Originally Posted by Cholula
Hi tarmacsitting.....I see your point but it would no longer be a lotto under the system we’ve been discussing here. You book your flight and pay your $X for a confirmed upgrade.Providing it’s available.This works on any fare basis and at any time so you’re just as likely to upgrade a cheapo T fare as the Y fare you’re on this trip. This system will not work well for procrastinators or those booking last minute flights.
Plus if DL could start to see an income stream from their FC cabin, perhaps we’d see some semblance of a cabin we’d actually look forward to sitting in again.
Hmmm, I see your point, too, but assuming we're both "elite" level flyers, and one has paid $250 T Fare, plus $25 upgrade fee and got a first class seat, but the other paid $1200 and could not get a first class seat wouldn't the $1200 person decide to fly UA instead? I don't know if that helps Delta raise revenues.
I don't know that Delta wants to give all of their first class seats away to T fares several months out, and I guess if you impose strict capacity controls then you haven't improve too much.
One thing is for sure, there are no easy answers.