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Aug 7, 2013 | 2:34 pm

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ThatT1Feeling

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Originally Posted by windowontheAside

I'm not convinced that status helps. I know that a silver card holder got opupped from WT+ to CW ahead of me (GCH) on a flight a while back. Our situations were pretty comparable - both travelling alone, no special meal, connecting flights or anything obvious. I was also on a W ticket so quite possibly paid more for my ticket than him.

How do I know all this? I sat next to him on the way back and he was complaining that his status with BA hadn't scored him an upgrade! We got talking and it turned out we went out on the same flight.

I would agree with this. In these 50-ish sectors, I saw 2 x in-flight upgrades happen. One was a Silver, based on his bagtags. One was a staff member, despite me having no IFE on that flight. I asked the CSD for her rationale for this and was told that the staff member had been upgraded to make sure I could have a WT+ seat with IFE (rather than me having a CW seat with IFE)

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