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Old Sep 10, 2012 | 8:46 pm
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Originally Posted by bhatnasx
Is Amtrak no longer allowing upgrades on low fares? I booked a $49 NYP-WAS ticket about a month ago for travel today and called to upgrade using a H121 certificate (the cert you get when you cash out 10k points for upgrades).

The agent told me that $49 fare are the lowest advance booking fares and don't allow for upgrades. Hung up and called back again & second agent told me the same thing.

When did this change? I've upgraded at least 6 trips, most at the $49 fare.

They wanted me to pay a fare of $136 to get the right to upgrade. At that rate, I may as well have booked the Acela using my corporate discount for $100!

Anyone else run into this or am I just dealing with 2 misinformed agents?
Wow - you get a corporate discount of $100 per Acela ticket?? That's awesome! I've heard of vendor negotiated discounts for airfare along the Eastern corridor but not for the Acela.
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