Kvet01
Mar 26, 12, 1:09 am
It would be good to know how the new rules work out. Flew today PRG-AMS on the redeye, on of the routes more heavily frequented by company sponsored commuters - lots of Golds/Plats. Outside of the July/August holiday season always crammed to the brim with upgraded passengers. Today: 6 passengers for 14 seats in C - at least 4 upgrades. So either not too many people are using their points for the upgrades, or not too many people travel with tickets in upgradeable fare buckets (T,K,H,B,M,Y - in that order from low to high).
Strange thing that happened to me today: I have a ticket (L,L) so both legs in a non-upgradeable fare bucket. The next fare bucket is the upgradeable class T. Strangely enough, though L was (and at the moment of writing still is) listed as available on the Internet, the call center agent could only offer me class K - a CZK 3000 upgrade. I explicitly asked for T but the agent told me that was not a bucket that was available to book on my flight (a simple return originating from PRG).
General question: is it possible that a higher fare bucket for the same cabin class can actually sell out before a lower fare bucket in the same cabin class is sold out? Or is this a ruse employed by CSA to actually make upgrades prohibitively expensive, also for their own frequent travellers?
Strange thing that happened to me today: I have a ticket (L,L) so both legs in a non-upgradeable fare bucket. The next fare bucket is the upgradeable class T. Strangely enough, though L was (and at the moment of writing still is) listed as available on the Internet, the call center agent could only offer me class K - a CZK 3000 upgrade. I explicitly asked for T but the agent told me that was not a bucket that was available to book on my flight (a simple return originating from PRG).
General question: is it possible that a higher fare bucket for the same cabin class can actually sell out before a lower fare bucket in the same cabin class is sold out? Or is this a ruse employed by CSA to actually make upgrades prohibitively expensive, also for their own frequent travellers?