lisakyle

My first post and first successful One Up bid – thanks all for the advice on this forum

No of Pax: 1 (1 Adult)
15th July: NZ2 (AKL-LHR) B77W
Class: Premium Economy -> Business
Status: NZ Gold
Bid: 510 airpoints for AKL-LAX, 540 airpoints for LAX-LHR since not as many seats available on this leg. Indicators were at upper end of weak and my bid was probably a bit higher than needed but I have plenty of airpoints and wanted to ensure I got the OneUp.
Outcome: Accepted, 5 days prior

Based on a dummy booking, BP cabin was about 70%-80% full at 5 days prior and was full on each leg during actual flight.

Airpoints for my premium economy booking at flight+10 days haven’t come through and failed as an unrecognised booking when I tried to add missing airpoints on myairnz. Looks like I need to call the airpoints contact centre. Anyone else had this problem as part of a OneUp?

pbl22

Hi lisakyle. Welcome to FT - that's a good reason for a first post.

I have never done a OneUp bid, but have on a few occasions not had points credit, either automatically or through the manual system. Just ring the prem team and they do it instantly.

PlatinumCat

LAX - AKL - Successful
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Prior to placing the bid I read most of the posts in this thread, a big THANK YOU to everybody who posted here !


No of Pax: 1 ( Adult)
Flight: NZ5 (LAX to AKL)
Class: PE ---> BP (original Fare Class:A)
Status: Star Alliance Gold
Bid: USD 550
Rated: Lower end of Average
Outcome: Accepted -- 6 Days Prior

I did the bidding for my husband.
His ticket was for SFO-LAX-AKL-MEL-AKL-SFO on Air New Zealand,
PE on segments LAX-AKL and AKL-SFO,
Economy on AKL-MEL and MEL-AKL,
paid Exit Row on MEL-AKL ($10) and Preferred Seat ($50) on AKL-SFO.

I called the Calling Center prior to placing the bid and was told that he was already upgraded on the AKL-MEL segment to PE based on his Gold Star Allliance status and the route of his Air New Zealand ticket.

This makes me think that the ratio of bidding seat value to the price paid for the whole ticket might be factored in the algorithm, along with the FF status.

serfty

Note that the Trans tasman PE seats are sold as economy and a *G is quite likely to be allocated one.

Still seat/Seat+bag/Works/Economy/*Delux service though.

Susiew237

class: PE to Business
Status: gold
Bid: 400 apd (without uplift)
Weak from memory
Declined 3 days out but expected that as could see only 3 biz seats available on Expert flyer

BbTrumpet

What route was this?

robbau

HNL to AKL

BbTrumpet

Thanks, I normally only check FT from the iPhone app, which recently got a lousy update that no longer shows the messages titles (among other problems introduced).

robbau

**Cough cough**, they would be called "features," thank you very much.

BbTrumpet

Or "enhancements", in this universe.

nzlilibet

No of Pax: 2 adults
Flight: NZ136 BNE/AKL (777-300) 10 August
Class: Economy -> BP
Status: NZ Silver 1, Koru 2
Bid: NZ $220 (not including silver uplift for 1 pax)
Rated: Weak (upper end)
Outcome: Accepted - 7 days out

LoganNZed

No of Pax: 2 adults
Flight: NZ6 AKL/LAX 4 October
Class: Prem Econ > BP
Status: None
Bid: NZ $750 (airpoints, no uplift)
Rated: Weak (upper end)
Outcome: Declined 3 days out. =(

Liz1968

I paid for works deluxe from Hawaii to NZ and put in a one up bid of $380 - declined

sftraverlered

No of Pax: 1 ( Adult)
Flight: NZ5 (LAX to AKL)
Class: PE ---> BP (original Fare Class:A)
Status: Star Alliance Gold (United)
Bid: USD 550
Rated: Bottom end of Weak ($540 was rated as poor).
Outcome: Accepted -- 6 Days Prior

FlankerLady7

No Of Pax: 1 adult
Flight: NZ135 (AKL-BNE) Boeing 777-300
Class: PE -> BP (paid over $450 on this flight due to Auckland 9s weekend and only available flight was this one at the works deluxe fare)
Status: Airpoints (lowest tier, only recently signed up)
Bid: AUD$140
Rated: Very Weak
Outcome: Declined 3 days prior

Funnily enough I was given a complimentary upgrade to BP the morning of the flight.......