A Guide to Air India Business Class Upgrades

If you are a real globetrotter or a frequent traveler then you would understand that how difficult it is to travel every time in the business class. Reason being, flying in business class is real expensive or out of budget.

But airlines like Air India these days are offering a number of proposals, schemes, vouchers to their passengers or points to the frequent flyers.

So, recently Air India has proposed that passengers may enjoy business class  services with the fares kept minimal as economic class by upgrading your economy.

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Upgrading Your Air ticket to Business Class

Basically, the services of the business class on any airline depends upon the availability of the vacant seats.

• Well, speaking of the frequent flyers, if you have collected enough points, always remember that those points are not necessarily enough to upgrade your ticket to the business class, condition being the same, there should enough availability of the vacant seats for sale to buy you one on the behalf of your points.

• You will only be able to upgrade your ticket to business class ticket through voucher or points, in case you make your request in time, when there are enough business class seat available.

• You can earn those frequent flyer points through the type of economy class ticket you purchase. The ticket up-gradation way doesn’t matter at all.

Using Frequent Flyer Points for Up-gradation

As Air India is the member of Global Star Alliance family so, the passengers traveling through are allowed to use those points earned by the frequent flyer from any airline that is the member of the Star Alliance to upgrade to business class.

Also, the number of points needed to upgrade usually varies because of the the different frequent flyer program depending upon the status of the flight.

Hence, you need to get the all the details of the types of the fares you can upgrade from, just before you fly.

In case, you have got enough mile for the upgrade all you need to do is contact the Frequent Flyer program to get your upgrade through Star Alliance.

Buying a Business Class Upgrade at the Airport for Air India

• It is much easier with money to upgrade your ticket and enjoy all benefits provided to business class flyers.
• But in case, you want to upgrade your ticket with those points and vouchers then it will be checked for the availability for the seats.
• If you have updated your ticket by any of the above mentioned method then, the airline will still provide you frequent flyer points according to the fare you paid to purchase the economy class ticket.
• Also consider the case of traveling through connecting flights, then upgrades are only applicable on the last flight or final flight of that day.
• And the paid upgrades are not applicable if you have already used your flyer point to buy your economy ticket. And this thumbrule is applicable to all the airline upgrading services.

Getting Upgrades by Using ‘Flying Returns Premium Club’ Vouchers

Air India provides its passenger with many flying returns vouchers as in you could get a chance to get a complimentary upgrade from  your economy to business class on any Indian flights, be it domestic or international.

There is an availability of the net two upgrade vouchers for the Star Alliance Silver Or Silver Edge Club.

And net three upgrades vouchers for the Maharaja Club Members.

There is total six upgrades available for all the new joinees to the Flying Returns scheme which may rise through the ranks of their basic membership to the club.

The above mentioned are some of the ways that will let you upgrade your economy class ticket to business class ticket. We hope that you would like the information provided above in the post about Air India’s up-gradation rules.