High UC fares

Hey

Are Upper Class fares always high as soon as soon as they are released and then come down to a more reasonable price after a few weeks?

Thanks
Zjc

[mitchja]

Not necessarily no. It varies by route, demand and time of year.

I track my booked flight prices using Google flights now and here's one example. Here's how it's tracked since I booked it back in May after I paid <£1700 for this fare. It's currently £3304 if I was to book that today but you can see 3 points since I booked where VS dropped the fare price back down again but for only approx 24 hours each time.

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Thanks

Looking at some UK-West Coast flights in September 2020

The return date I want comes out tomorrow but if I do any combination around the dates it’s around £4,000 return in UC!

Seems very high considering BA is only £1,500 in Club

BA is in a sale at the moment and VS haven't followed. Their UC prices are crazy high for the few routes I've looked at recently.

BA also release their seats at T-355 so they will have released their cheaper fare buckets so give VS a few days to release theirs. it's fairly standar practice to only release the most expensive fare buckets on release day with the cheaper ones following soon after.