Good News!

We won our outbound overseas flight Air Canada Upgrade Bid! We have flown AC quite a bit and on most of those flights we have been offered the chance to bid for an upgrade. Here is a FAQ about that and you might be thinking, huh? That's what we've thought too in the past. So, we never tried it. Even with this upcoming Tel Aviv round trip we almost didn't try it. We booked our seats last summer in Premium Economy and had a 2-seat row on the side and figured it would be fine. Clay immediately after receiving the upgrade bid offer put in a bid of $750pp for each overseas segment to lie-flat Business Class. This would be about 50% of what Business Class usually sells for. Now we're just worried that we'll be spoiled for the flight home if his bid is unsuccessful for that segment! It made sense to finally give this AC upgrade bidding a shot this time as the overseas segments are over 10 hours each. Also, this Business Class is the lay-flat pods which is a whole other deal than BC we've had in the past or expect to have in the future. So, the final reason we had for not doing this in the past is that you get seats assigned at the last few days and you may not be seated together. We drew row 2 across the aisle from each other. Clay would rather have each had a window in front or behind. That was not available and we should probably consider ourselves lucky to have the upgrad at all and across from each other. I drew the window and he drew the center aisle. I have offered to switch seats with him even though the window seats do look preferable and more private. The way the pods are built, no stranger should be able to touch me no matter where I sit so I'm still happy. Clay had forgotten that he had placed an upgrade bid and I don't think he ever told me that he'd done it. So, we were lucky! At this point, I now have fingers crossed for the return upgrade bid to be accepted since the return overseas flight is 2 hours longer than the outbound! We'll see. I am still sure that Premium Economy would be acceptable, but it won't be like this Dreamliner Business Class. Hopefully, we won't have to find out. Getting excited.