Originally Posted by
skye1
While CX says they consider Marco Polo elite status in "weighting" an upgrade bid, not sure if they consider an equivalent OWE status in that "weighting."
Not sure if the bidding software essentially lowers the minimum offer threshold closer to their "55 hours before departure" cut-off, but I might wait and see......
I believe MPO members only. I haven't seen anything stating that OW elites get any preference.
As far as I've seen, prices don't change as you get closer to departure. The $895 min bid on AKL I mentioned was less than a day prior to T-55 cut-off (basically the same as the 680 GBP you're seeing now).
Originally Posted by
QRC3288
Monitoring this thread is like watching a fascinatingly bizarre science experiment..... what the hell????
These bid prices sound crazy!
And you don't even get extra miles or CP for the upgrade bid? Am I missing something? Why wouldn't you just buy the upfare?
I have literally no idea. The whole thing is being priced poorly. From what I've seen, CX generally has fairly unsophisticated pricing segmentation and they don't appear to do a very good job with maximizing revenue. The fact that their J cabins are often not full shows that they are not good at maximizing incremental revenue. They'd be far better off selling those unsold seats to PE pax for $200-$500 upgrade fees (and in turn selling those vacated PE seats to Y pax for cheap). Instead they do op-ups, which earn nothing. A bit foolish to leave money on the table like that, imo.