Jan 24, 2014, 7:45 pm
Last edit by: Air Rarotonga
Summary of accepted/rejected bids:
Domestic
VIE
SZG
Shorthaul
AMM
AMS
ARN
BCN
CAI
CDG
DUS
GVA
LHR
KRK
SBZ
SOF
TLV
ZRH
Longhaul
BKK
DEL
DXB
IAD
HKG
EWR
JFK
MIA
MLE
NRT
ORD
YYZ
PVG
Domestic
VIE
- VIE-LNZ 40€ Rejected September 2014
SZG
- SZG-VIE 40€ Rejected September 2014
Shorthaul
AMM
- VIE-AMM 140€ Accepted May 2015
- AMM-VIE 180€ Accepted May 2015
AMS
- AMS-VIE 60€ Accepted January 2015
ARN
- ARN-VIE 85€ Rejected April 2015
BCN
- VIE-BCN 50€ Rejected September 2014 (Checkin offer, red upgrade 129€)
CAI
- VIE-CAI 55€ Rejected October 2014
- CAI-VIE 55€ Rejected October 2014
CDG
- CDG-VIE 100€ Rejected June 2015
DUS
- DUS-VIE 110€ Accepted July 2015
- DUS-VIE 50 € Rejected July 2015 (although C was only 2/12)
- VIE-DUS 50 € Rejected July 2015
GVA
- VIE-GVA 140€ Accepted February 2015
- VIE-GVA 150€ Rejected August 2015
LHR
- LHR-VIE €150 Accepted September 2016
KRK
- VIE-KRK 75€ Rejected January 2015
- VIE-MXP 85€ Accepted August 2017
SBZ
SOF
- SOF-VIE 90€ Accepted December 2015
TLV
- TLV-VIE 50€ Rejected January 2014
- TLV-VIE 65€ Rejected October 2014
- TLV-VIE 105 USD Rejected September 2015
ZRH
- VIE-ZRH 150€ Rejected August 2014
- VIE-ZRH 120€ Rejected August 2014
- ZRH-VIE 150€ Accepted January 2015
- ZRH-VIE 120€ Accepted December 2015
- VIE-ZRH 120€ Accepted August 2014
- ZRH-VIE 140€ check-in offer - June 2018 (did not buy it)
Longhaul
BKK
- VIE-BKK 520€ Accepted August 2013
- VIE-BKK 350€ Accepted August 2013
- BKK-VIE 250€ Rejected September 2013
- VIE-BKK 160€ Rejected November 2013
- VIE-BKK 315€ Rejected September 2014
- BKK-VIE 360€ Rejected December 2014
- VIE-BKK 300€ Rejected March 2015
- BKK-VIE 305€ Rejected April 2015
- BKK-VIE 405€ Rejected May 2015
- BKK-VIE 407€ Accepted May 2015
- BKK-VIE 435€ Accepted November 2015
- BKK-VIE 455€ Accepted December 2015
- VIE-BKK 450€ Accepted January 2016
- VIE-BKK 300€ Rejected May 2016
DEL
- VIE-DEL 330€ Accepted June 2014
DXB
- VIE-DXB 270€ Accepted September 2014
IAD
- IAD-VIE 300€ Accepted September 2013
- IAD-VIE 365€ Accepted October 2013
- VIE-IAD 330€ Rejected November 2013
- IAD-VIE 320€ Rejected November 2013
- VIE-IAD 410€ Accepted January 2014
- IAD-VIE 370€ Accepted January 2014
- IAD-VIE 380€ Accepted August 2014
- VIE-IAD 430€ Accepted August 2014
- VIE-IAD 370€ Accepted October 2014
- VIE-IAD 320€ Accepted November 2014
- IAD-VIE 320€ Accepted November 2014
- VIE-IAD 410€ Accepted March 2015
- IAD-VIE 310€ Accepted March 2015
- VIE-IAD 500€ Accepted May 2015
- IAD-VIE 500€ Rejected May 2015
- IAD-VIE 340€ Rejected July 2015
- IAD-VIE 340€ Rejected July 2015
- IAD-VIE 420€ Rejected October 2015
- VIE-IAD 450€ Accepted October 2017
HKG
- HKG-VIE 300€ Accepted December 2016
- HKG-VIE 310€ Accepted February 2017 x4
- HKG-VIE 200€ Accepted May 2017 x2
EWR
- VIE-EWR 300€ Accepted September 2014
- EWR-VIE 495€ Accepted May 2017
JFK
- JFK-VIE 370€ Accepted November 2013
- VIE-JFK 330€ Rejected November 2013
- VIE-JFK 520€ Rejected December 2013
- JFK-VIE 300€ Accepted September 2014
- VIE-JFK 500€ Rejected December 2015
- JFK-VIE 325€ Accepted December 2015
- VIE-JFK 250€ Rejected January 2016
MIA
- VIE-MIA 420€ Accepted February 2016
- MIE-VIE 320€ Accepted March 2016
MLE
- MLE-VIE 370€ Rejected January 2014
NRT
- VIE-NRT 520€ Accepted February 2016
ORD
- ORD-VIE 300€ Accepted August 2013
- ORD-VIE 270€ Accepted October 2014
- ORD-VIE 350€ Rejected November 2014
- VIE-ORD 310€ Accepted January 2015
- ORD-VIE 380€ Accepted September 2015
- VIE-ORD 380€ Accepted September 2015
YYZ
- VIE-YYZ 350€ Accepted September 2014
- YYZ-VIE 320€ Accepted February 2015
- VIE-YYZ 355€ Accepted October 2017 x2
- VIE-PEK 300€ Accepted September 2015
- VIE-PEK 220€ Rejected March 2015
- PEK-VIE 250€ Accepted March 2015
PVG
- VIE-PVG €310 Accepted August 2016
- PVG-VIE €310 Accepted August 2016
- VIE-PVG €510 Accepted September 2016
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Jan 13, 2018, 3:29 am
#382
Join Date: Dec 2007
Programs: Air New Zealand Elite
Posts: 445
Planning a trip HKG-VIE in economy in mid Sept. (never flown OS before). Just wondering does star alliance gold status count for anything when bidding for the upgrades to business class? There are flights available for around 700eur per person return at present on OS site. Is this a good price to buy at or do you think it will come down further?
