


... and welcome to FT. Hopefully, you will find this place is of assistance.

You can upgrade to world traveler plus (not business class) or the comparable premium economy of QF and JAL by paying a surcharge.

Not sure I understand you - my understanding is that you CANNOT upgrade individual sectors on xONEx bookings using $/£/¥/€ etc, EXCEPT to upgrade to premium economy on a LONEx. The ONLY way to upgrade to the J cabin is by using points/miles from the operating airline (namely, QFF on a QF flight, BAEC on a BA flight, and so on).

Can you please clarify exactly what it is you are asking.

Dave

Ooops - too slow. I emptied my beer, and replaced it, and in the meantime, others replied.

Dave

The Y->Y+ surcharges went up considerably when QF started selling it's premium economy product. On the BA flight (or QF codeshare on it) it is of dubious value now - BA's premium economy is not very good.

Apart from the dubious cost, I'd take BA WT+ over BA WT- any day!