Originally Posted by
kenmlove
Austrian Airlines have brought in a 'bid for an upgrade' scheme similiar to other airlines. I am flying from London to Bangkok in August for my honeymoon and would love to go business class. We paid £600 each for our return flight and the business class option was £2200 each at the time. We just want to upgrade on the flight out from Vienna to Bangkok. Anyone have any idea of how much we should bid? I was thinking in the region of £600 each. I have researched what people have paid for similiar upgrades on Eithad but their flights were all generally shorter by 2000 miles.
I had a colleague booked in Y on VIE/BKK last year who paid 900 EUR to move from "V" to C for the one leg. 600 GBP should not be too far off. By the way August is usually a good time to get a good deal on upgrades as Y is frequently oversold while C is relatively empty during at least the first 3 weeks of the month due to European holidays.