V-Flyer

I have looked on experflyer and currently there are 12 seats taken in the UC cabin, one of which is mine. I know that my flight is not until March, but say the cabin in not full, say 70% full, how many people are likely to be upgrade into UC? Would they fill the UC cabin up? [:0]

Mark

Hey Mark,

Well it depends if crew have friends or family on board, when we came back from DXB in December when I check in I asked the agent if UC was busy she said that there was only 28 seats confirmed out of the 48, but when we boarded, there were only about 4 or 5 seats spare?? I don't know if they op-up as Y was very empty and PE was 3/4 full. When having my treatment the IBFT (who was great) she said that some crew upgraded their friends, if they did, they did it very discreetly [y] The service still was great! On most of my UC the cabin has been nearly full and the service hasn't been bad.

Fingers crossed you get a nice quiet cabin!

Dominic

Unless over-booked, you wouldn't see any op-ups, but there may be some staff+family non-revving (who won't be there if it is over-booked;))

VS.

They don't upgrade to FILL the front up, they upgrade because the back is full!

J being empty has virtually no impact on the likelihood of Op-Ups happening. Y/W being full is the driver.

To add to what Preiffer sez... And you may find it is fuller on the day. Not only are they still selling seats, not every ticket sold will necessarily have been allocated a seat yet (I am assuming you used the seat check facility on EF). On the availability check the maximum tickets available for sale it shows is 7, and I assume this is what EF is showing for your flight. If that is so, it could still even be full due to over selling (Although unlikely with a number as high as 7).

EF flyer is great for all sorts of things. But it is only a rough indicator of how many bums will actually be on seats - be careful not to read too much into the results.

It also depends on which route that you are flying.

We knew Japanese crews are based in London, becasue it is too expensive to keep them in Tokyo (yes, it is more expensive in Tokyo).

But all Chinese crews, for example, as described as regional crew, they are all based in Shanghai. They don't have the same benefit as their UK colleagues (7 free flights a year), but they do come here twice a year for staff training.

I've seen a lot of regional crew been upgraded to Upper class. Aparently, I've been told this is VS policy to upgrade them.

I guess there won't be some many VS staff to fill in each VS flight, but they do take some space in particular routes.

Brilliant, thanks guys for you views

Mark

Depending on your grade and length of service you are entitled as part of your staff travel deal to a certain number of 'J Upgrades' These are space available. These passengers will be on the standby list and therefore wouldn't have shown in the booked figure.

Likewise if you are on duty travel it is likely (again depending on your grade) that you will have a space available J upgrade in your booking. Depending on the type of duty travel ticket you are holding, i.e Positive space or Must Go you will either be on standby or appear in the Y booked figure and be upgraded to 'W' or 'J' depending on space.

Also remember people do BUY upgrades on the day of departure - it's very common! Also a cabin can fill up from people who missed an earlier flight or are being re-routed, people re-protected from another carrier etc etc.

As all this happens on a daily basis, they wont move people up just to fill up the cabin.