Cabin upgrade voucher

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AndrewT wrote:

Haven’t got a voucher in my account at present to check the exact sequence, but I suspect the missing link is that to book Business you have to specify Premium as the cabin before upgrade (or something similar). If you don’t select that it defaults to upgrade from Economy, and therefore shows Premium tickets to book.

Many thanks Andrew – I thought the “upgrade” was to book in a “higher” cabin and only pay the price of the lower cabin – Rather than the other way round. At least that’s how I read it from here – https://www.headforpoints.com/2024/01/11/how-do-barclaycard-avios-mastercard-upgrade-vouchers-work-3/

[AndrewT]

Not the best presented package. I imagine it’s because it follows the same workflow as ‘Book with money upgrade with Avios’, where procedurally you book and pay cash for the lower cabin then upgrade from there to the higher cabin using Avios (in a single transaction).

The Barclays voucher nominally ‘books’ the lower cabin using Avios and then upgrades to the higher cabin using the voucher – except that it doesn’t require a seat to be available in the lower cabin so it isn’t actually doing anything there at all.

[NorthernLass]

If you click through to the next page, you will be able to see that you are booking business class.

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Sorry @AndrewT and @NorthernLass you were correct, just needed to click to the next page. Many thanks!