I've read a couple of old threads about Qantas Staff Travel to try and work out the upgrade process if Economy is full, there seems to be a couple of different views points on the Onload/Upgrade priority in this situation.
1.Y is full, person holds J or F upgradeable ticket, onload priority is looked at first, then upgrade priority.
2. Y is full, person holds J or F upgradeable ticket, upgrade priority only is used to work out who gets a seat in J.
It seems onload priority is only useful if there are seats in Y.
Can someone confirm this? The process is not explained on the Staff Travel Website.
I have the staff travel online screen up now but it still doesn't say the specifics, if there are J seats available and we have a low priority trip booked but a J15 upgrade and there are no Y seats available and a staff member with a high priority trip with no upgrade booked or too junior to avail themselves of one who gets on?
No one my wife, the staff member works with has a specific answer.
Basically if Y is full who gets J first out of the following:
40Y/J1789 or 41Y/J1594
Assuming both have paid for a J upgrade.
If there is only 1 seat left in J then the 40Y/J1789 would get it as they have the higher onload to get onto the acft first. If there were 2 seats left in J then they both get it.
If there was 1 Y and 1 J left then 40Y would be in Y and 41Y would go to J
Hope it makes some sense. Staff tvl categories are an endless cause of angst
Staff travel who needs it
Unless you are retired staff (30 + years) 
then you are the last on any list !
and are usually treated accordingly ! 
