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Hi all, I recently purchased a standard reward seat to Tokyo Haneda in Economy, and then called them to upgrade it to Premium Economy. Would I be able to upgrade this to Business at the check-in? Has anyone done this and know roughly how much it would cost if I do it with cash / points? Thanks
Similarly, I booked a return to Bangkok for me and a friend in economy, this time using a Companion Voucher from the free BA amex. Would I be able to upgrade this at the check in desk as well?
Thank you
You can upgrade for cash, yes. There is a fixed price list.
Note that you won’t get any Avios or tier points for the cabin you sat in. A cash ticket would get you Avios / TP of the lower cabin and if you had an Avios ticket you’d get nothing. This is because your ticket isn’t reissued, you are simply seated in the higher cabin.
There was a trial allowing you to use Avios but I think it ended. It was bad value anyway, basically just the cash price converted into Avios at 0.5p per point.
Do you get lounge access on airport UGs?
Do you get lounge access on airport UGs?
Yes on BA, but not all other airlines will give this
I might have misunderstood you @Rob, but I’m not sure you’re quite right there.
I think the price list isn’t fixed, but will vary depending on whether they need to upgrade anyone, and how full the higher cabin is. You might find that no upgrades are available if the higher cabin is full.
If you upgrade a cash ticket with cash at the airport on BA you will get the avios and TP of the higher cabin (although the avios will just be based on spend now). This also applies on airport upgrades for a few Oneworld airlines, but on most (including AA) it doesn’t – you get the TPs of the original ticket.
If, as here, the underlying ticket is a reward one then there are no avios or TP irrespective of how you upgrade.
I might have misunderstood you @Rob, but I’m not sure you’re quite right there.
I think the price list isn’t fixed, but will vary depending on whether they need to upgrade anyone, and how full the higher cabin is. You might find that no upgrades are available if the higher cabin is full.
If you upgrade a cash ticket with cash at the airport on BA you will get the avios and TP of the higher cabin (although the avios will just be based on spend now). This also applies on airport upgrades for a few Oneworld airlines, but on most (including AA) it doesn’t – you get the TPs of the original ticket.
If, as here, the underlying ticket is a reward one then there are no avios or TP irrespective of how you upgrade.
Yes you’re exactly right. I’ve done this before – booked in WTP on Avios, upgraded at the airport for a random price plucked from an algorithm to hurt my pocket just enough!
The upgrade price list very much is fixed and obviously depends on the route – see below for MEX from Nov/2022, for instance.
Ability to upgrade will of course depend on availability of seats in the higher cabin. Free operational upgrades are also possible, but on BA almost exclusively happen when they’ve overbooked your original cabin.
There are previously quoted prices for a lot of routes in the Wiki on this thread: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-club/2146215-airport-upgrades-aup-promotion-2024-thread.html – including multiple different quotes for the same routes, either at similar times or with a lower quote later than a higher one to suggest they are not fixed, or at least not for long.
I am not seeing many quotes from around the same time, but suspect it’s more agent kindness/error than a sophisticated pricing operation on BA’s side at the outstations. But I could be wrong 🙂
I am not seeing many quotes from around the same time, but suspect it’s more agent kindness/error than a sophisticated pricing operation on BA’s side at the outstations. But I could be wrong 🙂
Entirely possible, certainly at the out stations.
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