yes, it's another upgrade q...

OK,

Seeing as the Search function never really likes me let me apologise if this Q has been answered before.

Beginning of June i have a PE reward flights from LGW-LAS (I wanted UC but there was no availability). Has anyone ever successfully booked a PE reward flight and then upgraded (obviously paying the extra few thousand miles) to UC at the airport if there are seats free up front?

Thanks

Alex.

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Hi Alex,

In general, yes - many people upgrade with miles at the airport from an existing reward seat, assuming availability.

If the question was specific to the LAS route, however - I'm sure you know it's a very rare case indeed (and maybe, hence the question?)

[preiffer]

By the way - for reference:

As of RIGHT NOW, there are 4 seats in Upper that are unassigned on your outbound (with 11 free in PE) and 8 free J seats on your inbound (with 7 free in PE).

Buckets available at the moment:

5/JUN = J4 D2 Z0 W7 S7 K7 Y7 B7 L7 M7 Q7 X7 N0
11/JUN = J5 D1 Z0 W7 S7 K0 Y7 B7 L7 M7 Q7 X7 N7

So... it's POSSIBLE. [:?]

Would it be possible to upgrade from a reward economy to a reward upper class at the airport assuming redemption availability ?

Technically not as reward seats arent upgradable - however if availability looks good on the day you could always turn up!! word of warning one time VS charged me £30 because I booked within 24hrs ..given it was a reward e-ticket I couldn't see the justification - this was a few years ago so maybe they're a bit more relaxed about late rewards these days..

[preiffer]

Originally posted by Jonathan
Technically not as reward seats arent upgradable

Sorry Jonathan, but yes, you can.

(And they are "upgradable" in a sense - you can "pay" the difference in miles to upgrade it to the equivalent reward seat in the next class up with no issue at all. I know - I've just done it for 2 members of my family )


I've done it from a U to G at the aiport on two occasions a while back - no problem whatsoever. They'll just take the difference in miles from your account.

Confused now, though... [:?] Where did the £30 for within 24 hours come from? - I've never heard of that before.

Originally posted by preiffer
Confused now, though... [:?] Where did the £30 for within 24 hours come from? - I've never heard of that before.

Well, for non-Au members, there are "express fees", but there are also "handling fees" (see here) - maybe one of those applied at the time?

Cheers

Michael

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Originally posted by mcuth
Well, for non-Au members, there are "express fees", but there are also "handling fees" (see here) - maybe one of those applied at the time?

Wow - never knew that. (Never had it applied/enforced, either [:I])

Well I stand corrected re point one!![:I] - but did get those express fees and was Ag at the time so that makes sense!![|:)]

But thats the great thing about this place you get corrected pretty quickly if you start talking out of your ...[:0]

So paul thanks for the correction!![oo]

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Indeed - I wasn't even aware that there was a chart of "fees" for booking reward seats! [:0]