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Can you use miles or whatever to upgrade yourself into business class and make clear that your upgrade was paid with your own personal upgrade instruments? Of could you even pay the cost difference yourself, if you are willing? I assume that your policy does not forbid employees from getting and using upgrades or from paying the cost difference of a ticket they want, for example to tack personal travel onto a business trip.