Originally Posted by
aster
In the era of bidding $$$ for upgrades... are voucher-holders basically last in line to have their upgrades cleared? Surely on many (especially long-haul) flights people will at least place a minimum bid in the hope that this goes through, which makes me wonder what then happens to voucher upgrade requests...
Lufthansa obviously prefers cash upgrades, either fixed price or bid, over voucher/miles upgrades.
But not everyone knows about bidding. There might be enough spare inventory for all upgrade types. Sometimes the minimum bid is too high to be attractive.
I've even had a bid rejected at T-60h, called up to waitlist a miles upgrade and had the mileage upgrade clear about 12 hours later. 🤷♂️