chance of an upgrade?

Are you travelling QF103? Or 93?

QF103 looks to have around 14 spare Business seats. In Economy, it is about half full, but the "status" rows are completely full.

This means that you have a reasonable chance of an upgrade, but depends how many business seats they release for upgrades and how many other Plats are in Economy.

QF93 looks to only have a few seats left in Business. Probably a bit less of a chance than QF103.

Good luck! Being a plat your father has put you pretty much at the top of the list. The only thing that matters is how many business seats are released for upgrades and how many other plats/Chairmans lounge members are on the list before you...

If you don't know how the upgrade system works, basically upgrades are done in the order Platinum to Bronze. For each status level, upgrades are done according to the time of request. So a plat requesting an upgrade 3 days before the trip is higher than a gold requesting 2 months before a trip. A plat asking 2 months before the trip is higher than a plat asking 1 month before the trip etc etc etc.

 

Mal,

How have you checked the load for flights that you aren't on? I have used checkmytrip and view trip, but only for flights that I have a booking reference for. Being able to look at other flights would enable you to check loads before booking (if booking late) in order to get empty/full flights to increase chances of upgrade or better seating.

 

Does this apply in the QP also when people are requesting upgrades in the club right before thier flights?

 

Serfty and Lindsay have pretty much explained it. There are tools you can use on the net. Some are pay, some are free. The one I used is a pay one. It gives me seat maps of pretty much any flight as well as indications of available seats as well as sometimes other interesting things.

 

ODU's are not available for international flights. They are available (last time I looked) for the domestic sector of an international flight, but not from MEL to LAX.

Dave