Bidding for UC

Just grabbed a couple of seats for Hong Kong in February in PE and while flicking through the booking there is an option to "bid" for UC seats... Has anyone done this? been successful?

I did try once but the starting price for a bid to upgrade from PE to Upper LGW to MCO was over £900 per person one way so we flew PE.

Dick D

The bidding starts at around £500 but thats still cheaper than the standard UC fare by approx £1000

Never tried bidding as it seems an expensive way to get into UC. If you have a PE ticket then you need 25k miles which you can buy for less than £400.

Assuming Gs are available ...

Never tried bidding as it seems an expensive way to get into UC. If you have a PE ticket then you need 25k miles which you can buy for less than £400.

You usually don't buy an upgradable PE ticket, so its the cost of the upgradeable ticket (I found at least 1.4K) ,plus miles.

And that's one way.

Only the K ticket in PE is not upgradable with miles. The H ticket to HKG is usually only about £100 more than the K (which is the lowest PE). My guess is you will have paid around £1300 for your PE ticket and an H will be about £1500 roundtrip.
So you have the modest extra fare plus the miles. I think you may be referring to the full ware W when you mention £1400 extra.

Usually, when I've looked (and its usually vegas or new york), an upgradable PE fare is about 50% higher than a real sale fare (like 900 PE to vegas) or 1/3 higher than a normal PE fare.

I'd buy from Dublin personally, which would be cheaper plus the miles. Though tends to be less useful eastbound.

Many thanks for your responses!