Emirates “upgrade purchase” gives you priority boarding and a Business Class seat on the aircraft - nothing else. No lounge access, no extra baggage allowance, points at the class of original purchase if you’re a frequent flyer, no limo transfers (where otherwise offered)
From your post, I presume they even got there without losing yet another aircraft, so a good result all round.Originally Posted by Nirish guy
You're not kidding. That's about £1320. If the upgrade cost for the other legs was the same, that's £2060 to get a price for the whole trip.
Finn air do business class from £1723, although I recognize you might not want to start from Heathrow & my dates might be completely different to yours.
[Excuse any minor errors, as I'm trying to do this with no calculator]
I'm guessing that Colmx falls into my category of traveller i.e when he reaches the counter and he's tired, or wanting to see a new plane or just wanting to "splurge" he simply says "fuck it" and goes ahead and books whatever it is he fancies without doing a forensic accounting exercise as to whether he should or not on the off chance that he can get it cheaper in some other way on another airline etc. My trouble is my brain ALWAYS works like that but alas my bank account doesn't always decide to work accordingly along with it ! :-(
. Correct £2060 if you upgrade the whole trip. As I said in post #67 NOT cheap!
There's always Thai Airways standby upgrade option - https://www.thaiairways.com/en_AU/pl...y_airport.page
I did try to order a "pork special meal" on MH once; the request was rather frostily received by the rather cute young man in the London office
London to Bangkok and return upgrade is a minimum of £1700, plus economy ticket say £600. No thanks.
I use Jetradar to search for tickets. If you're brave enough Egyptair is offering a full fare Business Class return in November for £1237, and direct you can get Eva for £2397, not much more than risking no upgrade on Thai as theirs are all standby at the airport. BA is £2669 but Thai is £2825 (for an inferior in-flight experience IMHO - although not quite as bad as "The World's Favourite Airline" which I haven't flown for several years now). If your origin is Bangkok, however, those Business Class prices fall to £1034 on Gulf Air but rise to £2854 on Eva. BA is £2584 and Thai is a whopping £3599
The discussion of Business Class fares is of little interest to the majority of SGT members who have no interest in downgrading from First
IF Only,,,,,who has that amount of spare cash 5555
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