Originally Posted by
paulwuk
Great, mr sky scanner books his flight for £300 return and a £10 auction and gets bumped up to WTP.
I turn up at t-3 days trying to book the ticket for £2500 and find there's no availability (which often happens, I'm wait listed most of the time nowadays, even with lots of notice. Makes a mockery of flex tickets).
Even if I do get a seat or £2500, the cabin is full fog the sky scanner lot, and the leisure flyers on £600 return bid £100 to upgrade and get it.
I think there are two issues here
a) I would think the auction upgrade only happens once check in is closed, it does not take away inventory before then.
b) the idea that more expensive tickets are more worthy of op-ups rather than cheap ones is used by some other airlines. Lufthansa for example. To the degree that even senator (gold) card holders on a cheap ticket are ignored in favour of non status passengers on higher economy fares. That has generated lots of discussion:
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