Originally Posted by
CanRulez
Here's my thinking. Not all SE's fly last minute. In fact, most executives I know have calendars that have been booked weeks, if not months in advance.
Having said that, mathematically it would have been "cheaper" to buy a flex fare, upgrade using your eup credits than pay for J or purchase a latitude fare.
If you're leaving 120 eup credits behind, you've given AC more $ than you should.
Again, this is assuming your business calendar is booked weeks or months in advance.
OPM might be a factor here too and most likely is.
I'm leaving more than 120 eup credits on the table and I have booked my most recent flights 3 weeks out (there) and 5 weeks out (back).
Problem is, they are long flights (Canada - India) so I will book O fare (or Y if cheaper) and use eups to instant secure J if there are P fares still for sale (and the P fare is more than said O or Y).
But if there are no P fares I will skip buying O or Y and just buy the J because I don't want to sit in the back for the long long flight.
So I'm leaving credits on the table because I just don't feel like gambling with J seats on flights that long.