Upgrading: does electing for Y+ reduce your chances of getting upgraded to J?

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Does anyone know if, when flying Y, electing for Y+ reduces your chances of getting upgraded to J? I guess that would never be made public.

I think I'd rather throw my hat in the ring for J if electing Y+ even remotely reduced my chances.
 
My experience has been that Qantas processes upgrades in order of status, but executes them per-class, i.e. Y+ P1, Y+ WP, Y+ SG, then Y P1, Y P (P1's may be the exception here). If you don't elect for Y+ then you're more likely to stay in Y.

Qantas like to maximise their points redemption yield, and upgrading Y+ to J and then Y to Y+ lets them double-dip on the same seat.
 
My experience has been that Qantas processes upgrades in order of status, but executes them per-class, i.e. Y+ P1, Y+ WP, Y+ SG, then Y P1, Y P (P1's may be the exception here). If you don't elect for Y+ then you're more likely to stay in Y.

Qantas like to maximise the points redemption yield, and upgrading Y+ to J and then Y to Y+ lets them double-dip on the same seat.

Yes, I have a 100% success rate as WP upgrading from Y+ to J, and this was my thinking behind not electing for Y+. But I guess you are right in that they'd just give it to another WP or even SG who asked for Y+.

I think officially it's supposed to be by class of requested upgrade - ie all the upgrades to J, then all the upgrades to Y+, but my experience suggests booked Y+ gets priority.

It's terrible value though. I'm only not ruling it out because I haven't used any points during the last two years and getting pretty close to the million mark.
 
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I think officially it's supposed to be by class of requested upgrade - ie all the upgrades to J, then all the upgrades to Y+, but my experience suggests booked Y+ gets priority.

My colleague and I (same flight, LAX-MEL, him in Y+ as SG and me in Y as WP) both requested an upgrade. Guess whose seat I got. ;)
 
Does anyone know if, when flying Y, electing for Y+ reduces your chances of getting upgraded to J?
No it doesn't. It will give the higher cabin first if available always.

OR are you talking about free upgrades?!
 
No it doesn't. It will give the higher cabin first if available always.

OR are you talking about free upgrades?!

No points upgrades.

I was right for the wrong reason - or perhaps wrong for the right reason.

I knew there was something about Y+ getting priority over Y, but I guess that's if you have booked Y+, elected to upgrade to Y+ apparently doesn't change anything. So even if SG Y+ gets priority over WP Y, electing for Y+ won't change your chances of getting to J. That's how I'm understanding it anyway. It doesn't really fit in with what Qantas publishes (ie, WP being processed 3 days before, SG 24 hours before), but seems to be how it works in practice.
 
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