bitgiggy

Hi

Looking at booking a family of 5 to New York next January and need some advice.

I have around 120k miles in my flying club account, a companion voucher and a premium economy upgrade voucher.

Ideally I would like to upgrade our flight out there to upper class but not sure obtaining 5 seats is realistic (20k each person) - anyone have any advice on the best way of going about this? Can I make use of any of the other vouchers I have?

Thanks in advance!

Steve Oh

If you have the miles then you should have no problem using your miles to get the 5 Upper Class seats.

The companion voucher I think is only available to use with a full-flexible, ie full price ticket, so forget about that.
The premium economy upgrade voucher is fine to use, but you'll probably not be able to upgrade from to Upper Class from Premium Economy after using it.

craigthemif

Companion voucher is indeed garbage. It will usually cost more to book 1 qualifying fare than 2 restricted fares. (and the companion needs award space as well)

And, no, you can't upgrade from PE to UC after using the upgrade voucher. (which is only good for upgrading award bookings, not cash bookings)

Getting 5 UC award seats on the same flight won't be easy, but it can be done since a quick check finds 5 UC seats on 6 January. (make sure to consider EWR as well) You can consider booking as many tickets as you can find availability for, and then hope for further availability to come along closer to departure. However, you will probably end up paying more for upgradable Y or PE tickets than the absolute cheapest ones, so there's a risk there...