Jan 3, 2015, 4:45 am
Last edit by: TravellerFrequently
2015 POUG rate tracker
Please add your own successful results to the follow list including the month/year when the POUG was offered to you.
POUGs are offered via BA.com and the App Manage My Booking via a distinctive banner. You cannot get a POUG by telephoning, however the service centres can complete a POUG which falls over mid transaction. They are offered on cash and Avios redemptions but typically not on complex routings, BA Holidays or travel agency bookings until OLCI stage. POUGs on Avios redemptions won't get you additional TPs/Avios, but they will on revenue tickets.
Short haul routes from LON to/from Europe
A price in pounds indicates a ticket issued from London, other currencies indicate prices for tickets issued overseas (e.g. singles or returns originating from CDG priced in Euros). Multiple prices indicate a range of fares are on offer. Note that LCY prices currently seem to be on a different basis to LGW and LHR (cheaper, in other words).
Long haul routes from LON to North America
(price shown from lower cabin to mentioned cabin, e.g. WTP means price to POUG from WT to WTP):
Long haul routes from LON to South America
(price shown from lower cabin to mentioned cabin, e.g. WTP means price to POUG from WT to WTP):
Long haul routes from LON to Asia
(price shown from lower cabin to mentioned cabin, e.g. WTP means price to POUG from WT to WTP):
Long haul routes from LON to Australia and Oceania
(price shown from lower cabin to mentioned cabin, e.g. WTP means price to POUG from WT to WTP):
Long haul routes from LON to Africa and Middle East
(price shown from lower cabin to mentioned cabin, e.g. WTP means price to POUG from WT to WTP):
Long haul routes to LON
(price shown from lower cabin to mentioned cabin, e.g. WTP means price to POUG from WT to WTP):
POUG terms and conditions can be found by clicking here.
Please add your own successful results to the follow list including the month/year when the POUG was offered to you.
POUGs are offered via BA.com and the App Manage My Booking via a distinctive banner. You cannot get a POUG by telephoning, however the service centres can complete a POUG which falls over mid transaction. They are offered on cash and Avios redemptions but typically not on complex routings, BA Holidays or travel agency bookings until OLCI stage. POUGs on Avios redemptions won't get you additional TPs/Avios, but they will on revenue tickets.
Short haul routes from LON to/from Europe
A price in pounds indicates a ticket issued from London, other currencies indicate prices for tickets issued overseas (e.g. singles or returns originating from CDG priced in Euros). Multiple prices indicate a range of fares are on offer. Note that LCY prices currently seem to be on a different basis to LGW and LHR (cheaper, in other words).
- ACE – £119 (May 2015)
- AGP – £99/€119 (Dec 2014) £179 (July 2015)
- AMS - £109 (LHR Dec 2015 - both ways for Jan 2016), £69 for LCY (Jan 2015), €89 to LGW both ways (Jul 2015) £79 from LGW (May 2015), €90 to LHR (May 2015)
- AMS - £79 (Jan 2015) ex LGW - return also offered
- ANE - €79 (Mar 2015) to LCY
- ARN - £105 / LHR-ARN B767 (Mar 2015) £72 LHR-ARN (May 2015)
- ATH - £109 (Oct 2014) / £179 (Jan 15), £160 (Apr 2015), €280 to LHR (May 2015)
- BCN – €139 (Jan 2015) £89 (Feb 2015 LHR-BCN) £115 (Apr 2015 BCN-LHR), £89 (Apr 2015 LGW)
- BGO - £75 and £65 (Jan 2015 and Apr 2015)
- BOD - £104 from HBO (Feb 2015)
- BRI - £119 / €144 (Dec 2014)
- BRU - £105 (Feb 2015) /£120 (March 2015) /€135 (Jan 2015) / £115 (Jun 2015)
- BSL - CHF120 (Dec 2014) / CHF190 (Sep 2015)
- BUD - £89 also £105 (Dec 2014) and £120 (Jan 2015)
- CDG - €115 (Dec 2014), £75 (Mar 2015) £99 (April 2015), £80 (Jul 2015). £89 (Dec 2015)
- CMF - £69 (Dec 2014) Note LCY.
