When looking at business class upgrades for a few trips on the Wolverine, I noticed something a bit strange - while the upgrade for ARB-CHI or CHI-ARB slways shows up as costing $13 over the base rail fare, frequently the base rail fare I have to pay jumps several buckets after I choose BC. As such, what initially appears as a $45 ticket sometimes magically becomes an $89 ticket once I reach the confirmation screen. Why exactly is this? Is it that they are separating the rail fare buckets for coach and BC (so a trip could be low bucket coach, but high bucket BC)? If so, I do think the current site design is quite annoying - if I see "Add $13" for business class, I expect it to add $13 to the displayed coach fare, not some separate fare that isn't displayed until later...
Related to this - if I had a low bucket coach ticket and wanted to upgrade to BC onboard (given availability), would they charge me just the upgrade fee or would they charge me the full difference between the BC ticket cost at departure time and my ticket's cost? Based on how sleeper upgrades work, I would assume the former, but I am not certain...
Related to this - if I had a low bucket coach ticket and wanted to upgrade to BC onboard (given availability), would they charge me just the upgrade fee or would they charge me the full difference between the BC ticket cost at departure time and my ticket's cost? Based on how sleeper upgrades work, I would assume the former, but I am not certain...
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