Does anyone know if the 14 day advance notice to print & mail a SWU cert. for an LH flight a "hard and fast rule" or a guideline as to how long it might take?

Our TA is trying to workout an upgrade for my boss on an LH FRA-LAX flight on 12/1. She booked the flight a couple days ago, and just last night called us to get an address to have the cert. mailed to us here in Europe. I honestly think its not gonna get here in time, but she seems confident. She is also claiming that as long as he has the cert in hand at check-in he "will get the upgrade", but my understanding is that its standby only?

No, it doesn't take 14 days to print & mail the SWU cert. They are much faster.

SAA cash upgrades?
 

Bump... Any recent experience or information on whether SAA offers cash upgrades at check-in ex-LHR or ex-JNB? Just to be clear, by cash upgrades I mean a fixed fee to upgrade as opposed to paying the fare difference.

No, I am not aware of anything like this. It is certainly not an advertised feature of SAA and I have never heard of it happening (come to think of it, maybe once on FT, I'd have to do a search, but no time now).

The above link takes me to: http://www.unitedairlines.com.sg/cor...ish/index.html

NZ booking classes for upgrade from PE to BIZ
 

I've been trying to upgrade LAX-LHR on NZ from Premium Economy to Business Premier using *A (LH M&M) miles but found that A booking class is not upgradable. I'm wondering if it's possible to upfare to O (which is the next lowest booking class for PE) so that I can use miles for an upgrade to Business Premier. I've been told that only U,E,O,Y & B booking classes can be upgraded.

My fare must be either ALX21AP3 or ALW21AP3 and according to KVS:
THE FARE MAY BE USED AS A CREDIT TOWARDS ANY HIGHER NZ FARE WITH COLLECTION OF THE FARE DIFFERENCE.

Has anyone been successful in upgrading from Premium Economy to Business Premier with *A miles by upfaring first? I got the impression that seats were available and an upgrade could be processed rather than waitlisted but I may have been optimistic.

Hi.

I have been searching the threads and have not yet found an answer to this. If someone has it and get provide it...thanks. In the meantime I will keep looking.

I have an RTW biz class paid fare, booked through US that has an LH leg to Europe, 2 SQ legs from LHR to SIN and then two days later to SYD and then United leg from SYD to SFO. Is there any way to upgrade individual legs using cash or points? For example I have Delta points...can I use them on SQ? I have lots of US points. I have Virgin points as well. Also I can transfer Starwood points to any airline.

I will keep looking and post what I find in terms of answering these questions. Eager to see how the new United biz class is...and VERY EXCITED to be flying the 380 from LHR - SIN!

On the SQ flights, only flights that are not operated with A380 or 77W a/c can be upgraded using miles from FFPs participating in the *A mileage upgrade scheme. (I understand from another recent post that UA does now participate but not on SQ.)

Thanks Kiwi for untangling that a bit. I'm in SQ business so I don't really need to be able to upgraded. And I will check with United and if it is available just transfer Starwood points to get into F for the leg Sydney-SFO.

Even though it looks like the original post hasn't been updated in a while, if you've got time Kiwi does it make sense to add the following links:

Replace *A Upgrade Awards with:

http://www.staralliance.com/en/trave...de_awards.html

AC: no link available
CA: http://ffp.airchina.com.cn/EN/jldhz/jljpjsc.jsp#9
NZ: http://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/airpo...aralliance.htm
NH: http://www.ana.co.jp/wws/general/e/a...r_upgrade.html
OZ: http://us.flyasiana.com/Global/AU/en...?fid=CLUB15320
BD: no link available
MS: no link available
OS LO LH LX: http://www.miles-and-more.com/online...l=en&cid=18002
SK http://www.flysas.com/en/EuroBonus/S...eupgr&vst=true
FM: no link available
SQ: http://www.singaporeair.com/saa/en_U...ts.jsp#Header2
SA: https://www.flysaa.com/voyager/Progr...ing_frame.html
JK: no link available
TP: no link available
TG: http://www.thaiairways.com/frequent-...e-airlines.htm
TK: http://www.thy.com/en-INT/miles_and_...ade_award.aspx
UA: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...returning.html http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6722,52927,00.html
US: Not possible: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/us-ai...ice-versa.html

Old threads:
Initial announcement: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/star-...de-awards.html
Miles & More miles for use on OZ TP TG metal: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/miles...-oz-tp-tg.html
Miles & More miles for use on NH SQ metal: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/miles...oss-nh-sq.html
SK miles on UA metal: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/sas-e...ds-united.html
NH miles on LH LO OS SQ metal: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/all-n...de-awards.html


Delete Varig

Add Air China, EGYPTAIR, South African Airways, SWISS as a pointer to Lufthansa, TAP Air Portugal, Turkish Airlines

Sorry, don't have the time to read through the entire thread and the OP is not clear to me. Hopefully, can get a quick answer:

UA 1K with SWU's. How do I use them to upgrade on TG? Can it be confirmed at booking? Is it the same process as upgrading on UA metal, that is, apply for upgrade, and either get waitlisted or confirmed?
Thanks

Sorry, you can only use SWUs on UA and LH. If you'd like to upgrade on TG, you can try doing a Star Alliance Upgrade Award using miles - see http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6722,52927,00.html for more info

This is probably a pretty dumb question, but I cannot find the answer on this thread. Any help would be appreciated.

I booked a LH ticket (SFO > CPH) for business travel (M class). My company does not allow Y, B tickets. I would like to upgrade to Business, but the agent told me that I need to be in Y or B in order to upgrade (I don't have status with United, but I do have a bunch of miles that I can spend).

What can I do (if anything) to upgrade to Business?

- Can I go from M -> Y -> C using miles?
- Is there a FAQ on what SWU or CR1 allows (providing I have one) - will it allow this?
- Anything else I can do?

Thanks!

About the only thing you can try to do is contact your travel agent and then try to up-fare to a Y/B fare, or maybe even directly to a Z (discounted biz fare). No miles, swu, or cr1 will up fare you to y/b.

A SWU printed for LH use can be used to ugprade Y->C on a standby basis (one SWU per leg).

Otherwise, if the OP wants to use own miles, he/she needs to upfare to B first (keeping in mind that it's likely there will be no upgrade availability anyway).