Upsell Offers From UA For Business/First Seating (Time of Purchase, OLCI, or Gate)
Apr 28, 2009, 9:42 pm
#1906
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: San Francisco, CA
Programs: Mucci (for services to Gin), VS Au, SPG Plat, Hilton Diamond, Avis Pref+, Hertz 5*
Posts: 980
SFO-LHR offered £584 at OLCI for Y to C - declined. Asked at the lounge at LHR what the upgrade cost was and they directed me to the transfer desk. The nice agent pulled up the cost and it was the same, she said that sounded too expensive and then proceeded to give me a free UG to C! Bravo UA!
Apr 28, 2009, 9:47 pm
#1907
Join Date: Mar 2009
Programs: UA 1K MM, Marriott Titanium, HH Gold
Posts: 644
LAX-MUC $650... MUC-LAX 500Euro or $650
Apr 28, 2009, 11:02 pm
#1908
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Benicia CA
Programs: Alaska MVP Gold 75K, AA 3.8MM, UA 1.1MM, enjoying the retired life
Posts: 31,849
$59 for Economy Plus on this afternoon's BOS-SFO.
Apr 29, 2009, 1:54 pm
#1909
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Sherman Oaks, CA
Programs: Ozark Go-Getters Gold, Statler Star Silver, others from a variety of alternate timelines
Posts: 843
OLCI offered me a Y-to-F upgrade DEN-LAX on 4/28 for $154. Declined. A quick peek while on the flight showed that the F cabin on that 757 was very sparsely populated.
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Apr 29, 2009, 2:01 pm
#1910
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: SAN
Programs: UA 1MM/1K, HH Diamond
Posts: 6,832
Asked for, was offered, and declined $689 for NC->F on DME-IAD. (Just goes to show that you can double-upgrade...)
Reasonable IME for a 10+ hour flight, but a 1/4 full cabin with the reconfig C seats was just fine.
Reasonable IME for a 10+ hour flight, but a 1/4 full cabin with the reconfig C seats was just fine.
Apr 29, 2009, 3:23 pm
#1911
Join Date: Mar 2009
Programs: UA-1P
Posts: 46
LHR-IAD on B fare. Was offered upgrade to Business for $392.55 (per segment) at the time of the ticket purchase (valid for 5 minutes). It then showed the "new" price of the ticket. I was wondering what fare class would then the new ticket be?
Thanks!
Thanks!
Apr 29, 2009, 3:30 pm
#1912
Moderator: United Airlines
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: SFO
Programs: UA Plat 1.997MM, Hyatt Discoverist, Marriott Plat/LT Gold, Hilton Silver, IHG Plat
Posts: 66,859
Apr 29, 2009, 3:39 pm
#1913
Join Date: Mar 2009
Programs: UA-1P
Posts: 46
With UFC the fare class is unchanged, so still the original fare class. .
Apr 29, 2009, 3:55 pm
#1914
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: NRT/HND, IWK, SAT, BWI, NAP, OKA, AUS, DEN, COS and PUB
Programs: UA 1K.. 1MM
Posts: 994
Z fares out of LHR are pretty dang cheap right now, especially when compared to a higher end economy fare. So, at purchase, your "UFC" would really have been upfaring to Z, at least that's my guess.
Randomly checking fares, there's a roundtrip Z fare LHR-IAD that runs roughly $1600.
As others have pointed out, UFC on check-in and at the gate will still show up as the originally purchased fare.
Apr 29, 2009, 3:58 pm
#1915
Join Date: Mar 2009
Programs: UA 1K MM, Marriott Titanium, HH Gold
Posts: 644
I asked the agent at the check-in counter in MUC specifically about the booking class after UFC. She said that the booking class does not change as a result of UFC.
Apr 29, 2009, 4:01 pm
#1916
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: ORD
Programs: UA 1K
Posts: 16,901
4/26 BOS-ORD Y-F offered at $154. Declined.
Apr 29, 2009, 4:15 pm
#1917
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: SUV
Programs: UA *G MM
Posts: 7,018
BKK to NRT was $315 when I asked for it at check-in. What I have noticed at LHR (at least year on several ocassions) was that OLCI offered slightly higher the price offered at the airport.
Apr 29, 2009, 5:53 pm
#1918
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: NY
Programs: AA Plat 1MM, IC RA, HH Gold
Posts: 2,791
$154 LGA-ORD OLCI on the first portion of a Y award ticket. Declined.
Apr 29, 2009, 6:12 pm
#1919
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: San Francisco
Programs: UA 1MM Lifetime Gold, starting AK, Marriott Bonvoy
Posts: 347
$77 SFO-SAN. Declined, because:
(a) 16C is better than 757 F and
(b) I can't consume 13 six-dollar cocktails in an hour. Not and still get off the plane, anyway.
(a) 16C is better than 757 F and
(b) I can't consume 13 six-dollar cocktails in an hour. Not and still get off the plane, anyway.
Apr 29, 2009, 6:55 pm
#1920
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: EWR, PHL
Programs: UA1k 3MM, AA Plt, peasant on everybody else, elite something or other at a bunch of hotels.
Posts: 4,637
I received such an offer last year when purchasing an M fare. It was on the return leg, which I took and the booking class was Z.