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Old Feb 3, 2005 | 10:38 pm
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Best strategies to get op-up (Y to J or J to F)

Hi,

Any ideas about this? Many thanks in advance.

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Old Feb 3, 2005 | 11:21 pm
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Old Feb 13, 2005 | 5:01 am
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There's one odd thing with CX is that they seem to also have a "random" upgrade for MPC members. I remember being a lowly green with about 10k in club miles only and getting op-up'd to J even though economy was not sold out.

Was a random thing I think which somehow gets factored into their booking system.

However, I do believe that if you are going to get op-up'd, the decision to add you to the list will occur before you even get out of bed that day as it generally happens to oversold flights only.

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Old Feb 15, 2005 | 5:32 pm
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Dressing well and asking very politely got me into F YVR-HKG. It was fantastic and certainly cemented my preferred routing & carrier
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