Originally Posted by
sbm12
For folks who are on coach-only travel restrictions, odds are they are not on full Y budgets, so I'm not sure this helps them very much at all.
Yep, many companies not only dictate travel in economy, but at the lowest price too. It's really not much of a help to be able to upgrade from full Y when you can't purchase full Y to begin with — or, as also noted, business or first class is available on a discounted fare that's less than full Y.