Upgrade to Business Class
#1
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Upgrade to Business Class
Hello,
How can I upgrade online using miles from Economy to Business?
Thank's for help !
DC10
How can I upgrade online using miles from Economy to Business?
Thank's for help !
DC10
#2
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#5
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I tried to call local office and their office and both offices told me that upgrade is not possible and that only possibility would be to do airport upgrade. But I checked ExpertFlyer website and still shows me few seats are available in (J) class. Is Expert Flyer wrong or Turkish Airlines don't want to upgrade me?
#6
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Hard to say. ExpertFlyer inventory could be off (different POS), availability could differ by O&D (TK uses married segment logic), or, most likely, the local sales office simply doesn't know how to do mileage upgrades and rather than admitting that, makes up an excuse and passes the buck on.
#7
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Hard to say. ExpertFlyer inventory could be off (different POS), availability could differ by O&D (TK uses married segment logic), or, most likely, the local sales office simply doesn't know how to do mileage upgrades and rather than admitting that, makes up an excuse and passes the buck on.
#8
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Hello again,
After short discussion with my local Turkish Airlines office I was putted on wait-list. When I checked booking I could saw two tickets for my flight, 1 in Y and 1 in J. After few hours J ticket disappeared from booking. Was I removed from wait-list or why my J ticket disappeared? If I check Expert Flyer today I can see 0 reward seats but same cabin occupancy as yesterday when there where 5 seats available.
After short discussion with my local Turkish Airlines office I was putted on wait-list. When I checked booking I could saw two tickets for my flight, 1 in Y and 1 in J. After few hours J ticket disappeared from booking. Was I removed from wait-list or why my J ticket disappeared? If I check Expert Flyer today I can see 0 reward seats but same cabin occupancy as yesterday when there where 5 seats available.
Last edited by DC10; Nov 8, 2018 at 4:05 am
#9
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Hello again,
After short discussion with my local Turkish Airlines office I was putted on wait-list. When I checked booking I could saw two tickets for my flight, 1 in Y and 1 in J. After few hours J ticket disappeared from booking. Was I removed from wait-list or why my J ticket disappeared? If I check Expert Flyer today I can see 0 reward seats but same cabin occupancy as yesterday when there where 5 seats available.
After short discussion with my local Turkish Airlines office I was putted on wait-list. When I checked booking I could saw two tickets for my flight, 1 in Y and 1 in J. After few hours J ticket disappeared from booking. Was I removed from wait-list or why my J ticket disappeared? If I check Expert Flyer today I can see 0 reward seats but same cabin occupancy as yesterday when there where 5 seats available.
#10
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Thank's for reply. Are airport upgrades with miles just for 1 leg or for the entire journey. Because call center agent suggest me to come early and ask for upgrade at the check-in. And it is a night flight and I am looking forward to the upgrade.
#11
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Dont worry too much. If a seat in business class is available at check-in you will be able to request an upgrade for miles at the check-in desk. However, I'm not sure if the upgrade include other/subsequent legs than the current from your point of departure - I'm sure that the agent will try to apply the upgrade only for the leg he/she is in charge of - and may try to give you some explanation that upgrade for later flights is not possible, not avilable etc.
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Just don't build your hopes up to high - it's better to have a nice surprise than a crushing disappointment !
#13
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I is for mileage upgrade
I tried to call local office and their office and both offices told me that upgrade is not possible and that only possibility would be to do airport upgrade. But I checked ExpertFlyer website and still shows me few seats are available in (J) class. Is Expert Flyer wrong or Turkish Airlines don't want to upgrade me?
Edited: J is the class that should be available if you want to upgrade with miles (or E+ voucher), I is for business award.
Last edited by zap7; Nov 10, 2018 at 3:55 pm Reason: Made a mistake with booking classes and was corrected by other poster
#14
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I class availability is for award biz ticket.
#15
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It's even written down on their website right here: https://www.turkishairlines.com/en-b...rds/index.html :' "In Business Class, if there is space in the "J" class and you have a confirmed reservation, you can upgrade. You can upgrade up to 24 hours before flight departure via one of our sales offices or call center."
So if they told the OP that no upgrade was available despite J class being shown it might be:
- incompetent agent, so hang up and call again (so standard with TK that I didn't mention it, but recently I had very good experiences: 2017+2018: 10x TK agents getting TK request right the first time, and for *A partner awards, it usually just took two calls to get one thing done for my last four awards since 2017)
- Married segments; I ran into this with TK more often than with others, even on paid D class: AAA-BBB and BBB-CCC showing a clįss as available, e.g. D4 J4, but AAA-BBB-CCC had D0 J0