TRAVELSIG

Good to know- thanks for this update.

Mbcan

Exactly. I was booked in T, which brings me 366 miles for TLV-VIE, P would bring me 1464...

fanb

In the redservices apart from the Smart upgrade I found "red|upgrade at Web Check-in" .It says that it should work for longhaul flights too..
Was anyone offered a cash upgrade for l/h flights? I was wondering how different is their offer for C-class (in comparison to what people offer in the smart upg)..

Paby

VIE-DEL accepted for a Saturday departure at 330 EUR. Economy was zeroed out.

mmff

Great deal. How much had you paid for your Y fare?

unhappyflyer

8 months ago I booked 4 tickets in x for ord -vie for this August. No business class savers were available. I looked today and one business class saver was available so I grabbed it and now have two reservations for the same flight. Will they charge me to refund the miles (united) and cancel my x seat. I assume worst case I can just cancel the award I just made with the 24 hour rule.

Also see it was asked earlier, but has anybody ever seen an upgrade offer for x at OLCI. Having one seat will be tough to see who gets it. Also noticed I can't use EF for this carrier to search for business saver availability should it open. Is this correct.

fanb

Now available in short-haul European C http://www.austrianairlines.ag/Press...-FE5E3CB68ED8}
The red upgrade costs between 99e and 200e(?)
I wonder if they would accept 50e bid on a route where the red upgrade is 99.

unhappyflyer

Same situation. Answer is yes upon check in. Have a united MP ticket and was offered at check in for 599e. Accepted and had 6 seats to choose from.

hscottm

any other recent bids/offers to report??

hscottm

also, since noone was explicitly tracking it, any connection between fare class paid and offer acceptance? if we buy a red|ticket I would otherwise think they would want a better offer than if we bought a higher fare class.. thoughts?

shady

I have no idea how the revenue management works on smart bid. You have the chances of being upgraded though. I was booked in L IAD-VIE and got the upgrade for 370 Eur.

hscottm

shady - thanks. when was the trip?

shady

The trip was end of January. The load factor in Y was around 50%.

hscottm

thanks.

my concerns is my trip is only 3 days long, and so I had to buy a relatively expensive ticket ($2k) but its only in U class Worried they'd expect me to bid a lot more given the class (despite fare being higher than normal for that class).

(EDIT - I had assumed from the United "earning on other airlines" page that U was a very low fare class, but in M&M its actually pretty high)!

Both of my flights at end of August are J9, and not always reliable seat map shows 33 unassigned seats in J outbound and 20 inbound.

Am planning on bidding about 400 EUR each way..

hscottm

Thanks for replies. I paid $2200 for my U class ticket (only 3 day trip) and have initially bid $500 outbound for an upgrade (about 380 EUR) and $560 inbound.

Part of my rationale is there are currently 33 unassigned J seats on the seat map outbound and 21 inbound. As we get closer, and maybe I get more information from people on here, I will likely edit my bids. At worst I can pay up at OLCI.

There were saver business award tickets on my exact itinerary, but I chose to buy these instead since it was going to cost 140,000 miles since its a *A award. It was a tough call since thats a ~$3000 value ticket (and $3k given my base + bids above). I am getting a $2000 travel allowance for the trip.

Any suggestions welcome, and thanks again. Really looking forward to this trip.