Jan 24, 2014, 7:45 pm
Last edit by: Air Rarotonga
Summary of accepted/rejected bids:
Domestic
VIE
SZG
Shorthaul
AMM
AMS
ARN
BCN
CAI
CDG
DUS
GVA
LHR
KRK
SBZ
SOF
TLV
ZRH
Longhaul
BKK
DEL
DXB
IAD
HKG
EWR
JFK
MIA
MLE
NRT
ORD
YYZ
PVG
Domestic
VIE
- VIE-LNZ 40€ Rejected September 2014
SZG
- SZG-VIE 40€ Rejected September 2014
Shorthaul
AMM
- VIE-AMM 140€ Accepted May 2015
- AMM-VIE 180€ Accepted May 2015
AMS
- AMS-VIE 60€ Accepted January 2015
ARN
- ARN-VIE 85€ Rejected April 2015
BCN
- VIE-BCN 50€ Rejected September 2014 (Checkin offer, red upgrade 129€)
CAI
- VIE-CAI 55€ Rejected October 2014
- CAI-VIE 55€ Rejected October 2014
CDG
- CDG-VIE 100€ Rejected June 2015
DUS
- DUS-VIE 110€ Accepted July 2015
- DUS-VIE 50 € Rejected July 2015 (although C was only 2/12)
- VIE-DUS 50 € Rejected July 2015
GVA
- VIE-GVA 140€ Accepted February 2015
- VIE-GVA 150€ Rejected August 2015
LHR
- LHR-VIE €150 Accepted September 2016
KRK
- VIE-KRK 75€ Rejected January 2015
- VIE-MXP 85€ Accepted August 2017
SBZ
SOF
- SOF-VIE 90€ Accepted December 2015
TLV
- TLV-VIE 50€ Rejected January 2014
- TLV-VIE 65€ Rejected October 2014
- TLV-VIE 105 USD Rejected September 2015
ZRH
- VIE-ZRH 150€ Rejected August 2014
- VIE-ZRH 120€ Rejected August 2014
- ZRH-VIE 150€ Accepted January 2015
- ZRH-VIE 120€ Accepted December 2015
- VIE-ZRH 120€ Accepted August 2014
- ZRH-VIE 140€ check-in offer - June 2018 (did not buy it)
Longhaul
BKK
- VIE-BKK 520€ Accepted August 2013
- VIE-BKK 350€ Accepted August 2013
- BKK-VIE 250€ Rejected September 2013
- VIE-BKK 160€ Rejected November 2013
- VIE-BKK 315€ Rejected September 2014
- BKK-VIE 360€ Rejected December 2014
- VIE-BKK 300€ Rejected March 2015
- BKK-VIE 305€ Rejected April 2015
- BKK-VIE 405€ Rejected May 2015
- BKK-VIE 407€ Accepted May 2015
- BKK-VIE 435€ Accepted November 2015
- BKK-VIE 455€ Accepted December 2015
- VIE-BKK 450€ Accepted January 2016
- VIE-BKK 300€ Rejected May 2016
DEL
- VIE-DEL 330€ Accepted June 2014
DXB
- VIE-DXB 270€ Accepted September 2014
IAD
- IAD-VIE 300€ Accepted September 2013
- IAD-VIE 365€ Accepted October 2013
- VIE-IAD 330€ Rejected November 2013
- IAD-VIE 320€ Rejected November 2013
- VIE-IAD 410€ Accepted January 2014
- IAD-VIE 370€ Accepted January 2014
- IAD-VIE 380€ Accepted August 2014
- VIE-IAD 430€ Accepted August 2014
- VIE-IAD 370€ Accepted October 2014
- VIE-IAD 320€ Accepted November 2014
- IAD-VIE 320€ Accepted November 2014
- VIE-IAD 410€ Accepted March 2015
- IAD-VIE 310€ Accepted March 2015
- VIE-IAD 500€ Accepted May 2015
- IAD-VIE 500€ Rejected May 2015
- IAD-VIE 340€ Rejected July 2015
- IAD-VIE 340€ Rejected July 2015
- IAD-VIE 420€ Rejected October 2015
- VIE-IAD 450€ Accepted October 2017
HKG
- HKG-VIE 300€ Accepted December 2016
- HKG-VIE 310€ Accepted February 2017 x4
- HKG-VIE 200€ Accepted May 2017 x2
EWR
- VIE-EWR 300€ Accepted September 2014
- EWR-VIE 495€ Accepted May 2017
JFK
- JFK-VIE 370€ Accepted November 2013
- VIE-JFK 330€ Rejected November 2013
- VIE-JFK 520€ Rejected December 2013
- JFK-VIE 300€ Accepted September 2014
- VIE-JFK 500€ Rejected December 2015
- JFK-VIE 325€ Accepted December 2015
- VIE-JFK 250€ Rejected January 2016
MIA
- VIE-MIA 420€ Accepted February 2016
- MIE-VIE 320€ Accepted March 2016
MLE
- MLE-VIE 370€ Rejected January 2014
NRT
- VIE-NRT 520€ Accepted February 2016
ORD
- ORD-VIE 300€ Accepted August 2013
- ORD-VIE 270€ Accepted October 2014
- ORD-VIE 350€ Rejected November 2014
- VIE-ORD 310€ Accepted January 2015
- ORD-VIE 380€ Accepted September 2015
- VIE-ORD 380€ Accepted September 2015
YYZ
- VIE-YYZ 350€ Accepted September 2014
- YYZ-VIE 320€ Accepted February 2015
- VIE-YYZ 355€ Accepted October 2017 x2
- VIE-PEK 300€ Accepted September 2015
- VIE-PEK 220€ Rejected March 2015
- PEK-VIE 250€ Accepted March 2015
PVG
- VIE-PVG €310 Accepted August 2016
- PVG-VIE €310 Accepted August 2016
- VIE-PVG €510 Accepted September 2016
Austrian Bid Upgrade using Plusgrade
Sep 10, 2013, 3:23 pm
#46
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: YXY
Posts: 3,506
In such a situation, I would expect the offer only to be accepted if it is significantly higher. OS wants people to buy Business in the first place, and not book Eco and then upgrade for less.