How does the upgrade process work? Do you get the opportunity to bid immediately? Does the bid take you from economy to business?
Once you bid does that tie you up until potentially 72 hours prior to boarding without knowing whether the upgrade has come through?
Thanks for any advice on this.
Last edited by Ellice; Jan 13, 2018 at 3:59 am
Jan 13, 2018, 10:47 am
#383
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Stockholm
Programs: SQ, SK, QR
Posts: 386
Planning a trip HKG-VIE in economy in mid Sept. (never flown OS before). Just wondering does star alliance gold status count for anything when bidding for the upgrades to business class? There are flights available for around 700eur per person return at present on OS site. Is this a good price to buy at or do you think it will come down further?
How does the upgrade process work? Do you get the opportunity to bid immediately? Does the bid take you from economy to business?
Once you bid does that tie you up until potentially 72 hours prior to boarding without knowing whether the upgrade has come through?
Thanks for any advice on this.
Yes, you can bid straight to business from economy. On my outbound, there is only the option to upgrade to business, starting from 200 euro. On the return, I have the option to upgrade to premium economy or business, with business starting at 300 euro (I guess the introduction of premium means they are charging a higher minimum for business).
From my understanding, I will find out whether the upgrade is confirmed 72-48 hours before the flight. And yes, you can bid immediately after purchasing the ticket.
Jan 13, 2018, 1:22 pm
#384
Join Date: Dec 2007
Programs: Air New Zealand Elite
Posts: 445
Thanks aj747m. Not sure if I can access that EUR price you got as my flights originate in HKG and the price you im getting is 13330HKD which is equivalent to 700EUR but I’ll monitor the site. Also thanks for lettiing me know how that bidding process works. I also noticed that I could fly fromHKG to ZRH with Swiss and there also seems to be an upgrade process as well. At least there are quite a few options!
Jan 13, 2018, 8:06 pm
#385
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Stockholm
Programs: SQ, SK, QR
Posts: 386
Thanks aj747m. Not sure if I can access that EUR price you got as my flights originate in HKG and the price you im getting is 13330HKD which is equivalent to 700EUR but I’ll monitor the site. Also thanks for lettiing me know how that bidding process works. I also noticed that I could fly fromHKG to ZRH with Swiss and there also seems to be an upgrade process as well. At least there are quite a few options!
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Jan 13, 2018, 8:14 pm
#386
Join Date: Dec 2007
Programs: Air New Zealand Elite
Posts: 445
Thanks to clarify, that 13330 KD is for two return. So still $6665. But if you got HKG-VIE for $4700 return that's pretty good!! When are you travelling? Was that on a special that's not being offered at the moment?
Jan 15, 2018, 7:19 am
#387
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Stockholm
Programs: SQ, SK, QR
Posts: 386
Travelling in March. I can see similarly priced tickets up until May, so I don't think it's uncommon that they sell for around that price.
Feb 27, 2018, 8:56 am
#390
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Overseas
Programs: UA Platinum, AA, DL, Marriott Gold, Global Entry early adopter
Posts: 95
Flying a two-segment intra-Europe outbound this weekend. And, I bid only on one segment, which got accepted. Whole itinerary booked as T. Now the upgraded segment is Business Flex P, and the other segment is "Business Flex T".
This is completely expected and I have no complaints or misunderstandings whatsoever. But, I just thought it was a little funny to see "Business Flex T". I suppose this means I have all the fare conditions of Business P for both segments, but I just can't ride up front for both segments.
This is completely expected and I have no complaints or misunderstandings whatsoever. But, I just thought it was a little funny to see "Business Flex T". I suppose this means I have all the fare conditions of Business P for both segments, but I just can't ride up front for both segments.