Originally Posted by
klavkonz
I will be flying SK936 SFO-CPH this Friday and wondering if I should update my bid from Plus to Business. My original bid was made when the minimum bid was at 450USD, but now it's risen to 580USD. Based on the results upthread, I was going to hold with my current bid even though it's noted as being below the current minimum amount, but with SK indicating only 6 seats left (ExpertFlyer is showing 14 unselected seats, so I'm assuming 8 people just haven't paid to select their seats), it doesn't seem likely that there will be many unsold seats when check-in starts. Worth upping the bid now or wait until T-30 hrs to see what the actual seat availability looks like?
Here is what I would do (note: there is no one right answer and I maintain SAS has a logic to what they do, but they don't share it). Other people will probably have a different experience and that's okay as there is some randomness to all of this and YMMV.
SAS closes out the bidding entirely at T-6. So generally speaking, everything is open until that time. You can keep your bid and monitoring what is happening. SAS won't retract your bid, you'll just likely lose the bid unless something else happens (status impact, business decision by SAS, etc).
What I have sometimes seen is that SAS makes some initial upgrade decisions at around T-24 if your bid is deemed high enough and acceptable to SAS. Anything not allocated at that time goes to Live Bidding / Auction. When there is low inventory in business, I have also seen them go directly to Live Bidding.
Let us know how it turns out. Good luck!