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TheBoatman
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Re: Flight Upgrades vaguely boaty
Brian
I think it's a scam as normally the upgrades are up to the "dispatcher person". Turn up looking all clean and washed, tell them in polite convo that your flying with them because they are a great airline and your going to be using them a lot over the next few months and (hint, hint) that your up for an upgrade should one be available.
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Brian
I think it's a scam as normally the upgrades are up to the "dispatcher person". Turn up looking all clean and washed, tell them in polite convo that your flying with them because they are a great airline and your going to be using them a lot over the next few months and (hint, hint) that your up for an upgrade should one be available.
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tcm
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Re: Flight Upgrades vaguely boaty
yes, i haven't come across one of these upgrades in a white envelope.
I can offer that if you march to the club desk and how much for an upgrade, once you've been told that it forty squillion pounds, you can gulp and say erm, gasp[ well, um can i check in here anyway? This often works.
Otherwise, nice smiles do work, sometimes.
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yes, i haven't come across one of these upgrades in a white envelope.
I can offer that if you march to the club desk and how much for an upgrade, once you've been told that it forty squillion pounds, you can gulp and say erm, gasp[ well, um can i check in here anyway? This often works.
Otherwise, nice smiles do work, sometimes.
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Twister_Ken
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The secret???
As a (thankfully) non-frequent flyer, the only time I ever got an upgrade was when I'd borrowed Madame's travelling bag, and it still had her BA gold club baggage tag on it. Otherwise its always been "Get down the back you cheapskate and don't dare moan about your knees being in the kidneys of the poor git sitting in front of you. Just be glad we even deign to carry riff-raff like you."
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As a (thankfully) non-frequent flyer, the only time I ever got an upgrade was when I'd borrowed Madame's travelling bag, and it still had her BA gold club baggage tag on it. Otherwise its always been "Get down the back you cheapskate and don't dare moan about your knees being in the kidneys of the poor git sitting in front of you. Just be glad we even deign to carry riff-raff like you."
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ParaHandy
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Re: Fatipa chandleries Inc ...
... dollar at 1.82 ... how big's the boat? and when will you be coming back?! commission at oooh, lets say n bottles of macallan should ease the disagreeable vicissitudes visited upon yer goodself when travelling cattle class ...
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... dollar at 1.82 ... how big's the boat? and when will you be coming back?! commission at oooh, lets say n bottles of macallan should ease the disagreeable vicissitudes visited upon yer goodself when travelling cattle class ...
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EME
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Flight Upgrades vaguely boaty
Forget the white envelopes...
Upgrades on these airlines are either 'Grace and Favour' ( you know somebody in the company who just changes the reservation or fiddles it at check in ) ... or capacity controlled due to overbooking in which case it is all automated and Platinum/Gold cards are auto-upgraded.
So no help here then... except (assuming you need accomodation) .. have a look at some PACKAGE holidays for the duration you want with Bus class upgrade. You may well find that cheaper. Stay clear of the Airours and like , try people like BA Holidays and the such like who use scheduled airlines...
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Forget the white envelopes...
Upgrades on these airlines are either 'Grace and Favour' ( you know somebody in the company who just changes the reservation or fiddles it at check in ) ... or capacity controlled due to overbooking in which case it is all automated and Platinum/Gold cards are auto-upgraded.
So no help here then... except (assuming you need accomodation) .. have a look at some PACKAGE holidays for the duration you want with Bus class upgrade. You may well find that cheaper. Stay clear of the Airours and like , try people like BA Holidays and the such like who use scheduled airlines...
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sailbadthesinner
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Re: Flight Upgrades vaguely boaty
riff raff?
well yes okay
i would pre book the first two trips go the desk waving the tickets and say look i have booked the first two of many flights any chance?
from those i know who have been succesful i do know you need to be dressed smartly and not carrying a battered old bag covered in antifoul and gaffer tape
mentioning you are over to inspect your new purchase of a sooper doooper yacht may impress
i can sell you a white envelope to you that will guarantee you a free flight back unfortunately you will be handcuffed to an air marshall for the entire trip
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riff raff?
well yes okay
i would pre book the first two trips go the desk waving the tickets and say look i have booked the first two of many flights any chance?
