Discounted Upgrades for £'s at Check In
 

Does any airline offer upgrades in exchange for cash at airport check in counters

Have recently heard BA offered to upgrades at check in for £200 from business to first on a flight from LHR - JFK

Is this common, is it worth offering an amount at check in, am travelling business class tommorrow from LHR-BKK with TG confirmed in Business Class. What is a sensible amount to offer or will they just quote the published fare difference between business and first

am intuiged so any help appreciated and of course will be posting full trip report on my return!

Thread in UA forum on this in last week or two. UA flights to USA ex LHR, and it ran a LOT more than £200 though. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

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TG did offer some form of paid upgrade (Y=>C, C=>P)for ROP (TG FFP) members ex-BKK last year so it's worth asking.

IIRC, the price was USD 400 each way.

I have seen BA offer WT to WT+ at 200$ one way at LAX check in.

From J to F I think you may need a lot more than 200$.

The at-airport same-day upgrade option on United that was given to me 2 weeks ago at LHR, was 500GBP to the East Coast of the U.S. and 750GBP to the West Coast.

WT+ -> J HKG - LHR ~$600.00 USD

Last summer I was at the airport at BOS checking in next to the LX counter, and they had a sign: "Upgrade to Business Class on today's Zurich flight for $300. Inquire at the counter."

I don't know how common this is, but they were advertising it quite vividly.

MilesBuzz????????

Guess it is Miles Buzz if you get a lot more miles doing this than you otherwise would via class of service bonus. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Which no-one seems to have mentioned .... would these "on the spot" upgrades apply for COS bonus?

They never do on upgrades with points or certs, but this is kind of a 'paid' J/F class cabin seat I suppose? Does anyone know?

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i have bought an upgrade from WT to Club on BA at the check in counter, one way BOM-LHR for about $450

nearly every airline i have asked in asia, malaysian, Ba, Garuda (with a watch), KLM, etc. have said yes to this, but i was poor at the time and have only taken up the offer once. but for sin- lhr with malaysian was about £400 - and i was only flying super cheap econ,

Quite a bit of money for an asset that's 100% sure to go to waste 1 minute following departure. How popular were these "sales"?

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I guess they hae to protect the integrity of their fare structure. Why would anyone pay for F if they could upgrade a V fare for two hundred bucks?



I don't think that they should earn a COS bonus, but I'd take one if offered.

Of course, what are the odds that NW/CO start selling upgrades to Europe at the gate???

This may be common when overbooked - as they have to upgrade people anyway.