Are there airlines that offer upgrades on-board?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 29 Jul, 2023
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Air France/KLM allows upgrades on board by speaking to a flight attendant:
UPGRADE LAST MINUTE ON BOARD
You can even upgrade your cabin after boarding, subject to availability.
- Eligible airlines: Air France and KLM marketed and operated flights
- Available payment methods: Miles or just cash
- How to request: on board
The other day Lufthansa was selling Premium Economy upgrades after the door was closed. The price was ridiculous, though, and no one went for it.
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Scoot (Singapore Airlines’ low-cost subsidiary) used to offer paid in-flight upgrades, but this was suspended in June 2020 due to the COVID pandemic.
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Edelweiss allows you to upgrade from Economy to Business after boarding the plane. At least for short-haul flights, subject to seat availability. Payment can be done through credit card or debit card.
This even works, if catering does not allow for the +1 on the manifest, which it normally does. I don’t know if it would work on long-haul flights, since I never found myself in that situation.
Couldn’t find the official confirmation on this. But I’ve done it a couple of times for flights between ZRH and CTA, where buying P/Z/C/D tickets 2-3 hrs beforehand was not possible anymore. Or if I wanted to upgrade a fellow traveler to fly with me.
In the past other airlines allowed me to pay a fixed fee on board to upgrade, but I haven’t really flown with most of them in quite a while.
United allows cabin crew to sell "upgrades" to Economy Plus (not technically an upgrade, since Economy Plus is still the economy class, just with more legroom) from their handheld devices. Source:
If passengers want to upgrade to economy plus during boarding, for example, Bingochea can easily accommodate the request using a proprietary app on his handheld device called Link.
The devices they use take credit cards, same way they sell food and drinks. I’m not sure whether they can do real upgrades to other cabin classes though.
Credit:stackoverflow.com‘
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