{"id":429099,"date":"2026-05-16T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/moms-awkward-onboard-request-flight-attendant-handled-perfectly\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T07:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:00:20","slug":"this-moms-awkward-onboard-request-the-flight-attendant-who-handled-it-perfectly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=429099","title":{"rendered":"This Mom&#8217;s Awkward Onboard Request &amp; The Flight Attendant Who Handled It Perfectly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most asked questions asked by passengers to <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"88157\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/flight-attendants\/\"  >flight attendants<\/a><\/span> is whether they can upgrade. Usually, it is only the check-in staff that can upgrade a passenger, and even then, they must have loyalty points or miles or pay for the upgrade. If travel is for a special occasion, the check-in staff may upgrade if there is a spare seat, but it is rare. The only other time an upgrade is offered is if a flight is oversold in economy and there are spare seats. In this case, business class meals and amenities are not offered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning the situation around with kindness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,496,675,49,466],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-cabin-crew","category-flight-attendant","category-passenger","category-upgrade"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429100,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429099\/revisions\/429100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}