Optiontown.com paid upgrades on SAS

[THD]

No on both accounts jackylek. Availability wide open.

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CPH  Copenhagen Kastrup DK [EKCH]
BKK  Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Intl TH [VTBS]
SAT  08 Sep 2012

Carrier    Flight  From  Depart    To    Arrive    A/C  St  Availability
---------  ------  ----  --------  ----  --------  ---  --  --------------------------------------------------------------
SK         973     CPH   22:50     BKK   14:45     343      A0 C9 D9 J9 Z9 R0 Y9 S9 B9 E9 M9 H9 Q9 V9 W9 U0 K9 L9 T9 G9 N0

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BKK  Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Intl TH [VTBS]
CPH  Copenhagen Kastrup DK [EKCH]
SAT  15 Sep 2012

Carrier    Flight  From  Depart    To    Arrive    A/C  St  Availability
---------  ------  ----  --------  ----  --------  ---  --  --------------------------------------------------------------
SK         972     BKK   00:25     CPH   06:35     343      A0 C9 D3 J0 Z0 R0 Y9 S9 B9 E9 M9 H9 Q9 V9 W9 U0 K9 L9 T9 G9 N0

[clipper27]

Confirmed upgrade M -> Z on SK907 OSL-EWR tomorrow, August 23rd. Received new e-ticket from SK in the mail this morning.

Still listed as "pending" on OT website though - but more the norm that I first get the upgraded e-ticket and a couple of hours later the notification from Optiontown.
(Last time I actually did not get the upgrade notification from either SK or OT until landing in CPH, but received a nice surprise when checking into the flight at LAX and receiving a Z ticket on the ORD-CPH leg).

Success rate 4/5 so far since October. Three in Z and one in Y. Happy flying everybody!

[Insomnia4u]

Just an update on my previous post regarding CPH-BKK t/r. Got upgraded to business both times, and got the confirmation a couple of days before. The only problem flying business is to go back to economy again, especially on long haul since that´s an 11 hour flight, and it´s a big difference in standard and space.

I presume eco was oversold both times, and I know that it have been cancellations on other long haul flights, so maybe that was (one) of the reasons. So now I have got upgraded 4 out of 10 flights.

[gnaget]

I tried CPH-NRT. I was rejected about 36 hours before flight. In the end, I think there was only a few empty seats in M. I upgraded to Y with points. 8 empty seats there. The gate agent told me that Japanese groups cause these flights to be very uncertain and that the flight was going out with only 20 empty seats.

I was the only M-Y upgrader because the seatmap was exactly the same as the last check on Expertflyer about 48 hours before. In M there was about 60 unoccupied seats according to EF. At online check-in window it was down to about 20.

[esims]

I just paid for an optiontown upgrade and see someting weird when looking at my booking on optiontown.com: I am flying outbound with LX (osl - zrh - pek) with booking class M and inbound with SAS (where I did the optiontown uto). The LX portion of the flight reads "Cabin - business". Is this a known optiontown bug? (When looking at checkmytrip my ticket still reads M class and economy on the outbound flight). I am EBG, btw.

[jfidler]

Not sure this warrants a new thread, but OV just announced you can use OT's empty seat option. It's 1 EUR service fee and 4 EUR for the empty seat:

http://estonian-air.ee/en/travel-inf...ht/empty-seat/

I typically fly OV on the CPH-TLL route which is about 1.5 hours. I'm not sure I'd make use of this offer, since the flight is short and I don't mind the current seats for that flight.

On the other hand 5 EUR isn't much to pay. I wonder how much OV and OT plan to make out of this. OV probably makes more money selling 2 drinks on the flight than through this.

[view]

Originally Posted by jfidler

Not sure this warrants a new thread, but OV just announced you can use OT's empty seat option. It's 1 EUR service fee and 4 EUR for the empty seat:

http://estonian-air.ee/en/travel-inf...ht/empty-seat/

I typically fly OV on the CPH-TLL route which is about 1.5 hours. I'm not sure I'd make use of this offer, since the flight is short and I don't mind the current seats for that flight.

