I've booked an award economy booking (T class) for March next year for myself Per to Syd and a red-edeal ($312 return!) on the same flights for my wife.
On the return leg, there appears to be 2 J class seats available (using the assumption that available award seats are the same as upgrade seats).
Now my question is should I upgrade my wife's red-edeal ticket and hope that I can get an on departure upgrade for myself (I'm a platinum/QC member) or do they as a rule not allow upgrades to award tickets (T class). There are no available J seats for the Per-Syd leg, or else I might just pay the extra 15k points to go J both ways. Don't really want to have to do that for just 1 way. (already spent 5k on changing the route once- got a date change for free first though).
The plane is listed as a 737-800 so only has 12 Business class seats... what should I do. One solution would be sit separately, but would prefer not to do that.
Any ideas?
On the return leg, there appears to be 2 J class seats available (using the assumption that available award seats are the same as upgrade seats).
Now my question is should I upgrade my wife's red-edeal ticket and hope that I can get an on departure upgrade for myself (I'm a platinum/QC member) or do they as a rule not allow upgrades to award tickets (T class). There are no available J seats for the Per-Syd leg, or else I might just pay the extra 15k points to go J both ways. Don't really want to have to do that for just 1 way. (already spent 5k on changing the route once- got a date change for free first though).
The plane is listed as a 737-800 so only has 12 Business class seats... what should I do. One solution would be sit separately, but would prefer not to do that.
Any ideas?