Originally Posted by DiverDave

Actually it was $1000, not $1000s which would mean thousands (plural). If I've asked you once, I've asked you a million times - please don't exaggerate!

OP said October, so I randomly picked the 13th and the 20th and looked.

Lowest Biz class fare on those dates at continental.com is $3626 with taxes and fees. That is a Z fare. I looked at the restrictions (for which I had to enter the values of one of those text images to even get to see it. How weird is that???) That's a non-refundable ticket with $400 change fee.

Delta's M fare on those dates is $3016 with taxes and fees. Non-refundable with $250 change fee.

Perhaps the OP was using different dates, and of course I am way to lazy to bother to see if upgrade inventory is available.

Anyway, doing my famous :-: BEST IN CLASS :-: math, $3626 minus $3016 is (drum roll please) Delta's M $610 cheaper than Continental's Z fare.

Astounding!

Changing the Delta search to bring up I fares resulted in a total of $3838.80, non-refundable with $400 change fee. So in that case it costs $212 plus change to fly the unfriendly skies in paid business class.

Note to remedy: Bad form to include the name of the representative in your post, suggest you edit that out.

David