Originally Posted by
Jiblets
Thanks for the responses! I used all miles to book. I clarified with BA that I can upgrade using miles...they would just charge me the additional miles it would have cost to have originally booked the trip in WT+.
Is there a way to tell these days if the flight is booked/full?
Probably not what you want to hear right now but using miles to book WT tickets its not seen as their best usage value for miles wise in regards to the BAEC, due to the levels of tax and fuel surcharge that you have to pay. That means you in effect only get £3-400 worth of value from your 50,000 miles, when you could have perhaps stretched this to £3-4,000 if you'd used them to upgrade from WT+
Obviously this completely depends on your value of the miles in cash terms, as to make those bigger savings you would have had to have invested more in the first place on WT+ tickets.
If your flight is a long way out and WT prices are still not bad, it may well be worth looking at cancelling your redemption tickets, booking revenue seats and saving the miles for a nice cheap WT+ fare that you can then upgrade to get a nice full, flat bed business service!