Qantas Upgrades - Successes or Failures (post results)

[DAC1]

Both WP and 1 passenger.

QF33 SYD-PER - PE Saver to J - Successful, confirmation text arrived at approximately T-50 hours.

QF652 PER-SYD - Flex Y to J - Successful, confirmation text arrived at approximately T-83 hours.

 

[Notyourbag]

No luck on QF87 or QF88 over the past week as a Platinum Y to J.

 

[HockeyMonkey]

Going to enjoy P1. QF93 MEL-LAX W>J upgrade cleared 7 days out

And now success on the return at T-7 days before even taking the departure flight.

Not surprised given the return is on an A380

 

[TeaKozy]

21/4 QF37 WP flexY to J - Successful at the gate, was only showing a single seat available.
24/4 QF38 WP flexY to J - No dice. Completely full flight.

 

[darloflyer]

No luck on QF2 SIN to SYD 28/04, WP Y to J

 

[trendwhore]

QF79 MEL-NRT for tomorrow, submitted business upgrade with points (original booking also points), accepted within 20 mins.
I'm a lowely bronze

 

[fletty]

QF79 MEL-NRT for tomorrow, submitted business upgrade with points (original booking also points), accepted within 20 mins.
I'm a lowely bronze

How close to departure did you put in the request?

 

[vhojm]

All requests are P1 priority from my mum who is CLPO (about to lose both though)

18/4 QF45 MEL-DPS, 2 pax Flex Y to J no luck but expected as flight was packed on Good Friday. They blocked 4D for me, so we had all three seats which was more than comfortable enough.

26/4 QF38 SIN-Mel 2 pax Y to J no luck and plane was 100% full. Heaps of CL/WP/P1 in the first 6 rows of economy and nobody was upgraded. Staff in the lounge said it was the busiest night of the year and all 9 flights out of Singapore were at capacity.

3/5 QF767 MEL-PER 2 pax Classic reward Y to J confirmed upgrade T-30.

 

[burneracc]

Anyone ever get this?

“Your upgrade request to Business on QFxx from xx_x on xx/xx was unsuccessful due to insufficient points balance.”

Rather annoyed as I absolutely do have enough points to make the request. I called them up to ask for help / clarification but don’t have much (any) hope.

 

[mviy]

Did you wait to get the e-ticket PDF email before putting the upgrade request in? If not, that can cause issues.

Also if you change your FF PIN AFTER making an upgrade request that can break it as well.

Unfotunately, when you get that message it's almost certainly too late for your flight this time as they most likely will have allocated an upgrade to someone else instead.

 

[sudoer]

Did you wait to get the e-ticket PDF email before putting the upgrade request in? If not, that can cause issues.

I don't think the QF website allows requests before ticketing now. When helping a family member recently, the upgrade button was greyed out until the ticket had been issued.

 

[HockeyMonkey]

Anyone ever get this?

“Your upgrade request to Business on QFxx from xx_x on xx/xx was unsuccessful due to insufficient points balance.”

Rather annoyed as I absolutely do have enough points to make the request. I called them up to ask for help / clarification but don’t have much (any) hope.

Was the upgrade request definitely made from your account and not someone else’s or a Qantas Business Rewards account?

 

[jrfsp]

Success for QF 10, reward Y to J at T-28. Very happy - looks a full flight.

 

[burneracc]

Was the upgrade request definitely made from your account and not someone else’s or a Qantas Business Rewards account?

Absolutely was my own account - had to request the upgrade manually over the phone due to it erroring when attempting to request via the webpage / app and keyed in my qff number as part of it.

Oh well, I have since flown the flight, but it’s disappointing still. Luckily the middle seat was free so I could stretch out still. 17 hours went by surprisingly fast.

 

[eting]

Long time lurker!
QF72 from CR Y to J successful for Mrs and I tonight.
Was confirmed T-27 hrs.

Enjoying the Qatar lounge as we speak

 

[Flyfrequently]

Long time lurker!
QF72 from CR Y to J successful for Mrs and I tonight.
Was confirmed T-27 hrs.

Enjoying the Qatar lounge as we speak

Well done on the upgrade and posting @eting !

 

[Cessna 180]

QF 37. Mel Sin.
Classic economy to J. Around 27 hours prior to dep. possibly not the best use of 58000 points as eco is apparently only half full.

 

[fletty]

QF 37. Mel Sin.
Classic economy to J. Around 27 hours prior to dep. possibly not the best use of 58000 points as eco is apparently only half full.

Still better than a toaster!

 

[Chalkie]

QF446 MEL-SYD 4/5/25 Y(K) > J unsuccessful (no failure notification)
QF445 SYD-MEL 8/5/25 Y(K) > J successful @ T-24

 

[OzFamily]

Succesful - J sale fare to F, QF63 flying SYD to JNB tomorrow x 2 people, received notification 24hrs out. Lowly Bronze with QC but booked flights and requested the points upgrade in Aug last year. Certainly my favourite text from Qantas in a long time...now when the text comes to say the flight is delayed I will be less bothered for sure.