Nowadays airlines generate a lot of their revenue from ancillary fees, including fees for things like baggage, premium seats, priority boarding, etc. Many airlines generate billions of dollars in ancillary fees alone, and the global airline industry generates over $40 billion per year in ancillary fees, and that number is only growing. Nonetheless there have…
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Having given up status with them (and any airline, for that matter), I like the idea. I'll be curious to see what the pricing looks like. I work for a small company and usually purchase my own airfare, as well as the airfare of most of my colleagues using a company card (mostly in economy). There are many times where I would have footed the bill to pay for a confirmed upgrade.
I upgraded a recent Delta flight to Economy+ for 5000 skypesos - not the best redemption, but at least I could use them (looking at you AA)
Problem is that once you are upgraded to a Delta Comfort + and get a middle seat the chances your previous seat in coach is still available are very small. I noticed that I get upgraded once there are no more coach seats to be selected so they may bump me to open a coach seat for another passenger. I was surprised last week when I was flying out of Vancouver to the US and I was never upgraded to Comfort+ but I heard the gate agent announce my name and that she wanted to talk to me. When I got there she asked me if I wanted to be upgraded to Delta Comfort+ but only middle seat was available. I politely declined the offer but found it a very good way to deal with the situation instead of just bumping me without my consent.
As a slave to a corporate travel department insistent on cheapest available option, this is huge.
This is good. Previously you couldn't decide to buy up to C+ after you bought the ticket.
sometimes, if you have a preferred seat isle or window, that you are happy with, rather that get upgraded to middle, econ comfort seat, take to your sky miles number, if a seat comes available, in econ comfort , that is window, or isle, add you sky miles number , and grab it,
Perfect. Trying to buy up has always been a pain and for people who work for companies who have to purchase the cheapest seats, it's nice to have the option to pay up out of pocket. Good changes.
lucky-A consequence of this latest change in Delta's IT has been the Blocking of SeatMaps for Booked Passengers...Delta knows and has told me "It's Not a Glitch"
Just to add a data point to this, a colleague and I are both flying LAX-MCO on separate reservations as he is coming home a day earlier than I am. He is gold and I have no status and on our departure he shows two seats available to purchased upgrade where I see none. We're booked in Comfort+, so they're offering me the upgrade on the return for $314.92.