Please post your upgrade offers
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Oct 12, 14, 3:41 am
#1
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Join Date: May 2011
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Please post your upgrade offers
It seems AY has increased the number of offers made to Y travellers to upgrade for cash. These offers may come in a mail, text message or possibly at check in and may be made in cash or possibly in discounted amount of points too.
I think it would be nice if this community could gather some information on this so we all can be better informed travellers. Therefore I ask my fellow FT'ers to post some data for each offer they have been made.
If you would be so kind to postwe could quickly get a feel on how common these are and what the going rate is.
Example:
Other comments are of course welcome, like how the loadfactor was, concurrency of op-ups, ...
If you feel this is too much info to post on a public forum, then post as much as you like but prioritize from the top of the list. Or consider to post full list but after your trip.
I think it would be nice if this community could gather some information on this so we all can be better informed travellers. Therefore I ask my fellow FT'ers to post some data for each offer they have been made.
If you would be so kind to post
- City-pair and/or flight number
- Price offered
- Flight date
- FF tier on reservation
- Original ticket type
- When the offer was made
- How the offer was made
Example:
- City-pair: SIN-HEL
- Price offered: 348€
- Flight date: 26-oct-2014
- FF tier on reservation: AY Gold / OW E / None / ...
- Original ticket type: Basic / Value / Pro / Campaign / ...
- When the offer was made: 14 days before take off / Check-in / ...
- How the offer was made: Mail / Text / Check-in / Gorilla Gram / ...
If you feel this is too much info to post on a public forum, then post as much as you like but prioritize from the top of the list. Or consider to post full list but after your trip.
Last edited by intuition; Oct 12, 14 at 10:29 am
Oct 12, 14, 4:33 am
#2
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 229
Here is something from this year to get started.
Following offer was also made to person on the same reservation (as above):
- City-pair: HEL-SIN
- Price offered: 499€ (upgrade with 50 000 points instead)
- Flight date: 2014-06-18
- FF tier on reservation: AY plat
- Original ticket type: value
- When the offer was made: 13 days before
- How the offer was made: e-mail
Following offer was also made to person on the same reservation (as above):
- City-pair: HEL-SIN
- Price offered: 499€ (upgrade with 50 000 points instead)
- Flight date: 2014-06-18
- FF tier on reservation: AY silver?
- Original ticket type: value
- When the offer was made: 13 days before
- How the offer was made: e-mail
- City-pair: JFK-HEL
- Price offered: 48 000 points
- Flight date: 2014-03-17
- FF tier on reservation: AY plat
- Original ticket type: AA booking class M
- When the offer was made: same day
- How the offer was made: SMS
Oct 12, 14, 10:28 am
#4
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Flight number would be more exact, but less readable if one does not know all flight numbers by heart. I'll adjust the description though.
Thanks theBro for starting off the thread with some great data points!
Thanks theBro for starting off the thread with some great data points!
Oct 12, 14, 12:06 pm
#6
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Programs: AMEX Plat / AY Plat, BA GGL-CCR / Bonvoy Titanium (LTP)
Posts: 474
- City-pair: HKG-HEL / AY70
- Price offered: 248 EUR
- Flight date: 2014-07-14
- FF tier on reservation: AY plat
- Original ticket type: Value
- When the offer was made: 9 days
- How the offer was made: email
Oct 27, 14, 12:24 am
#7
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: HEL
Programs: AY Platinum, AA, BA, SK, DL, NT + hotels
Posts: 4,181
• City-pair: SIN-HEL / AY82
• Price offered: 348 EUR
• Flight date: 2014-10-26
• FF tier on reservation: AA GLD = OW Ruby
• Original ticket type: Crazy Days campaign, W
• When the offer was made: 15 days
• How the offer was made: email
• Extra: After booking and paying the upgrade, I called the CS to see if they would reimburse the €40 seat fee that I had paid for a first-row seat in Y; the lady made me wait for a bit and then came back to tell me that since it was a paid upgrade, no points used, they would reimburse the seat fee and I received it back to my AmEx 4 days later!
• Price offered: 348 EUR
• Flight date: 2014-10-26
• FF tier on reservation: AA GLD = OW Ruby
• Original ticket type: Crazy Days campaign, W
• When the offer was made: 15 days
• How the offer was made: email
• Extra: After booking and paying the upgrade, I called the CS to see if they would reimburse the €40 seat fee that I had paid for a first-row seat in Y; the lady made me wait for a bit and then came back to tell me that since it was a paid upgrade, no points used, they would reimburse the seat fee and I received it back to my AmEx 4 days later!
Oct 30, 14, 4:31 am
#8
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Originally Posted by ffay005
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• Extra: After booking and paying the upgrade, I called the CS to see if they would reimburse the €40 seat fee that I had paid for a first-row seat in Y; the lady made me wait for a bit and then came back to tell me that since it was a paid upgrade, no points used, they would reimburse the seat fee and I received it back to my AmEx 4 days later!
