First Class Monetization, or FCM: The Definitive Thread
Apr 12, 2019, 5:46 am
#4486
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: STL
Programs: DL - PM
Posts: 226
Flight in September on a Sunday from MCO-SLC-LAS. One-way upgrade offer on these segments currently $213 or 19,900 SM. Half tempted on this one for me and my fiancé. The return from LAS-SLC-MCO is closer to $700 on the offer.
Then again, I suppose I could just keep my Comfort+ seats and chance it on the upgrade that late in the year too. Thoughts?
Then again, I suppose I could just keep my Comfort+ seats and chance it on the upgrade that late in the year too. Thoughts?
Apr 12, 2019, 1:45 pm
#4491
Join Date: Mar 2006
Programs: Delta Platinum, AA Plat Pro, F9 Elite 100k
Posts: 151
I haven't personally done the MCO-SLC flights yet since becoming a PM, so I appreciate your feedback. Would you agree that it's wiser to take the $129 for this flight and save the $84 on the SLC-LAS leg, or would you be inclined to do the $213 for a reason unbeknownst to me?
Apr 12, 2019, 2:48 pm
#4492
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: STL
Programs: DL - PM
Posts: 226
I haven't personally done the MCO-SLC flights yet since becoming a PM, so I appreciate your feedback. Would you agree that it's wiser to take the $129 for this flight and save the $84 on the SLC-LAS leg, or would you be inclined to do the $213 for a reason unbeknownst to me?
Apr 12, 2019, 3:06 pm
#4493
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Tokyo, JP
Programs: DL DM/2 MM, Marriott Lifetime Titanium, National Exec Elite, Hilton Gold
Posts: 288
Flight in September on a Sunday from MCO-SLC-LAS. One-way upgrade offer on these segments currently $213 or 19,900 SM. Half tempted on this one for me and my fiancé. The return from LAS-SLC-MCO is closer to $700 on the offer.
Then again, I suppose I could just keep my Comfort+ seats and chance it on the upgrade that late in the year too. Thoughts?
Then again, I suppose I could just keep my Comfort+ seats and chance it on the upgrade that late in the year too. Thoughts?
Apr 12, 2019, 4:28 pm
#4494
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: NYC/ EWR/ PHL
Programs: UA Platinum, Hilton Gold, Hyatt Discoverist, Marriott Gold, IHG Platinum
Posts: 2,209
It depends on your flexibility if SDC makes sense. Otherwise, just stick with the longer leg, and hope the upgrade clears SLC-LAS. I'd also look at flight loads, but as it's a shorter flight, I probably wouldn't pull the trigger on that leg.
Apr 12, 2019, 10:09 pm
#4496
Join Date: Mar 2006
Programs: Delta Platinum, AA Plat Pro, F9 Elite 100k
Posts: 151
For a while I thought the strategy may be to start selling a few seats cheaply in order to create a sense of fear of missing out for upgraders, which in turn could get some higher prices from people as inventory dwindled, but given the return leg I'm being offered is so high in comparison with the same F seats booked prior to purchase, I'm starting to re-think that theory.
Apr 12, 2019, 10:40 pm
#4497
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Lawrence, MA USA
Programs: Delta Gold
Posts: 273
I don't have EF access, but seat map shows about 40 empty seats in economy, plus 6 C+ and 5 F seats. Flight 1274 this coming Sunday.
Maybe the original $600+ was a mistake, and it was always supposed to be $64? Dunno...
Maybe the original $600+ was a mistake, and it was always supposed to be $64? Dunno...
Apr 13, 2019, 7:21 pm
#4498
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: NYC/ EWR/ PHL
Programs: UA Platinum, Hilton Gold, Hyatt Discoverist, Marriott Gold, IHG Platinum
Posts: 2,209
I ended up taking the $129 offer. I'm willing to roll the dice on the LAS segment, and Comfort+ will work just fine on such a short haul. Honestly shocked to see the offer I did for the MCO-SLC leg. Can't really figure out Delta and this FCM stuff. The return flight from SLC-MCO has same amount of seats currently booked in F and they are trying to sell just that leg for $424.63.
For a while I thought the strategy may be to start selling a few seats cheaply in order to create a sense of fear of missing out for upgraders, which in turn could get some higher prices from people as inventory dwindled, but given the return leg I'm being offered is so high in comparison with the same F seats booked prior to purchase, I'm starting to re-think that theory.
For a while I thought the strategy may be to start selling a few seats cheaply in order to create a sense of fear of missing out for upgraders, which in turn could get some higher prices from people as inventory dwindled, but given the return leg I'm being offered is so high in comparison with the same F seats booked prior to purchase, I'm starting to re-think that theory.
As you're a Gold, if you want to sit in F, I would probably buy up, especially as the price is right. But as it's a short flight, there's no harm in waiting it out especially with that flight load.
Apr 13, 2019, 9:24 pm
#4499
Join Date: Feb 2019
Programs: Delta. AA, National EE, HH
Posts: 162
Apr 13, 2019, 10:09 pm
#4500
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SEA (the REAL Washington); occasionally in the other Washington (DCA area)
Programs: DL PM 1.57MM; AS MVPG 100K
Posts: 21,353