- CPH - £129 (Nov 2014) £125 (Jan 2015) 950 DKK (£95 - Jul 2015), £159 (Apr 2015), £120 (May 2015)
- CTA - £119/€144 (Dec 2014 and June 2015)
- DBV - £89 LGW (Nov 2015)
- DUB – €119 (to LHR, Dec 2015), £80 and £95 LHR (Jan & Mar 2015) £99 (Nov 2014); £95 LCY (Jan 2015), £80 LCY (Mar 2015), £105 (Apr 2015), €105 (to LHR, June 2015), £115 (LHR, Jun/Jul 2015)
- DUS - €125 (Jan 2015) €79 to LCY (Apr 2015) £69 to LCY (May 2015)
- FCO - £170 (Dec 2014) / €155 LHR & €109 LGW (Mar 2015), £155 (Apr 2015)
- FRA - €145 (to LHR, Dec 2015), £105 (Jan 2015) £109 (Nov 2015)
- GIB - £140 Dec 2014)
- GOT – £90 (Jan 2015) £79 (Nov 2014), SEK 990/GBP 76 (Oct 2015)
- GVA - £79/£89 (Nov 2014) £105 (Jan 2015) £120 (May 2015 from HBO) £105 both ways (05/15)
- HAM - £90 both ways (Jan 2015) £79 both ways (Sep 15 from HBO)
- HEL – €155 back (Dec 2014) £130 (July 2015, HEL-LHR)
- INN – £89/€109 back (Dec 2014)
- IST - £130 both ways (May 2015) £150 (May 2015, IST-LHR)
- JER - £99 (Jan 2015), £79 (Mar 2015), £79 (Oct 2015), £79 (Nove 2015)
- LCA – £210 (Feb2015)
- LED - £189 (Oct 2015)
- LIN – £175 (Jan 2015), £189 (Nov 2015)
- LIS – £80/£119/£145 (Nov 2014 / Dec 2014), £145 (Jul 2015 & Jan 2016)
- LPA - €125 back to LHR (May 2015)
- LUX - £120 offered to LHR (Feb 2015)
- MAD - £110 to LHR (Mar 2015 from HBO), £75 exLHR (June 2015), €89 MAD-LCY-MAD for Oct 2015
- MAH - £69 (Apr 2015). Note LCY.
- MLA - €154 (Jan 2015), €119 (Oct 2015)
- MUC - £105 (May 2015), £109 (Sep 2015 from HBO)
- MXP - £180 (Jan 2015)
- NCE - £140 (Dec 2014), £114 ex-LGW £145 to LHR (Apr 2015 from HBO)
- ORY - £99 (Jan 2015), £69 (Mar 2015) £90 April 2015
- OSL - NOK1200 = £100 (Feb 2015), £120 (May 2015), £91 (Aug 2015), £159 (Jan & Mar 2016 )
- OTP - £185 (Jan 2015)
- PFO - £119 (Sep 2015)
- PMI - £69 (Mar 2015), €79 (Mar 2015). Note LCY. PMI-LHR €175 (Mar 2015) / EUR 180 (Apr 2015) / EUR 205 (Oct 2015)
- PRG - £79/£120 (Dec 2014/Jan 2015), £149 (Dec 2015)
- PSA - £165 (Feb 2015), £89 (Oct 2015)
- RTM - £65 (Jan 2015, ex LHR)
- SVG - NOK 720 (Dec 2015), NOK 720 (Aug 2015), £99 each way (Dec 2015)
- SZG - £114 (Dec 2014)
- TIA – £99/€119 (Dec 2014) €159 (Mar 2015)
- TXL – £115 (Dec 2015) / €150 (Jan 2015) / £120 (Feb/Mar 2015) / €125 (Apr 2015) / £119 July 2015
- UIP - £69 (Mar 2015). Note LCY.
