Do you know anyone that works for BA?

[arfur]

tuffer said:

arfur said:

Greg66 said:

Sorry to say, but I wouldn't get your hopes up. That route is busy, and busy with people who are prepared to pay ££ to sit in the big seats. In general to be in the running for an upgrade, you need to have an economy cabin that is overbooked and higher cabins that are underbooked. Then the movement starts. Movement is generally one cabin though, and those at the front of the queue are travellers with the best frequent flyer status with that airline, followed by those who've paid full fare for their ticket (vs discounted).

Getting a BA employee to mark your booked as SFU (suitable for upgrade) is a big ask. That's something that is considered a disciplinary offence in BA.

As has been said, if you know someone who is staff, they may be able to source you a staff ticket in a nice seat, but that is likely to be standby. Wouldn't fancy waiting for a spare seat on a busy route like that meself.

For future reference, get yourself a BA American Express card, a Tesco Visa, membership of the BA Exec Club, 200 BA shares and start reading about how to use BA miles on the BA forum on Flyertalk.

Using a BA Amex or Virgin Amex and putting your whole monthly spend on it generates enough each year for upgrades and free flights ... I run about 3.5k a month through Virgin until I have the 4 x upgrades and 1 x Free and then switch to BA Amex for the rest of the year for roughly the same freebies. On top of these, there are of course the miles .... and they do add up, and YES you can combine them with the reward upgrades

Arf

And even with all of that you will struggle to get a "miles" seat on the Mauritius flight.....I know, I try every year.

Admittedly I am using these on the Barbados route usually .... Never been a problem so far