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UA Upsell Offers to Business/First at Purchase and Day of Departure (TOD) [Archive]

Old Sep 15, 2014, 7:52 am
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1st Class Upgrade - NYC to LAS - Only $67??

You lucked out on that. I'm flying TPA-IAH-LAS in January and both flights r wait list only and didn't offer a buy up. I'm a 1K so I'll see what the upgrades r like than. Vegas isn't as popular in winter.
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Old Sep 17, 2014, 12:25 pm
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Route: LGA - ORD
Original Fare bucket: U
Price offered: $59
Upgrade to F
Where offered: At OLCI T-24
Not Accepted
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Old Sep 17, 2014, 3:55 pm
  #1413  
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Originally Posted by ani90
Route: LGA - ORD
Original Fare bucket: U
Price offered: $59
Upgrade to F
Where offered: At OLCI T-24
Not Accepted
Why not? I think I'd've taken it.
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Old Sep 17, 2014, 11:35 pm
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Originally Posted by RNE
Why not? I think I'd've taken it.
I was curious to see how it would play out and thought I will take it later (I checked in on my cell and generally don't like doing financial transactions on mobile). Of course three hours later when I did go on my PC, the upgrade standby list was 29 long - I was surprisingly still 2nd on the upgrade list as had been at 24h - however, the two available F seats were gone so I suppose people did jump on the offer...
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Old Sep 20, 2014, 3:08 pm
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EWR-LHR July 2014
Gold on L Fare
Check-in kiosk (few minutes before check-in closes)
Y to GF for $600
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Old Sep 20, 2014, 3:34 pm
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Originally Posted by kilo
Y to GF for $600
WOW, the not allowed double upgrade

Well, at least they skipped BF where most of us are trying to u/g into

Relatively short hop, but on a redeye I'd be tempted. Did you take it? I'm guessing no.
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Old Sep 20, 2014, 5:43 pm
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Originally Posted by EmailKid
WOW, the not allowed double upgrade

Well, at least they skipped BF where most of us are trying to u/g into

Relatively short hop, but on a redeye I'd be tempted. Did you take it? I'm guessing no.

C was full. (767). But I was still surprised to see such I low offer. Y was not full.


You guessed right about not taking it which in hindsight I felt was the wrong decision. My reason (excuse) were that my last minute Y ticket cost about 3 times as much as the upgrade offer and i had spent a lot on the trip - I quickly decided that I didn't deserve to splash anymore money on myself.

I think if it wasn't that near to closure of check-in, a few more seconds of thinking it through would have resulted in me taking the offer.
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Old Sep 21, 2014, 10:20 am
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9/22/14 -- ATL-EWR
Gold
Fare class: L
Upgrade offer: $79 at online check-in
Declined. Very short flight and no meal service to speak of. It's coded as "refreshments."
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Old Sep 21, 2014, 1:59 pm
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1k
MSY-EWR
Purchased an N fare
Offered buy up for $199.00 on an ER175
Declined
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Old Sep 21, 2014, 2:32 pm
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Originally Posted by jed012788
Very short flight and no meal service to speak of. It's coded as "refreshments."
Probably wouldn't even get the snack box on a flight that short
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Old Sep 21, 2014, 3:24 pm
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9/22/14 -- SNA-SFO
Plat
Fare class: Q
Upgrade offer: $69 at online check-in
Declined. Short flight and, well, it's a CR7.....

After check in ended up at 8th on the UG list and invariably will move down
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Old Sep 25, 2014, 5:45 pm
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Wink Helpppppp!!

Someone, anyone please tell me what these mean..?

Q fare
W fare
H + H upgrade
CPU
L + P
I'm a 1K

.... thanks!
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Old Sep 25, 2014, 5:59 pm
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Originally Posted by xxandra
Someone, anyone please tell me what these mean..?

Q fare
W fare
H + H upgrade
CPU
L + P
I'm a 1K

.... thanks!
You should find most of your answers here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...ster-wiki.html
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Old Sep 25, 2014, 6:08 pm
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Welcome to FT!, xxandra
Originally Posted by xxandra
Someone, anyone please tell me what these mean..?....
yes we do have our own language here.

Suggested starting places, start with the wiki posting of these threads:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...-glossary.html

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...uckets-ua.html

The wiki of http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...ster-wiki.html will give suggestions for threads going into more detail.

Originally Posted by xxandra
...
H + H upgrade
....
L + P
....
these two are unfamiliar to me, if you can provide some context, then someone can fill in the detials.
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Old Sep 25, 2014, 7:10 pm
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9/24, SFO-DEN, 737-800
1K
L fare
check-in via mobile app about T-13
$119
declined, not bad upfare but E+ aisle was fine
ended up #5, completely full F & Y
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