$7000 oversold offer on UA 310, Mar 23
Mar 23, 2019, 6:43 pm
#46
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If you were travelling as a family, ditching your spouse and your kids isn't about security. I'm sure the spouse can handle it. I'm not sure they want to.
(I do know one couple where the husband flies solo, often getting upgraded in the process, and wife meets him there with the 2 kids. Miserable for the wife).
(I do know one couple where the husband flies solo, often getting upgraded in the process, and wife meets him there with the 2 kids. Miserable for the wife).
(then again we don't have kids, so that may change the equation a bit)
Mar 23, 2019, 6:54 pm
#47
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Mar 23, 2019, 7:23 pm
#48
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I don't know what I'd do with a $7,000 voucher. I probably couldn't bring myself to blow it all on a single full-fare F itinerary to some far flung location. At the same time, I couldn't possibly spend $7k over the course of a year on leisure travel in Y.
If it were cash, then it'd be a completely different ballgame. We recently bought a new house and there's so much we could do with $7k...
If it were cash, then it'd be a completely different ballgame. We recently bought a new house and there's so much we could do with $7k...
Mar 23, 2019, 7:35 pm
#49
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If you were travelling as a family, ditching your spouse and your kids isn't about security. I'm sure the spouse can handle it. I'm not sure they want to.
(I do know one couple where the husband flies solo, often getting upgraded in the process, and wife meets him there with the 2 kids. Miserable for the wife).
(I do know one couple where the husband flies solo, often getting upgraded in the process, and wife meets him there with the 2 kids. Miserable for the wife).
A couple days before we were due to return I was looking at other options and we could have done (IIRC) NRT-ICN-IST-FRA-EWR-CLE, again all in Business, turning it into a true round-the-world trip, and adding a few (different) new aircraft and airlines to my list, and no additional cost... awesome, right?!? Right? Who wouldn't want to do that?
Apparently a relatively normal human -- Her response? "If you want to do that I'll meet you back home..."
Mar 23, 2019, 8:23 pm
#52
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Spring break stretches across 3 weeks in this area. People tak about it as though it’s a single, finite week. This is not the case.
Mar 23, 2019, 8:31 pm
#53
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Interestingly short UG list...
Assuming this doesn't reflect the actual list on this route -- In this scenario would FLO, T have been the last pax to get on (displacing the F pax who volunteered) or a battlefield upgrade with the GA taking the time to re-seat FLO, T and then seat the last to board in FLO, T's old Y seat?
At any rate - the flight seemed to consist almost entirely of families, as one might expect on a Saturday morning to a warm-weather destination on the day after school ended for spring break in (a material fraction of) the metro area. This likely explains the lack of uptake for the original $5000 offer.
The part that really confused me sitting on the plane was, how is it possible this issue only came to light after the entire flight was boarded? Somebody upstream said something to address that point but I didn’t really follow what they were saying.
No. While the passenger who accepted the offer happened to be in FC, the offer was made to the entire plane.
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Mar 24, 2019 at 1:58 pm Reason: merging consecutive posts by same member
Mar 23, 2019, 8:50 pm
#54
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Mar 23, 2019, 10:17 pm
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If you were travelling as a family, ditching your spouse and your kids isn't about security. I'm sure the spouse can handle it. I'm not sure they want to.
(I do know one couple where the husband flies solo, often getting upgraded in the process, and wife meets him there with the 2 kids. Miserable for the wife).
(I do know one couple where the husband flies solo, often getting upgraded in the process, and wife meets him there with the 2 kids. Miserable for the wife).
Mar 23, 2019, 10:50 pm
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Mar 23, 2019, 10:56 pm
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If people aren't taking $5k, it's because they really want to stay on that aircraft. Personally I'd be out of my seat like I'd been shot out of a gun.
Mar 23, 2019, 11:07 pm
#58
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This was actually a noon (11:30 a.m.) departure ....... 
rowenb, were you not tempted to jump on this offer?
You sure would have made big FT News!
You sure would have made big FT News!
Mar 23, 2019, 11:13 pm
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No way. Most pax have no clue that UA's ceiling is $10k. On a given flight, there could well be zero passengers aware of that.
If people aren't taking $5k, it's because they really want to stay on that aircraft. Personally I'd be out of my seat like I'd been shot out of a gun.
If people aren't taking $5k, it's because they really want to stay on that aircraft. Personally I'd be out of my seat like I'd been shot out of a gun.
Maybe no one believed that the GA would actually pay $5000.
Mar 23, 2019, 11:18 pm
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