- VCE - £145 (Jan 2015)
- VIE – £149 (Aug '15) £135 (July '15) £145 (Jan '15) £99 and £129 (Nov 14)
- VRN - £89 / €109 (Dec 2014)
- WAW - £139 for LHR-WAW-LHR Oct 2015, 475 PLN (£79) for WAW-LHR (Jan 2016)
- ZAG - £89 for ZAG-LHR Aug 2015, €130 ZAG-LHR Nov 2015
- ZRH – £87 / CHF135 (Dec 14) LCY flights £69 (Nov 2014), £105 (LHR, Jul 2015)
Long haul routes from LON to North America
(price shown from lower cabin to mentioned cabin, e.g. WTP means price to POUG from WT to WTP):
- AUS - WTP $229 (Nov 2015), CW £473 (Feb 2015)
- BOS - WTP $189 (Apr 2015)
- JFK – WTP £147 (Jan and Apr 2015)
- IAD – WTP $288 (Jan 2015)
- LAS – WTP £198 (Aug 2015)
- LAX - CW £540 (Feb 2015)
- ORD - CW GBP 473 (Nov 2015)
- SFO – WTP $310 (Nov 2015)
- YUL – CW £405 (Jan 2015 - Post #95)
- YYZ - CW GBP 350 (Jun 2015)
Long haul routes from LON to South America
(price shown from lower cabin to mentioned cabin, e.g. WTP means price to POUG from WT to WTP):
Long haul routes from LON to Asia
(price shown from lower cabin to mentioned cabin, e.g. WTP means price to POUG from WT to WTP):
- BOM –WTP £168 (Dec 2015)
- PVG – CW £440 (Jan 2015)
- HKG - WTP £207 (Jan 2015)
- NRT - WTP £207 (Apr 2015)
- BKK - WTP £229 (Aug 2016)
Long haul routes from LON to Australia and Oceania
(price shown from lower cabin to mentioned cabin, e.g. WTP means price to POUG from WT to WTP):
- LHR-SYD – WTP £159 (Apr 2015)
Long haul routes from LON to Africa and Middle East
(price shown from lower cabin to mentioned cabin, e.g. WTP means price to POUG from WT to WTP):
- DXB – WTP £150 (Jan 2015)
- DXB – CW £499 (Feb 2015)
- TLV - WTP £153 (Apr 2015)
Long haul routes to LON
(price shown from lower cabin to mentioned cabin, e.g. WTP means price to POUG from WT to WTP):
- BOS - WTP $189 (Apr 2015), F $850 then $763 (Nov 2015)
- DME - WTP £145 (Nov 2015)
- DXB – CW £499 (Jan 2015)
- DXB – CW £299 (Nov 2015)
- GIG – F £447 (Jan 2015)
- HKG – WTP £161 (Jan 2015)
- HKG - CW £540 (Mar 2015)
- HKG - CW £599 (Mar 2015 for travel in April)
- IAD - WTP £185 (Apr 2015)
- JFK – WTP £168 (Jan 2015)
- JFK – F £508 (Dec 2015)
- MCO - WTP £170 (Sep 2015)
- MIA - WTP £176 (Nov 2015)
- ORD - CW GBP 473 (Nov 2015) increased to GBP 525 in 4 hours.
- PEK - CW GBP 549 (Aug 2015)
- SFO – WTP $310 (Nov 2015)
- SIN – CW £549 (Mar 2015)
- SIN – WTP £198 (Jun 2015)
- SYD – CW £500 (Jan 2015)
- YYZ - CW GBP 450 (Jun 2015)
- YYZ – CW C$723 (Nov 2015)
- YYZ - WTP GBP 189 (Jun 2015)
POUG terms and conditions can be found by clicking here.
Pro-active Online Upgrade (POUG) tracking and discussion | 2015 thread
Feb 14, 2015, 1:19 pm
#241
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Bangkok / London
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Posts: 1,109
Unless they move me at the airport I assume CE stops at 3 rows and I will be in the first row of ET. 4B was still not being displayed as a seat during OLCI, not sure why that seat can't be picked..?
Feb 14, 2015, 2:31 pm
#242
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: London
Posts: 17,007
If only one pax takes this offer, and if 12 seats are already sold as CE, that would mean row 4 becomes CE, but what do they do with the other pax in that row? Can you have a row with one pax upgraded to CE and the rest still in ET? Or does the whole row become a CE row and any pax seated there become CE too?
At this point there are now too many Y pax for the Y cabin but there are some free seats left in the J cabin.
An unknown algorithm looks through the passenger manifest and decides whom to upgrade. This is based on time of check in (earlier the better), executive club status, fare class, number of prior upgrades, and probably more things we don't know about.
Meanwhile another algorithm decides whom to offload and rebook onto alternative services. We don't know how that works, except that pax with connections and pax with already checked-in luggage are unlikely to be moved.
Feb 14, 2015, 2:33 pm
#243
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: London
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If these are the "space expander" seats, the first B seat behind the curtain is not used because the C seat would jut out compared to the seat C in front. This, in combination with the curtain, leaves the passenger's aisle-side knee from that seat at risk of collision with the trolley. Therefore the B seat is left "unexpanded" so that the C seat does not jut out.
Feb 14, 2015, 3:56 pm
#244
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Bangkok / London
Programs: BA Silver, AmEx Platinum, AVIS Presidents Club, Marriott Titanium Elite
Posts: 1,109
Thanks for the explanations, helpful as I fly this route weekly so it's nice to know.
