QF Upgrades - Successes or Failures (post results)

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Re: QF Upgrade Success Rate

Received a text at T-51 for 4 x Y-J upgrade for family on LHR-DXB this week. As of a week ago flight was showing 9's across the board so was pretty confident.

Saturday's DXB-SYD has been showing 0's for weeks so not so confident of 4x upgrades on that one!
 
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5 x W - J upgrade on QF127 tomorrow. No txt had to call the SST to get it processed at T-23. Got the distinct feeling that 5 was proving too hard even with loadings that looked like this

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All good. Will be a great surprise for the family tomorrow
 
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I've had near 100% success Y-J when flying alone. Almost all long-haul international. I've had 0% success Y-J when flying with my husband.
 
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Where/how can you work you the load on a flight?
We're flying Y+ BNE-SYD-HKG return later in the year. Happy with daylight Y+ there but have put in for an upgrade to J for the overnight home. I've already upgraded to J on the domestic flight home from Sydney (on one of the soon to depart 767s). I'm wondering if there's any way to see if we have any chance of the J upgrade on QF128 11/11?
Re upgrade success - about 50%, all domestic, all semi-flex fares BNE-MEL-BNE or BNE-SYD-BNE
cheers
pete
 
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Thanks Mr_Orange

It shows 9 (at least). J, C, D and I are all 9 and U is 0

I suppose well find out in seven weeks or so

cheers
Pete
 
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Re: QF Upgrade Success Rate

bigpetebrown said:
Thanks Mr_Orange

It shows 9 (at least). J, C, D and I are all 9 and U is 0

I suppose well find out in seven weeks or so

cheers
Pete
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You're welcome. It's really too far out at the moment to get a handle on it. I'd check again at T-7 days and then maybe T-48 hours.
 
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Well that's 0/1 for QF6 on Friday. Put in a request for an upgrade from Y to J or PE and no luck as Gold. The funny thing was in the morning a J seat map was showing parallel to my selected Y seat so thought it might work in my favour. There were at least 4 seats available in the hours before so can only assume others were ahead in the pecking order. First request at a QFi upgrade for me...
 
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2/2. 5 x W-J on tonight's QF128 came through at T-15. Quite surprised (in a great way) as availability had been showing 0's for the past week.

I fear the genie has been let out of the bottle for the boys future flight upgrade expectations
 
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Retains 100% success rate as WP... 2 x Y>J upgrades between SYD-HNL on QF3 have just been notified at T-61! Flight is very light, though... so not surprising that they are processing early. I have not bothered upgrading before on this route as I didn't think it was worth it for the Dreamtime seats, but now they are using the A333 / Skybed MKI, it is a more attractive proposition. Definitely looking forward to the A330 refurb, but almost a certainty that this would be the last route to get it.

Cheers.
 
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dairyfloss said:
Retains 100% success rate as WP... 2 x Y>J upgrades between SYD-HNL on QF3 have just been notified at T-61! Flight is very light, though... so not surprising that they are processing early. I have not bothered upgrading before on this route as I didn't think it was worth it for the Dreamtime seats, but now they are using the A333 / Skybed MKII, it is a more attractive proposition. Definitely looking forward to the A330 refurb, but almost a certainty that this would be the last route to get it.

Cheers.
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Congrats on your recent success, however, A333 is a Skybed Mk I, i.e. the sloping bed.
 
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ozbeachbabe said:
Exactly. Ppl all too quick to criticize J class Dreamtime seats on the 763 however I would still take that in a heartbeat over whY.

Having the A330 is still an improvement though.
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Definitely agree better, but was it circa 50,000 points better than Y each way, was my challenge at that point in time!
 
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dairyfloss said:
Definitely agree better, but was it circa 50,000 points better than Y each way, was my challenge at that point in time!
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When I booked a JASA HNL/SYD/DRW it was 72K points (same points as if only flying HNL/SYD) vs 36K for whY so not quite a 50K gap. As you also earned points & SC on these fares I felt that justified the difference but YMMV.

I also used the SYD/DRW leg in my next membership year as a stopover in SYD was permitted, having bought a separate ticket SYD/BNE to connect with QF4.
 
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Platinum 1: 0 for 1 LHR-SYD Y to J.
 
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WP1 -Y to J for 2 pax 7 days out! yeah boi, lol

Haven't had a international upgrade in about 1.5 years, so 1/1 since then
 

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