upgrades on a VH ticket

Sorry folks i tried to search but couldnt see anything (not very good at this!)[:#]

i have booked a holiday with Virgin to Jamaica.Is it usual to find that they offer upgrades at check - in? (say to Premium)?[?]

[Neil]

As far as I know, and ISTBC, If you want an upgrade then you would have to have a ticket that is upgradable, and as VH is N or V fare, this is not the case, so you would have to pay the diff to an upgradable fare then pay the difference to the upgrade, I guess the best thing to do is to try and upgrade driect with VH before you go, as with the 10%FC discount the upgrade rates are fairly good.

I could be totally wrong, but hopefully that is correct.
Neil:)

Originally posted by motherger
Sorry folks i tried to search but couldnt see anything (not very good at this!)[:#]

i have booked a holiday with Virgin to Jamaica.Is it usual to find that they offer upgrades at check - in? (say to Premium)?[?]

I'm sure there are threads but:

1. They do offer them sometimes. At LGW there's a big banner behind the check in desks saying "Ask About Upgrades" (I paraphrase)

2. I have also seen smaller notices dotted around if there's a special offer

3. One catch *may be* the class of ticket you start with. I know you can't do mileage upgrade with an "N" ticket at check in. I'm not sure what the position is with cash offers. I know that when I upgraded before travelling on a VH booked ticket I lost certain "flight discounts" - I assume I had been booked on, and invoiced for, a "N" class ticket that needed changing to "Y" to facilitate the upgrade.

Paul

Hi Motherger,

You will be able to pay to upgrade once at check-in regardless of which fare bucket you are booked into - Subject to seats being availableof course!! Y to PE is normally around the £200-£250 mark for Caribbean and East coast routes. Hope this helps.....

Good luck!!!!!

Originally posted by motherger
Sorry folks i tried to search but couldnt see anything (not very good at this!)[:#]

i have booked a holiday with Virgin to Jamaica.Is it usual to find that they offer upgrades at check - in? (say to Premium)?[?]

PE to the carribean is always pretty busy in my experience.
Chances of upgrade at check-in are less than favourable.

Best secure it before you get to the airport.

If you do decide to go for it and you are on a 747 (I think
most are) make sure you bag a seat upstairs.

Robert

Cheers Guys (hello Tallprawn!)

Fingers crossed for check in day!

Is it wise then to do the OLCI beforehand or jsut turn up at twlight check in?

It mentions in the VH brochure(s) that you can upgrade "one-way" from £249 for Y to PE, and £979 for Y to UC......not sure if you culd get a better deal at the airport though.

Update:

Just telephoned the after sales team and was advised can upgrade to PE for £250pp one way & UC £590pp one way.

God decisions,decisions.......

My wife and I will be travelling home from MBJ VS066 20/21 Sept, our return leg is a V class ticket booked through VH. We have been upgraded as a good will gesture on a Space Available basis. Having checked availablilty for out outbound to MCO VS075 and VS066 things are looking good, (all 7`s)

At check in for our fligth to MIA in March this year they were offering an upgrade to UC from PE for about £650 - and we could have taken this with no extar charge even though we were travelling on an H ticket with Virgin Holidays. They were also offering upgrades from Y to PE too but did not catch the price - Ive seen posts on here where I think this was around £250.

I think if you are going to use VH and you know what class you want then the deals in the brochure are usually about on a par with those you perhaps get offrered at the airport - and of course, there's no guarantee that the airport will have upgrades avaialable.

As ever with an upgrade, and this has been said on this site many times - the only way to guarantee and travel in a particular class is to pay for it when you book.[y]