I have one seat on the 464 but I have four friends flying on the 518 about half an hour before me (op by Iberia). Ideally if they offer any bumping off we would happily accept and try to get on the same flight but not sure it's as simple as that. In any case between us all we have enough people with Sapphire status to enable us all to spend some time in the lounge so if we have to go on separate flights it's not the end of the world.
It's not normally this busy when I fly this route so I put it down to being the first weekend of half term?
I have one seat on the 464 but I have four friends flying on the 518 about half an hour before me (op by Iberia). Ideally if they offer any bumping off we would happily accept and try to get on the same flight but not sure it's as simple as that. In any case between us all we have enough people with Sapphire status to enable us all to spend some time in the lounge so if we have to go on separate flights it's not the end of the world.
It's not normally this busy when I fly this route so I put it down to being the first weekend of half term?
Feb 14, 2015, 7:31 pm
#245
Join Date: Oct 2014
Posts: 5
I've been offered $808 WTP to CW LAX-LHR for March 24.. I only booked 48 hours ago.
My travel companion also booked on the same LAX-LHR flight has been offered WT to WTP for $315.
Does anyone know if these offers *might* go down closer to the day or if these pougs are a good price?
Thanks!
My travel companion also booked on the same LAX-LHR flight has been offered WT to WTP for $315.
Does anyone know if these offers *might* go down closer to the day or if these pougs are a good price?
Thanks!
Feb 15, 2015, 6:56 am
#246
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Bangkok / London
Programs: BA Silver, AmEx Platinum, AVIS Presidents Club, Marriott Titanium Elite
Posts: 1,109
Still in 4A in ET, no offloading offered, 4 pax on BA518 also not offered offloading or POUG but is currently 11 seats overbooked in ET apparently. Will travel on separate flights and meet at the baggage belt in MAD!
Feb 15, 2015, 7:17 am
#247
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: WAW ✈ LHR ✈ GLA
Programs: BA GfL/GGL/CCR, HH Diamond, IHG Diamond Ambassador
Posts: 2,502
Hello,
I've recently bought a ticket LHR-WAW-LHR for two, it offers me POUG for £110 per person, each way. For ticket bought in September for May 2015 I paid £72 for POUG. Bit disappointed that the price went up.
For my other tickets is offered £110 for LGW-AMS, while AMS-LHR was £90 and other AMS-LCY was £69.
Hope that helps!
I've recently bought a ticket LHR-WAW-LHR for two, it offers me POUG for £110 per person, each way. For ticket bought in September for May 2015 I paid £72 for POUG. Bit disappointed that the price went up.
For my other tickets is offered £110 for LGW-AMS, while AMS-LHR was £90 and other AMS-LCY was £69.
Hope that helps!
Last edited by megaloman; Mar 14, 2015 at 6:50 am
Feb 15, 2015, 1:15 pm
#248
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: London, UK
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Posts: 16,354
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Feb 15, 2015, 4:54 pm
#250
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: London
Programs: BA Silver, Virgin Red
Posts: 116
Confirming BCN is still £130.
Feb 15, 2015, 6:54 pm
#251
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 380
Regarding $808 LAX-LHR: in my experience, most of the WT+ to CW from east coast price out at over $850, so i would certainly pay $808 from LAX. $850 from east coast is a but much
Feb 16, 2015, 1:11 am
#252
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: UK
Programs: BA, U2+, SK, AF/KL, IHG, Hilton, others gathering dust...
Posts: 2,552
LHR-DUB still being offered at GBP 95 (offer in Feb, travel in Jul).
Feb 16, 2015, 1:40 am
#253
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Bielefeld, Germany
Programs: BAEC Silver, OWE Saphire, VS, IB, HHonours, Former Under The Sea Dweller
Posts: 138
Offered ET to CE from DUS to LHR for €70 for June.
Thought I had better post here finally
Thought I had better post here finally
Feb 16, 2015, 1:46 am
#254
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Join Date: Feb 2010
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Welcome to Flyertalk Tuggster
And well done for doing so. Welcome to Flyertalk Tuggster, welcome to the BA board. Thanks for that update, it's only via contributions from members that this resource has any value. Please keep on at it, as it were, welcome on board.
Feb 16, 2015, 1:56 am
#255
Join Date: Feb 2013
Programs: BAEC Gold, M&M FF
Posts: 125
Offered and accepted NRT-LHR J-F GBP525 for the first week of March.