Air Calin business upgrade

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helenma

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I recently posted about going to Noumea and staying at Le Meridien. We did, had a fantastic time and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

We booked our flights oddly ..ie Mr booked his flight through Amex travel credit which only allowed a Qantas flight.

I booked myself thru my Amex travel credit which allowed any airline. I chose Air Calin as it was $100 cheaper than Qantas (same plane-code share).

I had been itching to upgrade us to business but I couldn't see how to upgrade myself on Air Calin (apparently you have to be sent an email).

Anyway, get to airport print out pass and I am 1A. Upgraded for free by Air Calin. (yay!)

Mr, who is silver QFF and I went to Qantas sales desk to get an upgrade for him. Couldn't as Qantas had no capacity left.

On board as the seat next to me was empty (five empty seats in business) I asked if Mr could join me up front. No luck, was told upgrades only managed from ground!

I did wave to Mr as he was in 5F. However he maintained later that no eye contact allowed between classes.

Great trip, but what a conundrum with the upgrade. We would have happily paid (up to about $500) to have Qantas upgrade Mr for the flight.

Suggestions on how to get around this for anyone else in same situ?
 
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Hi

I recently posted about going to Noumea and staying at Le Meridien. We did, had a fantastic time and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

We booked our flights oddly ..ie Mr booked his flight through Amex travel credit which only allowed a Qantas flight.

I booked myself thru my Amex travel credit which allowed any airline. I chose Air Calin as it was $100 cheaper than Qantas (same plane-code share).

I had been itching to upgrade us to business but I couldn't see how to upgrade myself on Air Calin (apparently you have to be sent an email).

Anyway, get to airport print out pass and I am 1A. Upgraded for free by Air Calin. (yay!)

Mr, who is silver QFF and I went to Qantas sales desk to get an upgrade for him. Couldn't as Qantas had no capacity left.

On board as the seat next to me was empty (five empty seats in business) I asked if Mr could join me up front. No luck, was told upgrades only managed from ground!

I did wave to Mr as he was in 5F. However he maintained later that no eye contact allowed between classes.

Great trip, but what a conundrum with the upgrade. We would have happily paid (up to about $500) to have Qantas upgrade Mr for the flight.

Suggestions on how to get around this for anyone else in same situ?

This sounds like a codeshare arrangement between Air Calin and Qantas where they each have a set number of seats they have to fill on the plane. The inventories are kept separate. This is why there may have been zero inventory for Qantas to offer or process an upgrade, while Air Calin did. It's possible you might not have even been able to buy a full fare business class ticket through the Qantas flight.

Upgrades on baord are offered by some airlines, but not all. Usually this will be by cash or credit card, but could be dependent on catering. Seats going empty are not uncommon - airlines want to avoid the situation where poeple only buy economy tickets and hope to score a cheap upgrade on the day of departure (which ultimately could affect long term revenue).
 
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