First Class Monetization, or FCM: The Definitive Thread
Aug 28, 2017, 12:54 pm
#3632
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I'm seeing $75 for this Thursday night's late DCA-RDU on a CR7. Flight is currently F3W3Y3H1. At $340 for the current price the one-way, I don't think they'll be selling more tickets given that the later AA flight on an ER4 is $134.
Aug 28, 2017, 9:15 pm
#3636
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: West of CLE
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I'm going to SEA in three weeks; I chose a routing through CVG as it was the cheapest and got me to SEA before 11 am. My cheap X/V fare was $361 all in. It turned out that the first three rows of F were shown as occupied (I think there are a couple of cruises leaving SEA the next day). I got an FCM offer for something like $440 one way; then, about two days later, they dropped the price to $266, and I decided to grab it.
They want over $600 for an upgrade on the redeye 757 SEA-ATL and 321 ATL-DCA. The higher the FCM price, the better chance I have of getting upgraded (I saw this phenomenon when Delta wanted over $1,400 to fly on the inaugural D1 flight DCA-LAX, and with 3 unsold seats I got to use an RUC).
They want over $600 for an upgrade on the redeye 757 SEA-ATL and 321 ATL-DCA. The higher the FCM price, the better chance I have of getting upgraded (I saw this phenomenon when Delta wanted over $1,400 to fly on the inaugural D1 flight DCA-LAX, and with 3 unsold seats I got to use an RUC).
Sep 6, 2017, 3:59 pm
#3641
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: MIA
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BOS -> RIC is $87 with 9 open seats. I've gotta love DL for trying, but this is one of the only domestic flights I've been on this year that routinely has empty seats in F and C+...
Sep 7, 2017, 8:16 am
#3644
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I'm seeing worse FCM deals these days, $365 each way JFK-LAS-JFK and one leg literally has no one in FC. Then today $96 for ORD-LGA (this route used to be $50 FCM each way last year).
Sep 7, 2017, 9:50 am
#3645
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