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United Gave 10k to Downgrade

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 07:33:59 GMT

Just saw this article and thought I'd share. I understand having to change planes is an inconvenience, but 10k to downgrade from Business Class? I'd take it.

https://apple.news/AidWHH-KdRNWrpiQ2EbIzeg

Re: United Gave 10k to Downgrade

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:01:25 GMT

For me it would depend on where I was going, from west coast to Hawaii? Sure! Or if it had connecting flights and on a pre-arranged plan I wanted for a sepcific reason, then probably not.

But I don't think we would really know until the moment happens.

Re: United Gave 10k to Downgrade

Medic981 — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 05:59:13 GMT

Better PR for United than phone video of dragging off bumped passengers that refuse to deplane.

Re: United Gave 10k to Downgrade

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 18:51:38 GMT

Thanks for sharing!

Re: United Gave 10k to Downgrade

Revelate — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 22:40:52 GMT

I may be reading this wrong but it depends who paid for it.

I was looking at some random fares lately and some of the business class fares were that 10k.

They basically gave away 1 business class seat, which, *yawn*. Actually not even, probably bumped for a full fare, so they just gave away a seat in whatever class he got downgraded to... which meh.

Nice for the individual if he or she wasn't the one paying for it, but otherwise it was 10K - original fare and that might not be much money.

Re: United Gave 10k to Downgrade

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 14:44:50 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Just saw this article and thought I'd share. I understand having to change planes is an inconvenience, but 10k to downgrade from Business Class? I'd take it.

https://apple.news/AidWHH-KdRNWrpiQ2EbIzeg

As much as I dislike economy seats, I would take this too.

Re: United Gave 10k to Downgrade

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 14:46:05 GMT

@Medic981 wrote:
Better PR for United than phone video of dragging off bumped passengers that refuse to deplane.

LOL almost anything will be forever better than that

Re: United Gave 10k to Downgrade

iced — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:42:01 GMT

@Revelate wrote:
I may be reading this wrong but it depends who paid for it.

I was looking at some random fares lately and some of the business class fares were that 10k.

They basically gave away 1 business class seat, which, *yawn*. Actually not even, probably bumped for a full fare, so they just gave away a seat in whatever class he got downgraded to... which meh.

Nice for the individual if he or she wasn't the one paying for it, but otherwise it was 10K - original fare and that might not be much money.

The United I flew didn't factor in original fare class to the equation when doing this, and sometimes it resulted in oddities:

- I've been upgraded from Y when a paid F passenger got bumped.

- I've been left on F standby as a missed connection on paid F while they upgraded other lower ranking elites than I was to F.

- My favorite was I was upgraded, then the F cabin got oversold and they took volunteers for a voucher; I got $500 to go back to Y...then a F passenger missed the connection and I got upgraded to F -- and kept the voucher.

The person getting $10k could just as easily have been a mileage award fare as it was a paid full-fare F. Given the route, I'd actually put money that nobody paid full-fare on that flight and more than one F passenger was a mileage award. HNL just isn't an elite-heavy business destination where a lot of full-fare is paid (on OPP, of course).