Originally Posted by
CO Platinum
Well this isnt very impressive considering you have to be in Full Fare Economy. And like many others, I wont benefit from this "new" benefit of SkyTeam. On a side note, we (OnePassers) are moving to *A in about 9-10 months so it doesnt really make a difference. BTW- how does the upgrade system work on Star Alliance? Will we also have to be booked in full fare Y to use miles for upgrades??
Well the *A program is optional but its a little better than the new ST program. UA started using it at first but it was a complete cluster to use it then they stopped... it was supposed to stop only temporarily but it never has returned... interesting other *A programs can upgrade on UA flights but UA MP members can't upgrade other *A flights other than LH.
Hopefully CO opts into the *A program. Its available on the top 2 Y fares rather than just full Y... its been a while since I looked since UA stopped offering it but LO used to offer really good B fares to Europe in comparison to the other members. They have a new C class that doesn't look too bad, certainly no worse than CO BF.
I find this new ST program to be a bit weak too since its only Y fares and for CO its only really adding AF & DL... we've been able to upgrade NW and KL tickets for a while now.