mridley2

I paid $700 for flight home for Christmas on popular travel days. Upgrade offer has been as low as $335 but now it's sitting at $881 for departure on the 22nd.

No thank you for all. I'm in C+ going NYC-ATL-CHA rt. I'll be just fine with a couple drinks and some peanuts. Thanks delta.

Marclaw

Flying LGA to MCO, out on 12-24, back on 12-28.

DL's been offering me the FCM upgrade for two of us at $201 each for the round trip since I booked a month ago. This morning the price jumped to $993 each. There are still 7 seats open up front on the trip down and 8 on the trip back.

Nice FCM prices if DL can get it.

injera

Flying to MCO for a conference in Feb. Will be flying EWR->MSP->MCO which I know is out of the way but i want to travel with an MSP based colleague so we can prep for the conference on the flight down and regroup on the way back.

We booked our economy tixx and took exit rows next to each other. He's offered a chance to UG for $88 r/t, i'm giving the chance to UG for $94 r/t. I'm guessing anything to MCO is an easy UG but the MQM alone is worth it. $23.50 per leg, each 2 hours plus is a no brainer.

Thanks Delta

Crazyhotelguy

FCM has changed the easy upgrades to and from MCO. You did the right thing to guarantee FC.

miraclebear2003

Agree. Have FCM for a little over $100 going MCO-LGA-MCO. Besides for MQM, I didn't have to wait to be able to select C+.

Last week flew MCO-JFK-LAS and since I was on award ticket I didn't get offer to upgrade. However, got my free upgrade to JFK.

MSPeconomist

Be careful. Often DL presents the prices as per direction or even per segment. Also, for prices this low, you don't what to use pay with miles because DL tends too round up (not in your favor).

If you go for it, try to make both changes simultaneously (phone call as both are logged into FF accounts on delta.dumb) just in case there's only one seat at such prices.

snorkmaster

I paid for Comfort+ and all I'm seeing at the top of my reservation online and in the app is "Upgrade to Delta Comfort+." There's no mention of a First option.

Is this a glitch? Or perhaps what happens when FCM is not being offered? Or something else?

-Curious in Coach

United747

Did you book via a TA? I've never gotten an offer when I book through mine.

miraclebear2003

FCM isn't automatic. On some bookings I've seen it come and go and then come back again. You could call and see if there is anything available. Without knowing when and where you're flying it's hard to guess why it's not being offered now.

RatherBeOnATrain

My spouse, a SM member without status, has an upcoming ATL to TUS roundtrip. Her employer booked her coach seats.

We logged into delta.dumb to attach her SM # to the reservation and to pick seats. Both seatmaps only offered center seats in the last two rows (between the engines). I then checked her C+ and FCM prices. The FCM offer was the exact amount as the C+ upgrade plus $25, the cost of her first checked bag.

And that's how there were two fewer FC seats for elite upgrades...

sethb

When I buy the ticket it generally shows per direction (or segment). When I look at it later, the offer is for the full trip.

Zorak

I've seen FCM priced by segment after booking... I have not attempted to collect any data but my vague impression is that the higher the overall amount the more likely they are to break it up by direction/segment to make the price seem more attractive.

ETA: it wouldn't surprise me if they were doing various sorts of A/B testing to see what works better in general or with specific people's buying patterns, big data the .... out of it.

flydentmnode

The last 6mo I've been purchasing mostly FC tickets for short money over the economy. I'm also in a push for gold so I need the extra miles.

However I do keep thinking to my self if I'm buying the FC seat bc upgrades are so hard to come by, then why do I even care about my medallion status?

db729

Can I upgrade to first, and then SDC from a nonstop to a route with a stop and still get the MQM bonus? Just thinking about collecting some MQM miles before the year ends.

AKSteveB

I usually buy the cheapest Y fare ..wait for a FCM offer I want to grab ..and if either I don't find one by 21 days out ..or I see one of the "Only x number of seats at this fare" message for the A or P fare ..I'll grab the offer at this point. I have a MCO-ANC one way in February (conference in Orlando) ..and all of a sudden the FCM offer price jumped up 50 pct higher than the actual current A fare! I've never seen that before. Called in, and was able to upfare the ticket into the A price without a change fee. It sounds like I'm not the only one this happened to. I wonder if they are trying to incorporate a past history algorithm. Next time I'm traveling with the GF ..who doesn't have much history on DL, I'll book us on separate PNRs and see if we get different offers.

While I'm at it ...Any new thoughts on the DL-AS partnership. They seem to keep getting further apart ..but the (what seems to me to be crazy) mileage earning anomaly continues. If you buy an A or a P fare on DL ..credit it to AS ..you get 100%(A), 75%(P), bonus over actually flight mileage, as opposed to spend based on a 675 dollar ticket crediting to DL. Works great for me as an AS MVPG ..but that can't go on ..can it?