Originally Posted by
laxmillenial
Are you booking one ways? Roundtrips? What routings? What "fare classes" are these expensive fares booking into on UA.com? P? Z? D?
Confirmed upgrade space has noticeably decreased as many have pointed out. You just have to be flexible and it seems that you are.
I'll let someone else speculate your other questions as they'll probably have better insight than me.
I am looking for round-trips with 150 day advance purchase in P or Z. These types of fares used to be less than $3,000 from IAH to pretty much any EU destination. Right now, even the P fares are close to $5,000. The only reasonable fares are from the East Coast, but that requires that I break the travel into two separate tickets which has some drawbacks.