from those i know who have been succesful i do know you need to be dressed smartly and not carrying a battered old bag covered in antifoul and gaffer tape
mentioning you are over to inspect your new purchase of a sooper doooper yacht may impress
i can sell you a white envelope to you that will guarantee you a free flight back unfortunately you will be handcuffed to an air marshall for the entire trip
<hr width=100% size=1>My wife wanted tender treatment, so i stowed her whilst at sea
jfm
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Re: Flight Upgrades vaguely boaty
Agree with the others, upgrades are rare. I use BA a lot and have gold card, and normally go in the middle of the plane tansatlantic. But despite using them a lot, etc etc, I have only been upgraded free to first or concorde 3 times in 6 or 7 years. A few suggestions (though I would defer to Learner on this, he's the expert):
-you can now use BA miles to upgrade
- if you buy non flexible business class it's a lot cheaper than fully flex, eg £2.5k return instead of £5k
-join the exec club even if only blue tier
-Dont prat about at checkin saying you are big customer etc, they can look you up on a screen to see it you are mr big and lying to them will not earn any favours
-Always dress fairly smart and get on the busiest flights. Eg to NYC on BA always get the 18.30 LHR departure, because it's dead busy and more likely to have the auto upgrades that Learner mentions
-check out the price coming the other way, eg a dollar based tampa-london-tampa return. This might be cheaper, and then you only need to buy one ticket in UK, to use for your first and last trip
-finally, if you can be bothered, buy say a stockholm Tampa retrun, change at LHR. These are dead cheap business class. Catch is, you have to go to stockers (airmiles?) to join the first leg AND nowadays you also have to take the last leg back to stockholm (whereas previuosuly you could stay at LHR on the plane change and discard the Stockholm ticket portion). So, a pretty crap idea that one
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Agree with the others, upgrades are rare. I use BA a lot and have gold card, and normally go in the middle of the plane tansatlantic. But despite using them a lot, etc etc, I have only been upgraded free to first or concorde 3 times in 6 or 7 years. A few suggestions (though I would defer to Learner on this, he's the expert):
-you can now use BA miles to upgrade
- if you buy non flexible business class it's a lot cheaper than fully flex, eg £2.5k return instead of £5k
-join the exec club even if only blue tier
-Dont prat about at checkin saying you are big customer etc, they can look you up on a screen to see it you are mr big and lying to them will not earn any favours
-Always dress fairly smart and get on the busiest flights. Eg to NYC on BA always get the 18.30 LHR departure, because it's dead busy and more likely to have the auto upgrades that Learner mentions
-check out the price coming the other way, eg a dollar based tampa-london-tampa return. This might be cheaper, and then you only need to buy one ticket in UK, to use for your first and last trip
-finally, if you can be bothered, buy say a stockholm Tampa retrun, change at LHR. These are dead cheap business class. Catch is, you have to go to stockers (airmiles?) to join the first leg AND nowadays you also have to take the last leg back to stockholm (whereas previuosuly you could stay at LHR on the plane change and discard the Stockholm ticket portion). So, a pretty crap idea that one
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Badger
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Re: Flight Upgrades vaguely boaty
About 2 years ago I was flying back from San Francisco on BA Business Class, when there had been an overbooking and I was upgraded to First Class.As I settled into my luxurious seat and sipped my champagne, the cabin services director asked me if I would mind filling in a marketing questionnaire for first class passengers.As an incentive to comply, all completed forms would be put in a prize draw to win a Caneletto painting. I quickly worked my way through all the stuff about age, profession, leisure interests etc and arrived at the final question which was, if you won the painting what would you do with it.Thinking to myself, flog it and buy a Contest 44, I wandered over to the bar area for more inspiration and sat next to an elegantly attired middle age lady holding a glass of champagne in one hand and a pen and questionnaire in the other.We exchanged pleasantries and as I glanced down, I couldn't help but notice her answer to the final question, if you won the painting what would you do with it........... "Hang it with the other one's " she had written.That was my first and only time in First Class !
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About 2 years ago I was flying back from San Francisco on BA Business Class, when there had been an overbooking and I was upgraded to First Class.As I settled into my luxurious seat and sipped my champagne, the cabin services director asked me if I would mind filling in a marketing questionnaire for first class passengers.As an incentive to comply, all completed forms would be put in a prize draw to win a Caneletto painting. I quickly worked my way through all the stuff about age, profession, leisure interests etc and arrived at the final question which was, if you won the painting what would you do with it.Thinking to myself, flog it and buy a Contest 44, I wandered over to the bar area for more inspiration and sat next to an elegantly attired middle age lady holding a glass of champagne in one hand and a pen and questionnaire in the other.We exchanged pleasantries and as I glanced down, I couldn't help but notice her answer to the final question, if you won the painting what would you do with it........... "Hang it with the other one's " she had written.That was my first and only time in First Class !
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Twister_Ken
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Love the story! nm
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starboard
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Re: Flight Upgrades vaguely boaty
A scam dont bother with them...sort of working in the industry as I do your best bet is to dress smartish!! all airlines overbook coach class by up to 20% on the basis that there will be lots of no shows. Club and first normally underutillised so the extra punters fill those emty spots...but only if your smartly dressed!!
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A scam dont bother with them...sort of working in the industry as I do your best bet is to dress smartish!! all airlines overbook coach class by up to 20% on the basis that there will be lots of no shows. Club and first normally underutillised so the extra punters fill those emty spots...but only if your smartly dressed!!
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jfm
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Re: Flight Upgrades vaguely boaty
Great story!
You do get some super wealthy passengers. I once turned up at airport for urgent trip, booked seat on phone in cab on way there. I got the last available seat. The lady next to me was horrid to me the whole way because she had bought 2 tickets(at 6 grand a pop) just so she could have an empty space next to her, and BA had said they would agree to this plan only if another gold customer didn't arrive for the flight and need the seat. She thought it had worked, till I ran on just as the door was closing, and I had to sit next to this miserable scowling cow the whole way home. Naturally, I burped, farted, and belched as much as I could, and talked loudly to my plumber about dog-racing on the satphone, just to piss her off some more and reinforce her dislike of sharing a 777 with riffraff!
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Great story!
You do get some super wealthy passengers. I once turned up at airport for urgent trip, booked seat on phone in cab on way there. I got the last available seat. The lady next to me was horrid to me the whole way because she had bought 2 tickets(at 6 grand a pop) just so she could have an empty space next to her, and BA had said they would agree to this plan only if another gold customer didn't arrive for the flight and need the seat. She thought it had worked, till I ran on just as the door was closing, and I had to sit next to this miserable scowling cow the whole way home. Naturally, I burped, farted, and belched as much as I could, and talked loudly to my plumber about dog-racing on the satphone, just to piss her off some more and reinforce her dislike of sharing a 777 with riffraff!
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