On the other hand 5 EUR isn't much to pay. I wonder how much OV and OT plan to make out of this. OV probably makes more money selling 2 drinks on the flight than through this.

Actually, that is rather clever I think. Here they try to charge for seats that will go out empty anyway, even though the fee is nominal it is better than no income for the empty seat (from the airline point of view).

[ILS2]

Originally Posted by view

Actually, that is rather clever I think. Here they try to charge for seats that will go out empty anyway, even though the fee is nominal it is better than no income for the empty seat (from the airline point of view).

...and with that, all hope of any EBG seat blocking goes out the window.

[view]

Originally Posted by ILS2

...and with that, all hope of any EBG seat blocking goes out the window.

Not like that has ever worked! I have given up all hope since long ago... I just keep getting disappointed. LH manages seat blocking though..

[gakke]

Originally Posted by esims

I just paid for an optiontown upgrade and see someting weird when looking at my booking on optiontown.com: I am flying outbound with LX (osl - zrh - pek) with booking class M and inbound with SAS (where I did the optiontown uto). The LX portion of the flight reads "Cabin - business". Is this a known optiontown bug? (When looking at checkmytrip my ticket still reads M class and economy on the outbound flight). I am EBG, btw.

Optiontown marks flights that it can't upgraded as business. I think that it was a lazy programmer's simple solution for the task "block flights that can't be upgraded".

[KroFlyer]

Received new e-ticket this morning (50 hours prior to departure) for SK907 on Saturday. Upgraded Y to C. All fare classes have been zeroed out since the beginning of September. Paid €156+5 for the upgrade. All of my Uto upgrades have cleared in the 10 or so times I've used it over the past 2 years.

[fqtvcph]

Hi.
Are there anybody who paid for upgrade from M to Z on CPH-PVG. Currently, optiontown says 336 euro ex. sign-up fee on my travel date.

I have before tried upgrades on CPH-PEK and CPH-NRT, the prices are usually 285 euro ex. sign-up fee.

336 euro is the standard price for CPH-PVG, or it is because of the dates I flies on?

Thanks for your help!

[KroFlyer]

Just was informed that my upgrade from Y to C for tomorrow's SK910 flight was not upgraded. Very disappointed. This is the first time my Uto did not clear in the past 2+ years I've been using optiontown. I did notice that C was zeroed out earlier today, but Y still had 3 or 4 available tix left. I guess its a heavy day tomorrow in C and hence my upgrade was not approved. I love how optiontown still says "The more you sign-up for UTo, the higher are chances to get upgraded. So keep participating in UTo." Obviously this is a cheap sales tactic.

I was really looking forward to bashing SAS's new longhaul C product (as of Oct 1st), especially since on my OSL-EWR flight last week I was VDB'd to UA39 and enjoyed their superior BusinessFirst service - on a 757 no less..... Guess I'll have to wait until the holidays.

[HenrikP]

Originally Posted by KroFlyer

Just was informed that my upgrade from Y to C for tomorrow's SK910 flight was not upgraded. Very disappointed. This is the first time my Uto did not clear in the past 2+ years I've been using optiontown. I did notice that C was zeroed out earlier today, but Y still had 3 or 4 available tix left. I guess its a heavy day tomorrow in C and hence my upgrade was not approved. I love how optiontown still says "The more you sign-up for UTo, the higher are chances to get upgraded. So keep participating in UTo." Obviously this is a cheap sales tactic.

I was really looking forward to bashing SAS's new longhaul C product (as of Oct 1st), especially since on my OSL-EWR flight last week I was VDB'd to UA39 and enjoyed their superior BusinessFirst service - on a 757 no less..... Guess I'll have to wait until the holidays.

How many times have you been upgraded?

[hbush]

Originally Posted by KroFlyer

Just was informed that my upgrade from Y to C for tomorrow's SK910 flight was not upgraded. Very disappointed.

That's always kind of gambling with Optiontown Don't be too disappointed - at least you didn't loose anything (except small transaction fee) so it's very safe gambling. On average during several years I have had Optiontown upgrades about two thirds of flights when I had asked for them. I still see this as very good result! Most gamblers in Las Vegas would be excited to play with no losses and significantly more than 50% wins