Booked a Delta-codeshared flight that is on Virgin Atlantic. I’m Platinum Medallion, but looks like there’s no way to get complimentary upgrade from economy. Any tips?

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You're not going to see an upgrade as DL nor VS give international upgrades, unless you have a GUC or they're oversold.

Even in the case of an oversold flight, they're going to bump up Diamonds and potentially non-revs before you.

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One of three reasons: (1) pilot or staff commuting to work outside of their normal schedule, (2) company benefit, (3) gate agent pulled a favor for their colleague - which this sort of rolls into the second reason as well.

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You won't get a complimentary upgrade most likely.

VA let you bid on upgrades.

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