http://www.sixpica.com/blog/2008/06/11/y-is-full-fare-yca-is-not-on-aa/ Getting the most out of your Foreign Service Career Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:43:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.sixpica.com/blog/2008/06/11/y-is-full-fare-yca-is-not-on-aa/comment-page-1/#comment-16 albus999 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:06:41 +0000 http://www.sixpica.com/blog/?p=30#comment-16 Well, to post a success story: following advice from this blog, I was able to upgrade a flight from DC to Atlanta, and more importantly, the 14 hour segment from Atlanta to Dubai on Delta for 25,000 miles and, thankfully, no "co-pay". Luckily, I had some flexibility in travel dates. Before booking the ticket with Carlson Wagonlit, I called Delta and asked for the dates for which they had upgrades available: they only had a few- July 6, July 30th, and August 8th. July 30th was close enough, and after I was ticketed the upgrade was as easy as a 2 minute phone call to Delta. Unfortunately, I only had 25,090 miles to begin with - the lion's share from opening a Delta AE credit card - so I may have to suck up my next flight in the back of the plane. Well, to post a success story: following advice from this blog, I was able to upgrade a flight from DC to Atlanta, and more importantly, the 14 hour segment from Atlanta to Dubai on Delta for 25,000 miles and, thankfully, no “co-pay”. Luckily, I had some flexibility in travel dates. Before booking the ticket with Carlson Wagonlit, I called Delta and asked for the dates for which they had upgrades available: they only had a few- July 6, July 30th, and August 8th. July 30th was close enough, and after I was ticketed the upgrade was as easy as a 2 minute phone call to Delta. Unfortunately, I only had 25,090 miles to begin with – the lion’s share from opening a Delta AE credit card – so I may have to suck up my next flight in the back of the plane.

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