V-Flyer

I've got two Econ>Premium Reward Upgrade vouchers to use before March 2010. When looking at the reward seat availability on flights using 'spending miles', should I just be checking for PE availability?

I know it seems obvious but so many different rules usually render vouchers worthless...

Thank you. [?]

(They're the vouchers where an Economy Reward is upgraded to Premium)

No - technically there needs to be availability in both T(economy reward) and U (PE reward).It's easier to look for the PE reward availability first and work back from there.
DL

I may be wrong, but I thought there only had to be U availability. [:?] That's how VS explained it to me anyway.

I was told the same by FC, the reward availibility needs to be in U, as that's the class you will be flying in. Y has no bearing on the reward.

Thank you all, I'll start by looking for U and then see if they'll let me use them!
[;)]

It will probably be easier to phone Flying Club to go through the details, get them to check availability & do the booking for you. I treid to do it online but couldn't find where to input the voucher. I could see the Economy availability but not the PE.

I've just used our Amex upgrades & were advsied by the UK call centre that these were not 'Reward Miles' upgrades, but 'full fare' Economy upgrades.

In the end, I had to get a supervisor to read the Credit Card T&C's on the VS website to get it confirmed.

quote:Originally posted by Credit Crunch
It will probably be easier to phone Flying Club to go through the details, get them to check availability & do the booking for you. I treid to do it online but couldn't find where to input the voucher. I could see the Economy availability but not the PE.


You can search for U class availability on line here but you will need to phone FC to book the upgrade. For PE availability select spend miles and set cabin to Premium Economy.

quote:Originally posted by DragonLady
No - technically there needs to be availability in both T(economy reward) and U (PE reward).It's easier to look for the PE reward availability first and work back from there.
DL


There only needs to be U availability for you to use the AmEx PE upgrade voucher.

Neil

quote:Originally posted by Neil
quote:Originally posted by DragonLady
No - technically there needs to be availability in both T(economy reward) and U (PE reward).It's easier to look for the PE reward availability first and work back from there.
DL


There only needs to be U availability for you to use the AmEx PE upgrade voucher.

Neil


When I used one (the Amex voucher)a few years ago I was told that I needed both availabilities.

quote:[
i]Originally posted by DragonLady[/i]

When I used one (the Amex voucher)a few years ago I was told that I needed both availabilities.

I think the rules have changed. When I first enquired about using one I was told the same, needs to be both T & U availability, but then after speaking to people on here was told only U, so I phoned back and after much discussions it was confirmed that there only need to be U seats available to use it.

It does make sense really as you will only be occupying the PE seat so it is just removing a Y reward seat for no reason.

Neil

Thank you everyone - I'll confirm it's only U availability that's required when I get to book shortly, (when SHMBO allows it!).