Originally Posted by
Fragola
I phoned UL's toll free US number, which then transferred me to the Canadian number and according to them my flight has the lie flats. However we had some communication problem so I'm not completely convinced.
Upon rechecking the bid website, the minimum bid for my flight starts at $350 USD and goes up to $800. The bid meter indicates $550 as a "good" bid. The difference in cash fare for that one way flight is approximately $250. Fares don't seem to change for the next few months ahead.
So it seems the upgrade is not worth even the minimum bid because I could have technically purchased the upgraded fare for less...however not sure if I could have mixed business and economy fares for my other segments on the same ticket.
pmaclell - did you have a minimum required bid?
Update: So I ended up NOT getting the upgrade.
At T - 8 days the bid meter dropped the required minimum to $300 with no way of manually entering a different (lower) amount on the sliding scale.
The actual flight was delayed over 1 hour. I could not get a look at the business class seats to confirm whether or not they were actual lie flats because it was cordoned off with a separate jet bridge. On the first segment only a few of the the economy section seat back screens seemed to work. On the second segment they were all shut down completely. The delay resulted in an escorted transfer for a group of 10 of us at HGK onto the Air Canada flight which meant my checked bag did not make the connection.
So, had I gotten the upgrade, there would have been no time for the lounge, (likely) no AV system plus no luggage either
