Pro-active Upgrade cost tracking and questions thread
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Jan 1, 15, 3:57 am
#3751
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Just been offered TXL-LHR for £120 in early March. No offer on the outbound yet. Using the c-w-s method:
that should be £100-120 depending on how I'm supposed to measure the cheapest HBO (with/without Sat stay, same or different outbound date to my booked flight). With the same date as my outbound it should be £100, if I compare to outbound a day later, it would be very close to £120.
I'd realistically only be doing it for TP (it's A321, is that "enhanced" CE?), and £4 per point feels like a lot compared to the £69 POUGs I've been offered regularly recently to/from LCY. Methinks it may be better to put that money towards a more productive TP run...
Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave
So using the new CWS POUG Estimation Method (Saturday Night CE return - cheapest HBO divided by 2).
I'd realistically only be doing it for TP (it's A321, is that "enhanced" CE?), and £4 per point feels like a lot compared to the £69 POUGs I've been offered regularly recently to/from LCY. Methinks it may be better to put that money towards a more productive TP run...
Jan 1, 15, 6:30 am
#3752
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Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave
It's not my experience, and I would say I have a fairly hefty slate of flights here. Of my next 30 ET flights coming up, I have POUG offers on 25 of them. Of the 5 without POUG one is soon (but FDH so that may be a special case), the other 4 are the last ones, in March, so some way to go. I seem to have quite a few POUGs thereafter too.
Jan 1, 15, 6:55 am
#3753
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Originally Posted by Genius1
Have you historically (or do you currently) actually POUG these sectors though?
Two of the March flights have now been offered for POUG as of today, for what it is worth.
Last edited by corporate-wage-slave; Jan 1, 15 at 7:12 am
Jan 1, 15, 7:10 am
#3754
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Originally Posted by Oaxaca
that should be £100-120 depending on how I'm supposed to measure the cheapest HBO (with/without Sat stay, same or different outbound date to my booked flight). With the same date as my outbound it should be £100, if I compare to outbound a day later, it would be very close to £120.
Jan 1, 15, 7:41 am
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Originally Posted by Genius1
Hard to say. A POUG may be offered at any time up to and including OLCI, but it's all subject to availability and if you are a serial POUGer, then you may not be offered one at all.
Jan 1, 15, 9:06 am
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Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave
I reckon it's still £120. Viz.: Cheapest CE £321 minus Cheapest HBO £91 = £230, divide by 2 is £115 . I think that's a flat rate given the current cheapest ticket overall within a price period (monthly?), so not necessarily specific to your dates. So if you got a POUG for the outbound I think it would be £115, £119 or £120. If my logic is right it would have been fractionally cheaper to buy 2 singles since the differential is 120
Jan 1, 15, 2:56 pm
#3757
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I am a fairly regular user of these from Euro Traveller to CE. I often do Helsinki which is normally Euro 99. Today I was offered 155 for HEL-LHR in a weeks time. I have had several recent offers that were much higher than I previously received. Beginning to wonder if they are running some program to see how far they can push users like me. Not griping if they are: it's a commercial business after all. Does it halp does anyone think if bookings are made without the Exec # added in initially or are they just raising the prices all round? The prices I get now are typically above my inflection point and frankly, if it gets to the point where I struggle to maintain my BA status, I'd probably start doing a lot more Norwegian, Easyjet, etc.
Jan 1, 15, 3:03 pm
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Originally Posted by brentford77
I often do Helsinki which is normally Euro 99. Today I was offered 155 for HEL-LHR in a weeks time.
Cheapest CE return = 445
Cheapest HBO return = 142
(445-142)/2= 151 - or 155 rounded up. In which case, I rather doubt that adding or not adding your BAEC number would make any difference.
Jan 3, 15, 5:48 am
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