Lufthansa 'MyOffer' by Plusgrade [bidding for upgrade to PE, C & F]

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Mar 4, 2019, 8:48 am

#421

hugolover

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So you paid £30 to reserve Row 12 which was then useless because you upgraded to Business? Did you get the money back for the Exit ASR you paid for?

Mar 4, 2019, 9:00 am

#422

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Originally Posted by hugolover

So you paid £30 to reserve Row 12 which was then useless because you upgraded to Business? Did you get the money back for the Exit ASR you paid for?

Isn't the upgrade price lowered by the ASR fee?
I don't know for LH, but AFKL works like that.

Mar 4, 2019, 9:08 am

#423

hugolover

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I’ve no idea...would be interested to know.

If so, for those of us with ASR for free, should we not get a discount on the upgrade?

Oh, I just saw a flying pig out of my window.

Mar 4, 2019, 9:20 am

#424

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Originally Posted by hugolover

I’ve no idea...would be interested to know.

If so, for those of us with ASR for free, should we not get a discount on the upgrade?

Oh, I just saw a flying pig out of my window.

With the dynamic upgrade offers, nobody knows what's happening there anyway. Would be an interesting experiment.

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Mar 4, 2019, 11:13 am

#425

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Originally Posted by LondonFlight

Dear all,

I trust you experts out there will be able to help.

I bought flights last night from London to Rio de Janeiro in Premium Economy Restricted (N) leaving on Friday March 22nd and returning on Monday April 08th. I paid GBP30 on top of the fare to select seats in row 12 for the LHR-FRA-LHR legs. As soon as payment went through I was offered the opportunity to upgrade the connecting legs LHR-FRA-LHR to Business at GBP40 each which I accepted right away. Happy days – Business on the short legs, Premium Economy on the long-haul (first time flying Lufthansa Premium Economy by the way).

I was hoping to be able to make an offer to upgrade the intercontinental flights. Right now, when I enter my booking on Lufthansa.com, there is no link to MyOffer on either sector, only the “invitation” to upgrade each leg for GBP570 which is a bit excessive.

My question – based on your experience, can I have any hopes to receive the link to bid to upgrade the FRA-GIG-GRA legs? Is the link to bid for upgrades supposed to be made available right away after boking or does that depend on current loads in Business? Perhaps the link to MyOffer will never be available because of the booking class N, or because I upgraded the connecting flights?

I am not unhappy with the class of service that I paid for but would still appreciate the opportunity to bid to upgrade if possible. I wonder if the link to MyOffer will be made available at some stage.

I looked for answers on Google and here on Flyertalk and could not find a straightforward response so thank you in advance for your help!

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you!

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Originally Posted by hugolover

So you paid £30 to reserve Row 12 which was then useless because you upgraded to Business? Did you get the money back for the Exit ASR you paid for?

Hi hugolover! The £30 I paid for row 12 on both legs were absorbed into the £80 to upgrade instead. I double checked - the money was not lost.

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Mar 4, 2019, 11:16 am

#426

LondonFlight

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I wonder if I can still hope to see the link to MyOffer Plusgrade at some point... So far all I see is the option to pay £570 per way.

Last edited by LondonFlight; Mar 4, 2019 at 2:16 pm

Mar 4, 2019, 3:15 pm

#427

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Originally Posted by UAPremExecflyer

Post #406 onwards https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/luft...e-pe-c-28.html

Hello UAPremierExecflyer,

Thank you for sharing the link.

I read the thread and was ready to follow the instructions on #406 when I thought I would try #381 beforehand - not sure if the link to MyOffer was generated in the past couple of hours but I was finally able to locate it.

To my disappointment, the minimum bid per sector is £475. That figure times two, plus the price I paid for my ticket in PE along with the £80 to upgrade the connecting flights will make the total cost well above the £1,499 that Lufthansa is charging for the LHR-GIG-LHR in Business on the same dates at the moment.

I thought I would be able to manually enter £200, £250 max per sector and see what happens.

Oh, well...

Last edited by LondonFlight; Mar 4, 2019 at 4:19 pm

Mar 4, 2019, 5:13 pm

#428

kbooks66

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I cannot seem to find the bidding option on for my flights from Seattle to Prague. Are award flights eligible to bid for upgrade, or is it only for paid flights? Could I not have the option because my flight were booked using life miles rather than through miles and more?

Mar 5, 2019, 2:10 am

#429

hugolover

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£1499 was a great deal for Business, I would have booked that.

Shows how dumpy dumpy LH are these days from many markets.

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Mar 5, 2019, 3:20 am

#430

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Quote:

Originally Posted by hugolover

£1499 was a great deal for Business, I would have booked that.

Shows how dumpy dumpy LH are these days from many markets.

You are very right, it is a great fare. KLM and Air France also have some crazy offers in Business to Rio around £1,300 on my dates.

I thought I would potentially grab an even better bargain by booking Premium and bidding to upgrade.

Doh...

Mar 5, 2019, 3:56 am

#431

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Quote:

Originally Posted by LondonFlight

I thought I would potentially grab an even better bargain by booking Premium and bidding to upgrade.

You are still within 24h of the booking and can therefore cancel for a full refund...

Mar 5, 2019, 4:30 am

#432

LondonFlight

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Originally Posted by malmostoso

You are still within 24h of the booking and can therefore cancel for a full refund...

Thank you, malmostoso. I booked on Sunday evening so the deadline is gone...

I am actually curious to try Lufthansa's PE product. I really enjoyed the Premium Economy experience on EVA Air and Virgin Atlantic, hopefully Lufthansa's will be another pleasant surprise.

I still would like to have been able to bid a specific amount though, as I thought I would. Is there a trick to manually enter the amount I am willing to bid per leg?

Last edited by LondonFlight; Mar 6, 2019 at 12:54 pm

Mar 5, 2019, 10:41 am

#433

Nic33

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Quote:

Originally Posted by LondonFlight

Thank you, malmostodo. I booked on Sunday evening so the deadline is gone...

I am actually curious to try Lufthansa's PE product. I really enjoyed the Premium Economy experience on EVA Air and Virgin Atlantic, hopefully Lufthansa's will be another pleasant surprise.

It is of course a matter of personal preference, but for me PE is perfectly fine on a day flight, as I do not value C food at all and the possibility to have a bed during daytime. On a full flight, PE can be a little dense, but nothing compared to Y. So you will be fine.

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Mar 5, 2019, 11:48 am

#434

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LH upgrade policy is not very competitive. We had this discussion before. its always the same price or even cheaper to buy a return C instead of buying PE and upgrade it. The only upgrade that is competitive is from Y to PE which is usually around 200-250 euros. The same applies with the airport upgrades fix price. Last time i was flying PE from Panama city to FRA and the airport price from PE to C was 1000 USD. No idea why someone would pay this amount.

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