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Old Dec 18, 2010 | 1:16 pm
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Originally Posted by sbm12
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.
To you, they may fit the "rules" of the program - to virtually everyone else, they seem completely random.


Originally Posted by sbm12
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.
Of course it can change - everyone knows airline pricing is dynamic. What would be more logical is for the price of a buy-up to increase the closer you get to departure time - as scarcity generally increases price (assuming the F cabin starts to fill up). When you see the price drop every time you check back, Occam's Razor says it's a desperate attempt to get something, ANYTHING as opposed to giving something away for free.


Originally Posted by sbm12
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.
I'm not doubting your ability to give facts - I commend you on it. Yet every day there seems to be a new factor causing more confusion/frustration - first it's the connecting fare bucket issue, now it's multiple fares in the same fare bucket. Who knows what's next.

Originally Posted by sbm12
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.
Stay classy by the way - the FUD you speak of is clearly already festering in the CO community, and was long before I started spending more time on the forum. When most PPlats say their program is a bust, when you hear tales of countless other Plats questioning the value of their status, and you hear the latest "enhancement" that someone knows we're just gonna love - all the charts and explanations don't do much. But keep defending, it's amusing.
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