Sep 16, 2013, 9:54 pm
#49
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: DCA
Programs: TK*G OZ*G AA Plat
Posts: 627
Made a lowball offer of $405 for IAD-VIE next week. Looking at the seating chart, there are lots of open seats in Eco so I don't expect they'll take me up on it anyway. I don't mind too much being in the back if the seat next to me is vacant at least.
Sep 23, 2013, 2:19 am
#51
Moderator: Lufthansa Miles & More, India based airlines, India, External Miles & Points Resources
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: MUC
Programs: LH SEN
Posts: 48,158
It seems OS has so fare made 6000+ upgrades using the system and are very surprised what high bids people put in.
Sep 23, 2013, 10:32 am
#52
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 209
I offered $750 for an upgrade to J on the VIE-YYZ service on October 22nd, the flight is operated by a 767.
Can anyone give me any feedback as to A) If you think the price i offered is too high, or too low, and B) what are my chances, given your previous experience with this or similar VIE-N.A. routes?
Thanks.
(I know my questions are quite vague)
Can anyone give me any feedback as to A) If you think the price i offered is too high, or too low, and B) what are my chances, given your previous experience with this or similar VIE-N.A. routes?
Thanks.
(I know my questions are quite vague)
Cheapest ticket on Austrian.com is 730 Eur, your offer 555*2 = 1840 EUR.
BA more epxensive but those are J and I tickets and it is guaranteed to be a business.
Austrian is a bit cheaper, direct flight, P ticket and you might get stuck in Y
Last edited by makos; Sep 23, 2013 at 10:50 am
Sep 23, 2013, 11:13 am
#54
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 272
Hence, less than one person has been upgraded per flight. Which could mean that biz is full anyway all the time or that people are actually not offer enough or not aware of the program.
Considering the cost for the program (marketing, IT, manual (at least partial) clearance) I don't know how profitable it is (or how required it is in case biz is full anyway).
Sep 24, 2013, 3:21 am
#56
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: VCE
Posts: 14,165
6000 upgrades is not a lot. The scheme now runs for approx 180 days, making it about 33 upgrades a day. It is available on all long-range flights as well as on flights from and to Amman, Astana, Baghdad, Baku, Erbil, Cairo, Tel Aviv, Tripoli and Yerevan -> I didn't count but that must be more than 33 flights a day.
Hence, less than one person has been upgraded per flight. Which could mean that biz is full anyway all the time or that people are actually not offer enough or not aware of the program.
Considering the cost for the program (marketing, IT, manual (at least partial) clearance) I don't know how profitable it is (or how required it is in case biz is full anyway).
Hence, less than one person has been upgraded per flight. Which could mean that biz is full anyway all the time or that people are actually not offer enough or not aware of the program.
Considering the cost for the program (marketing, IT, manual (at least partial) clearance) I don't know how profitable it is (or how required it is in case biz is full anyway).
Sep 24, 2013, 8:32 am
#57
Join Date: Dec 2006
Programs: LH SEN, FB Plat., HH D.
Posts: 5,050
and taking in consideration that probably less than 10% of the 6000 Smart Upgrades were customers that would have bought, originally, a biz class ticket, it is indeed not bad.
Sep 24, 2013, 8:37 am
#58
Join Date: Dec 2006
Programs: LH SEN, FB Plat., HH D.
Posts: 5,050
I guess customers based their bid in the price they pay for they eco ticket vs a cheap biz class ticket and probably OS is ready to accept a smaller premium for the unsold tickets in C.
Last edited by more4less; Sep 25, 2013 at 3:48 am Reason: typo
Oct 8, 2013, 9:38 am
#59
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 57,560
My son bid $500US for IAD-VIE and it was accepted. Since his employer paid for his Y ticket, he wasn't concerned about his bed possibly being high.
He flew yesterday, and when I sent him an e-mail asking how the flight went, his response was "I'm not sure how I will ever fly coach on a transatlantic flight again."
He flew yesterday, and when I sent him an e-mail asking how the flight went, his response was "I'm not sure how I will ever fly coach on a transatlantic flight again."
Oct 8, 2013, 9:57 am
#60
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: DCA
Programs: TK*G OZ*G AA Plat
Posts: 627
My son bid $500US for IAD-VIE and it was accepted. Since his employer paid for his Y ticket, he wasn't concerned about his bed possibly being high.
He flew yesterday, and when I sent him an e-mail asking how the flight went, his response was "I'm not sure how I will ever fly coach on a transatlantic flight again."
He flew yesterday, and when I sent him an e-mail asking how the flight went, his response was "I'm not sure how I will ever fly coach on a transatlantic flight again."