Artpen100

At $1.7K and 60K miles for a RT in business, that seems to be about the lowest you can get on any international route in my experience - whether miles and copay or buying Y,B,M and using GPUs. I detect a pattern that this is usually around the floor. Certainly if I see that approximate cost, I get it.

hkcj

$829 from LHR to EWR on November 4 (Saturday) afternoon flight; I'm Gold. I took the offer and enjoyed the rest. There were unfilled first class seats on the flight, as well as many empty rows in coach (so perhaps not the wisest decision).

nmenaker

Indeed.. well if UA considers miles to be "worth" 2cents, (I put it more at 1-1.5 cents depending) then that's about 2900$ all in for that route. Pricing on UA was about 4.5-5K over various periods and AA was about 3200$ at one point, but ending at 4500$ for a cash ticket. As I only did OW for 30K plus the ~850$, I can't really say if I would have gotten total at 1700$ for the cash upgrade pricing. In the end, the buyer (me) and apparently the seller (UA) got something they both wanted and felt comfortable if not all out happy with.

segiddins

$1609 for this gold (will be platinum after this flight) GRU-IAH. Flight will go out with 9 empty in J.

getagb

Did you take it???😛

DELee

Or say "NO!" and give it back?

David

segiddins

I enjoyed having 22 A/B all to myself. Truly don’t understand the pricing strategy here, it’d be one thing if they were close to filling the J cabin, but they weren’t... I do wonder if the Brazilian point of sale on the ticket might’ve screwed up the price? As 1600 reals would’ve been more in line with what I was expecting.

lincolnjkc

I booked CLE-ORD-PDX/PDX-IAH-CLE (738->739 and A320->E145) to visit my mother for her birthday in FEB... was planning on (and am) trying to burn RPUs since I have way more than I'll ever use.

Anyway, after I made the purchase the offer was $99 CLE-ORD, $199 ORD-PDX, $209 PDX-IAH...and...$159 IAH-CLE on a single cabin aircraft.

I declined all but I'm really curious what would have happened had I accepted that buy-up offer... money into a black hole? Sudden aircraft swap to accommodate my wishes for a 2-cabin aircraft? Auto refund? .

The RPU process which I did immediately after ticketing on the other hand was very aware that it was a single cabin AC ("Economy Confirmed/Economy only aircraft" vs/ "Economy Confirmed/United First waitlisted"

sdix

My son who has no status on United booked a last minute (day before) award ticket from SFO-BOS for 12,500 miles. (draining his MP account) After completing the transaction ($5.60) he was offered an upgrade to J for $295. No brainer - he jumped on it and enjoyed his lie flat on the 757 since getting a preferred seat in coach would have been $129.00

FriendlySkies

Booked a round-trip MCI-DEN for the end of the month. Outbound booked as a W fare, return as a K fare.

$119 upgrade offer each way.

1kBill

I was trying to upgrade a friend of mine using certs and noticed that she had the following offers for her flights:

joe_miami

I bought a $460 multi-city ticket from New York to the Dominican Republic a few days ago, flying into PUJ and then departing POP about 10 days later. At the time of purchase, the one-way fare difference between economy and business was $202 for the New York to PUJ segment. Right after confirming the ticket, a pop-up appeared offering a buy-up to business — for over $1,000 for the New York to PUJ segment. I declined, obviously.

A few hours later, still within the 24-hour free-cancellation period, I checked the "upgrade flight" link, which offered the same one-way upgrade for about $450. I declined that, too. After that, I clicked the "change flights" link, selected the New York to PUJ segment, and selected business class, and it offered me the change/upgrade for ... the same $202 fare difference that I could have booked at originally (with no change fee).

I have a long first day in the D.R., so I decided to take that offer, even though my upgrade odds are probably very good. However, even though the charge was authorized at $202 on my credit card, the charge just posted today at $236. Anyone have this happen before? Other than situations where a tip is added after the authorization, I can't ever recall having a charge post at a higher amount than the authorization.

Starman

There've been multiple reports of the upsell charging the credit card more than what you authorized. I had one with a $106 overcharge a few months ago. Thanks to warnings on FT I screen shot the "I agree" page with the lower price, before pressing the button to purchase. When I sent that to the UA refund center via the web page, they refunded the excess within a few days.

joe_miami

Interesting. Thanks for the reply.

rbAA

The pop up offer for HKG-SFO on 11/30 was $2059, with many open seats. I declined and instead UPG'd with $600+30k miles.