Upgrade Qantas FF

[cdahl]

Hi, I'm flying from Melbourne to Los Angeles at the end of march in a gold ff almost platinum are there any chances of asking for a free upgrade or am I dreaming???

Thanks.

 

[markis10]

Upgrades are done by a process far removed from the airport, in a lot of cases the person does not even have the power to make such changes, so your chances are very close to winning lotto, without a ticket.

 

[Boris spatsky]

See other threads on AFF. Some Platinums have never received an upgrade in over 10 years of flying. Lotto might have better odds to be honest

 

[froggerADL]

are there any chances of asking for a free upgrade or am I dreaming???

Thanks.

Your chances of asking are excellent. Your chances of a free upgrade are close to zero!

 

[BAM1748]

I wouldn't bother asking, accept you'll be getting what you have paid for. (which seems fair to me)

Matt

 

[spudseamus]

I would take that as a no then ? ;o)

 

[Simo]

Last Sunday night I was talking to one of the girls in the lounge in SIN and was trying to get a bit of an upgrade and was told no.

 

[kezsco]

It's all about loading and not about chatting up or asking.

I was op upped last night QF21 SYD to NRT. PE to J. However, the loads for the flight a week before was 0 across the board. So, as a WP in PE (travelling solo), I had an inkling that I would get an op up and didn't put in for a points upgrade. The flight was chock full without a spare seat at all. Economy was overflowing with Japanese high school kids returning from their Yr 11 'school study excursion'. This meant none of them had status. So, some economy status pax were bumped to PE. And then those with decent status with original PE tickets were bumped to J.

I do a fair bit of flying- mostly with Qantas. Last night was the third time in 13 years of solid flying to get an op up. It is rare and because it is done based on loads, you can guess your chances based on the flight availability (look it up on flightstats).

Finally, you have a better chance if you have a PE ticket.

 

[Berlin]

I love those threads

 

[kempvet]

The only upgrades that I have ever had are likely for operational reasons (seat problems), or flight oversold perhaps and LUCK!!!!!!!

I have been ugraded twice to J from Y and twice to PE to from Y.

one ugrade to J from Y happened with Korean some time ago, and recently was upgraded to PE from Y on the BNE-LAX flight.
BOTH times I was unexpectedly early at the airport as the flight was significantly delayed but I was connecting and wasn't able to be told, I guess I was the very first to check in on oversold Y flights.

I got upgrade to J from Y from SIN-LHR simply because my boarding pass could not be read (originally printed in PQQ) and I guess the flight was full and the only way to reissue the pass was to find the next free seat - happened to be in J.

The last upgrade that I got was from SIN-SYD from Y to PE, they called the names of a few of us at the SIN J lounge and upgraded us all at the same time, could be a last minute booking from a volley ball team, who knows.

MORAL of story, if you want a free upgrade, likely get to the airport at least 30 minutes before official ticketing begins and you might be lucky to get an operation upgrade and hope that not too many QFF's with higher status are on the flight.

 

[christopherc]

i travel every month and sometimes several 3 or 4 times in a month on Qantas since 4 years and i regularly receive free upgrades. The last one was on february for me and all my family (my wife and one kid, one teen) from Sydney to Noumea.
I've been upgraded on long haul flights from HKG to SYD so everything is possible.

 

[simongr]

Conversely over the past six years I have had 121 flights on QF that potentially could have been upgraded and have been upgraded twice. So yes anything is possible - including not being upgraded.

Of those 121 flights about 94 of them were as a Qantas platinum the others as a OWE.