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Feb 28, 2008 | 11:24 pm

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ak333

Join Date: Aug 2001

Location: Beaverton OR

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Originally Posted by sammyglobal

So let me get this straight

You are saying that for $1,700 over the economy fare they were able to do an upgrade on the spot? Has any one else tried this? Sounds tempting but I would be way to nervous to buy an economy tkt with the hope of getting the same deal at the airport, only to be told that either there are no seats or for you Sam it will be 5K additional

That is more my kind of luck

Do you know how much the economy fare was and is this $1700 one way or round trip?

I thought they paid about $800 or so including taxes. This flight was really wide open in J, even after they upgraded, I counted over 20 empty seats in J.

This was the first CX flight I've been on from SFO in years that had open seats in J, so don't count on it happening too often.

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