Icelandair now offering bids to upgrade 10 days before flight
May 4, 2019, 4:19 pm
#106
Join Date: Oct 2008
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I have an upcoming FI booking in economy where Expertflyer shows availability as J9 Y4. In this thread it is suggested that upgrade bids would be accepted at T-72, but is this the case if Y gets to be sold out before that? Would FI process upgrades before T-72 to make additional seats available in Y or would they just overbook Y and upgrade at T-72?
Jul 1, 2019, 6:06 pm
#109
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: North America
Posts: 27
About 10 days before your flight you will receive an email. Instead of waiting for the email, you can go to icelandair.com and log in with your travel information. From there you can bid, select an EY seat, or pay for a seat in the front (or emergency row).
Aug 29, 2019, 7:57 pm
#110
Join Date: Sep 2012
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I went to the Icelandair website, where it allows one to bid to upgrade to saga class. I am in economy having bought a heavily discounted ticket to travel from SEA to RKV. in Jan. It says I will receive notice 36 hours prior to the flight as to whether my bid was accepted. Does any know what determines the success.? Is it just the amount, or the timing of your bid or the cost of your original ticket? I am curious as to what the perimeters are. Should I just bid now or wait? I would like to know what past experience has been.
Aug 30, 2019, 2:50 am
#111
Join Date: Apr 2014
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I went to the Icelandair website, where it allows one to bid to upgrade to saga class. I am in economy having bought a heavily discounted ticket to travel from SEA to RKV. in Jan. It says I will receive notice 36 hours prior to the flight as to whether my bid was accepted. Does any know what determines the success.? Is it just the amount, or the timing of your bid or the cost of your original ticket? I am curious as to what the perimeters are. Should I just bid now or wait? I would like to know what past experience has been.
Sep 12, 2019, 6:09 am
#113
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We fly tonight BOS-KEF. Original bidding options were in the low/mid $200's, I hoped prices would drop as we got closer to today but no change.
But they did move us out of the Emergency row (that we paid extra for) into a regular row due to "an equipment switch" (it's the same equipment) so we will have to deal with that later.
But they did move us out of the Emergency row (that we paid extra for) into a regular row due to "an equipment switch" (it's the same equipment) so we will have to deal with that later.
Oct 10, 2019, 11:31 pm
#115
Join Date: Oct 2008
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Sep 23, 2021, 1:13 pm
#118
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 181
Recent datapoint for anyone interested, we flew out iad-kef 9/5, on EF there were 8+ free seats in J, at the 72ish hour mark 6-7 seats were changed to blocked. We bid the minimum 185 and did not get upgraded (2 pax). We were notified at T-8 that our bid was declined. On the return, kef-iad same # of seats open, bid 205 (min was 185) and were upgraded at T-73. It was a nice way to come home, the KEF lounge is really comfortable and if I had to pick a direction, going home was definitely preferred. The priority boarding for our flight did not really change anything as we were all boarded onto a bus and then sent up the stairs by whoever was closer to the front doors. But there was ample overhead baggage space.
Sep 23, 2021, 3:30 pm
#119
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: NYC
Posts: 6,433
Recent datapoint for anyone interested, we flew out iad-kef 9/5, on EF there were 8+ free seats in J, at the 72ish hour mark 6-7 seats were changed to blocked. We bid the minimum 185 and did not get upgraded (2 pax). We were notified at T-8 that our bid was declined.