Her first QF flight and she gets an op-up!
Feb 8, 2009, 3:45 am
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Her first QF flight and she gets an op-up!
Had an excited call from young Miss JtheJ last night...she was boarding QF2 for a trip to SYD via BKK with her latest beau...booked in T-class...and at the gate her BP went 'BEEP' and lo and behold both were upped to J.
A text just in says they have landed in BKK and she is enjoying the experience.
Well done QF is all I can say...she is probably too pi$$ed to say anything!
Only problem now is if she does not get similar treatment on the way back she will be disappointed.
A text just in says they have landed in BKK and she is enjoying the experience.
Well done QF is all I can say...she is probably too pi$$ed to say anything!
Only problem now is if she does not get similar treatment on the way back she will be disappointed.
Feb 8, 2009, 4:00 pm
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My guessing is that Miss JtheJ was ticketed LHR-SYD and that's what her op-up was for. I know it's basically the same thing, but I would think it unlikely she would have been op upped for only the one sector (at least not in LHR).
Feb 9, 2009, 4:35 pm
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Clarification
She was actually ticketed LHR - SYD (via BKK) - WLG with the LHR - SYD being in T and the SYD - WLG in Y and was op-up'ed on the LHR - SYD (via BKK) leg.
She has arrived and from the SMS message I received seems to have enjoyed the experience.
Since she has flown in BA's F & J cabins I await her return to find out how she found QF's product compared to those.
She has arrived and from the SMS message I received seems to have enjoyed the experience.
Since she has flown in BA's F & J cabins I await her return to find out how she found QF's product compared to those.
Feb 9, 2009, 6:43 pm
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Feb 10, 2009, 1:14 am
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OP - your girlfriend is more lucky than I am. For the first year of me as a SG and WP, I did not get a single op-op, although I did get a few last year.
Saying that, my mother who is not even a member of any FF programme gets more op-ups (including on QF but almost any random airline) than I do as a QF WP. She gets op-uped at least one sector on every international return she books. While I'm glad she gets to travel in comfort, it's bordering on annoying that she gets op-uped far, far more than I do. I have no idea how she does it, and neither does she (she never asks, she never does anything out of the ordinary)
Saying that, my mother who is not even a member of any FF programme gets more op-ups (including on QF but almost any random airline) than I do as a QF WP. She gets op-uped at least one sector on every international return she books. While I'm glad she gets to travel in comfort, it's bordering on annoying that she gets op-uped far, far more than I do. I have no idea how she does it, and neither does she (she never asks, she never does anything out of the ordinary)
Feb 19, 2009, 12:30 pm
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No...she has no BA status...still lowly Blue in the BAEC...and has only ever used her BA AmEx 2:4:1 vouchers and the miles she has gained through 3rd-party promotions such as Tesco Clubcard etc...she has rarely ever flown a fully paid for flight and certainly not in the past 2 - 3 years until this one!
Must be something in the genes...I myself had an op-up to F on BA earlier this week when travelling back from DEL on a ticket which was booked into T and MFU'ed to J....although I at least have a moderately shiny BA card.
Must be something in the genes...I myself had an op-up to F on BA earlier this week when travelling back from DEL on a ticket which was booked into T and MFU'ed to J....although I at least have a moderately shiny BA card.
Feb 19, 2009, 8:07 pm
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I've winged on here before about this. My g/f has had TWO op-ups on QF in the past 2 years out of about 5 flights. Both domestic but still. I was platinum for several years and never got a single op-up out of Qantas. Both times she was upgraded at check-in by a male she "made conversation with". Pffft... us ugly blokes don't stand a chance against pretty women
