V-Flyer

Hi,

Yesterday, I flew back from PVG to LHR on the VS 251 ( Upper class).

At check in ( apart from being told there was a 5 hour delay to the flight ( aircraft substitution) there were signs advertising the following;

Upgrade from Y to PE for £199 ( I forget the Chinese equivalent)

Upgrade from PE to UC for £199
AND

Upgrade from Y to UC for £398.

I do not know if any people took up the offer as PE had a few seats left and UC was about 50% full.

PS Aircraft was Silver Lady with the new PE seats.

Regards

TBS

Thanks for that TBS.

They look to be very good deals. Much better than those offered to pax departing from LHR at check in. [8D]

Nick

They are really good deals actually, is this commonplace to PVG? Anyone know?

Thanks,
Sarah

What a surprise! And an excellent deal!

Sarah, this is definitely not common. I travel to PVG at least 7-8 times a year, and never seem this sort of deals! None of my colleagues had seen these offers.

In fact, I just back from PVG on 28 Dec. The flight only had 70+ passengers (I think it was 5 Upper, 2 PE and 60+ Y class). There wasn't any operational upgrade (obviously) or paid upgrade deal on offer, otherwise I will definitely pay for that amount to Upper (I had PE ticket).

I hope VS continue to run these offers in PVG, so I can enjoy at least once on the way back.

But I guess this is only for the winter season. Most of the time, for flights to and back from PVG, PE is always quite full, Upper is at least half full.

Sounds like a great deal!

I enquired about a PE to UC upgrade for my EWR - LHR flight on 1 Jan. At check-in someone from the ticketing desk told us it would be $400 - $500 pp. We were definitely going to do it as it would get my husband the 1 additional TP he needs for AU. They told us we would find out at the gate, based on how full the flight was. A gentleman at the gate very snottily told us it would be $1900pp. Quite a big difference! I don't think it was getting through to him that we had S class tickets as he then told us we could use 30,000 miles each and when we told him it was only 20K miles he balked and said we were wrong. It turned out not to matter as the flight was full so no upgrades were available and we are still, sadly, 1 TP from AU.

sadly, 1 TP from AU.

Sounds like a biz class return to Edinburgh on BMI [:w][:w]

Originally posted by slinky09

sadly, 1 TP from AU.

Sounds like a biz class return to Edinburgh on BMI [:w][:w]

ahhh....good idea...will have to look into that! strange question....do you need a passport when traveling between England and Scotland? Asking as I am American and need to turn in my passport for a couple of weeks to get a provisional drivers license.

Originally posted by stars

Originally posted by slinky09

sadly, 1 TP from AU.

Sounds like a biz class return to Edinburgh on BMI [:w][:w]

ahhh....good idea...will have to look into that! strange question....do you need a passport when traveling between England and Scotland? Asking as I am American and need to turn in my passport for a couple of weeks to get a provisional drivers license.

STBC but as a US Citizen you will need to produce a passport when you fly between UK cities. When I fly between US cities I always have to produce my passport.

If you are asking whether UK citizens need passports between England and Scotland then the answer is no - we are all (badly) governed by the same people [}:)]

Originally posted by Mrs Decker
If you are asking whether UK citizens need passports between England and Scotland then the answer is no - we are all (badly) governed by the same people [}:)]

AFAIK you do actually need to produce a passport when flying - as proof of identity ... I stand to be corrected for I rarely take intra-uK flights.

Originally posted by Mrs Decker

Originally posted by stars

Originally posted by slinky09
[quote]
sadly, 1 TP from AU.

Sounds like a biz class return to Edinburgh on BMI [:w][:w]

ahhh....good idea...will have to look into that! strange question....do you need a passport when traveling between England and Scotland? Asking as I am American and need to turn in my passport for a couple of weeks to get a provisional drivers license.

STBC but as a US Citizen you will need to produce a passport when you fly between UK cities. When I fly between US cities I always have to produce my passport.

If you are asking whether UK citizens need passports between England and Scotland then the answer is no - we are all (badly) governed by the same people [}:)]
[/quote]

Looks like my provisional license will have to wait a bit longer, then.... I have priorities, after all! [:p]

(what does STBC mean?)

Originally posted by slinky09

AFAIK you do actually need to produce a passport when flying - as proof of identity ... I stand to be corrected for I rarely take intra-uK flights

I am always on LHR-MAN-LHR runs to see the mighty Manchester United every other week (or so), and yes, proof of identity is required, however this can include drivers license or even an expired passport among other things. That might be just for British citizens though.

Passports are used to establish nationality and ensuing visa requirements at national borders. For domestic travel the ID required is dictated by the airline but most usually includes some form of photo id although BA say "We do not require to see a passport or photo identification if you are travelling on purely UK domestic flights* (i.e. with no onwards international flights).". If they don't need a passport they can't tell your nationality ergo they won't ask non-UK nationals for them.