Originally Posted by
UA-NYC
Sure - feel free to question a CO Platinum who's been on FT for 10 years. Call me crazy, but I find it hard to doubt his story (as it seems to be replicated daily on FT). It's nothing out of the ordinary - and he gives a rich amount of details actually (different dates, routes, dollar amounts, etc). But you go ahead and deny it if you want.
I'm not denying it. I'm suggesting that it might actually be completely within the real of the rules as they exist in the program rather than completely random.
As a CO Platinum who has also been on FT for 10 years I wonder why you see fit to completely discount the specific and coherent evidence I can offer versus the less specific and coherent "details" of another post.
Can the price of an upgrade change? Absolutely. Generally it is related to whether ZE inventory is available or not rather than some whimsical fancy of CO changing published fares on a day-to-day basis.
Originally Posted by
UA-NYC
It's great that with your advanced tools, you can dig into the minutae of non-stop versus connecting flights, multiple fares in the same bucket, buy-ups to different fare classes depending on status level, etc.
But for the 99.99% of travelers who don't have the time, inclination, and access, they call a spade a spade and wonder why CO acts like a two-bit huckster trying to pry $ out of their wallet up until the plane pulls away from the gate.
Yeah, I guess it is great that I actually understand it and keep explaining it. The fact that you keep suggesting there is no rational explanation and that all the documented facts on offer are irrelevant and offer no insight is sadly misleading and, quite frankly, wrong.
But keep at it. You're certainly helping to forward the level of knowledge here in the community, even if it is just by having me constantly repeat the fact that the FUD you're spewing is wrong.