Lax-ist June 14 upgrade availability.
Jan 27, 2018, 11:03 pm
#1
fadynaime
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Lax-ist June 14 upgrade availability.
Hi all. I’m trying to help my parents upgrade by giving them my miles Traveling on a Turkish airline flight lax-ist on June 14.
It would be very much appreciated if anyone with the ability to check for upgrades could help check if there are any upgrades for this Day.
Thank you. Very much appreciated.
It would be very much appreciated if anyone with the ability to check for upgrades could help check if there are any upgrades for this Day.
Thank you. Very much appreciated.
Jan 27, 2018, 11:29 pm
#2
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You can check for yourself. Just search for flights on that date on the TK website and see whether the cheapest Business Class fare books into J code. TK's website makes the fare code really rather obvious.
Also, have they already bought the economy tickets? An upgrade costs the same number of miles as a straightforward award in Business Class.
Also, have they already bought the economy tickets? An upgrade costs the same number of miles as a straightforward award in Business Class.
Jan 28, 2018, 6:35 pm
#4
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Not sure if OP has connections involved, which would have different/separate availability. If OP's parents are flying LAX-IST-BEY, then he/she needs to do another mock booking to check J availability.
Assuming OP wants upgrades for LAX-IST, better hurry and get them upgraded ASAP, I'm even surprised to see J available within 6 months, it's one of hardest routes to upgrade (even more difficult to find limited capacity business award I).
Assuming OP wants upgrades for LAX-IST, better hurry and get them upgraded ASAP, I'm even surprised to see J available within 6 months, it's one of hardest routes to upgrade (even more difficult to find limited capacity business award I).
Jan 29, 2018, 12:43 pm
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LAX is so well served by European airlines and IST so out-of-the-way for most European and many African connections (plus the usual ignorance about the safety of TK and/or IST), that I really would not expect there to be any difficulty whatsoever in finding J upgrade space. But of course since I'm not based in California I rarely look for it.
Feb 3, 2018, 12:41 pm
#7
fadynaime
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thank you folks for the very quick response. I never had trouble upgrading LAX-IST. but for sure had trouble on IST-LAX. unfortunately, turns out I can't transfer my miles over to my parents, since I haven't flown with TK in the last two years. it seems that there is a requirement that the sender and receiver of miles both must have traveled on at-least 1 TK flight in the last 2 years.
Feb 4, 2018, 12:22 am
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thank you folks for the very quick response. I never had trouble upgrading LAX-IST. but for sure had trouble on IST-LAX. unfortunately, turns out I can't transfer my miles over to my parents, since I haven't flown with TK in the last two years. it seems that there is a requirement that the sender and receiver of miles both must have traveled on at-least 1 TK flight in the last 2 years.
Feb 8, 2018, 3:54 am
#9
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Checking the GDS, J-class is still available:
14JUN THU LAX/PDT IST/‡10
TK RESPONSE ** DIRECT CONNECT PARTICIPANT **
13TK 10 C4 D4 Z4 K4 J4 I0 R0 Y7 B7 LAXIST 1830 1740‡1 404 0
M7 A7 H7 S7 O4 E7 Q7 T7 L7 V7 P7 W7 U0 X7 N0 G0
14JUN THU LAX/PDT IST/‡10
TK RESPONSE ** DIRECT CONNECT PARTICIPANT **
13TK 10 C4 D4 Z4 K4 J4 I0 R0 Y7 B7 LAXIST 1830 1740‡1 404 0
M7 A7 H7 S7 O4 E7 Q7 T7 L7 V7 P7 W7 U0 X7 N0 G0