Originally Posted by
KACommuter
My wife was silver for 10 years before going up to gold and she noticed the difference immediately. She's still in her first year and has been upgraded 3x already, twice of which were on BA long haul

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I also just a lowly silver, but I have been upgraded twice out of 15 in the past 9 months when I was flying in Y. I even got greated when I seated in Y and the lead stewardess even asked me "Mr. Xxx do you care for Chinese tea?"
Ops upgrade is depend on load factor