DeltAirlines From United States of America, joined May 1999, 8772 posts, RR: 13 Reply 2, posted (6 years 10 months 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 1291 times:
Pay up to a K fare (if there are seats still available in the K inventory) and you'll be able to...many times, I've seen that K fares on domestic flights are only $10-20 more than an L, $30-40 more than a U. Of course, it depends on availability of upgrades, as all Medallions will be higher on an upgrade list than any non-elite. Soem routes are pretty hard to get a Medallion upgrade on, let alone a paid standby upgrade.
Alitalia744 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 4658 posts, RR: 45 Reply 5, posted (6 years 10 months 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 1202 times:
Quoting Starrion (Reply 4): Not going to happen very often from any of the hubs.
And never happens on transcons. Medallion upgrades are often very difficult to come by on transcons for FOs and GMs sometimes.
DeltAirlines From United States of America, joined May 1999, 8772 posts, RR: 13 Reply 8, posted (6 years 10 months 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 1102 times:
Whenever I've had to buy a K fare, I've called SMS (it's normally so I can have a companion upgrade).
As for upgrades, I'm a FO and am 1/2 this year on trans-con upgrades...I got the last upgrade on a Saturday afternoon ATL-LAS, while the return red-eye I was around number 10 on the upgrade list...only one Platinum got upgraded on that flight (F had 23 out of 24 passengers as revenue customers).
LAS is a tough airport to upgrade to...lots of conventions there, and a popular place to buy F fares (due to FL competing on the route, A fares are pretty cheap), so it's tough to upgrade into LAS.
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