FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - LCA-DXB upgrade offered 2300€ Y to C, insane for 3 hour flight!
Old May 29, 2023 | 6:09 am
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DYKWIA
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Originally Posted by thijsseh
As I have recently said in a number of threads here, those 'special offers' which you get via email a few days before your flight are only 'special' in that they are - crudely put - rip offs.
Not necessarily. £650 for UK-DXB is still reasonable value IMO. If you've paid £500 for Y return, and get offers both ways, then it's £1800 total. About £1300 less than the current J saver fare (MAN-DXB).

Not as good as the £450 offers from pre-pandemic days obviously.
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