• Extra: After booking and paying the upgrade, I called the CS to see if they would reimburse the €40 seat fee that I had paid for a first-row seat in Y; the lady made me wait for a bit and then came back to tell me that since it was a paid upgrade, no points used, they would reimburse the seat fee and I received it back to my AmEx 4 days later!
Only involuntary upgrades (ie AY chooses to upgrade you free of charge) makes you lose the seat selection fee.
Originally Posted by AY Terms and conditions
The fee is non-refundable if you cancel the flight, are involuntarily upgraded, or in case you are not suitable to sit in the seat type selected.
The fee may be refunded if you use your Finnair Plus points or an upgrade voucher to upgrade your travel class, or if you cannot be seated in the reserved seat or in a suitable alternative seat due to Finnair.
The fee may be refunded if you use your Finnair Plus points or an upgrade voucher to upgrade your travel class, or if you cannot be seated in the reserved seat or in a suitable alternative seat due to Finnair.
Nov 13, 14, 7:24 pm
#9
Join Date: Jan 2011
Programs: AY PLT, AA PLT, DL FO, LH, EK, TK, IHG PLT w/AMB, Marriott Silver
Posts: 340
Bingo!
*City-pair: BKK-HEL/AY96
*Price offered: 298 EUR
*Flight date: 2014-11
*FF tier on reservation: AA EXP/OWE
*Original ticket type: Campaign fare booked in W
*When was the offer made: 7 days
*How the offer was made: email
*Extra: Will take it for sure, I think it is good value for money! They might be offering op-ups in BKK for free, but with this kind of offer, it really isn't worth gambling.
*Price offered: 298 EUR
*Flight date: 2014-11
*FF tier on reservation: AA EXP/OWE
*Original ticket type: Campaign fare booked in W
*When was the offer made: 7 days
*How the offer was made: email
*Extra: Will take it for sure, I think it is good value for money! They might be offering op-ups in BKK for free, but with this kind of offer, it really isn't worth gambling.
Jan 5, 15, 10:50 am
#11
Join Date: May 2014
Location: HEL
Programs: AY+Plat, ALL Gold, Scandic L2
Posts: 2,540
Originally Posted by OH-LGG
BKK-HEL
Points 48000 or 1 lh voucher.
I was not interested and this Morning at the gate seat changed from row 21 to 10. ^ Thank You AY!
Points 48000 or 1 lh voucher.
I was not interested and this Morning at the gate seat changed from row 21 to 10. ^ Thank You AY!
Jan 5, 15, 5:50 pm
#12
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: SFO
Programs: AY+ Plat
Posts: 10
Here are a couple of data points more:
- City-pair: HEL-HKG / AY069
- Price offered: 348€
- Flight date: 05-DEC-2014
- FF tier on reservation: AY+ Gold
- Original ticket type: Value
- When the offer was made: 10 days before take off
- How the offer was made: Mail
- City-pair: NRT-HEL / AY074
- Price offered: 498€
- Flight date: 12-JAN-2015
- FF tier on reservation: AY+ Gold
- Original ticket type: Booking class S
- When the offer was made: 10 days before take off
- How the offer was made: Mail
Jan 6, 15, 1:55 am
#13
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Helsinki-Vantaa APT, Finland
Programs: Fighting against AY Silver
Posts: 3,635
Originally Posted by Courmisch
Was that an SMS 24 hours to departure like AY used to send before the supposed introduction of private paid upgrades?
Jan 7, 15, 2:59 am
#14
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: HEL
Programs: AY+ Gold
Posts: 384
- City-pair: HEL-HKT / AY037
- Price offered: 348€
- Flight date: 25-JAN-2015
- FF tier on reservation: AA PLT & AA GLD
- Original ticket type: Booking code R
- When the offer was made: 30 days before take off
- How the offer was made: E-Mail
EDIT: Offer was also received 7 days before the flight for the second time and 1 day before the flight for the third time. Same price - same result.
Last edited by HJP; Jan 25, 15 at 1:34 am
Jan 24, 15, 2:50 pm
#15
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: HEL
Programs: Only Gold card I have is at F24Seven :D
Posts: 4,630
Although the highest interest on this thread is about longhaul upgrade offers, I could not help posting my BUD-HEL Y->C offer 69€ 
Wow. Looking at the ad, they are mentioning high-class culinary experience in J and some other perks which I already have as OWE. Hmm. Hard product wise, exit row vs. front bulkhead. Soft product wise, coffee vs. culinary experience. 69€. .... Oh, I had deleted the message already...but thanks anyway for the offer
Wow. Looking at the ad, they are mentioning high-class culinary experience in J and some other perks which I already have as OWE. Hmm. Hard product wise, exit row vs. front bulkhead. Soft product wise, coffee vs. culinary experience. 69€. .... Oh, I had deleted the message already...but thanks anyway for the offer
