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However, without status, you may be able to pay for better seats in advance at one airline but not at another. So if better seats are important to you, you may want to look into the advance seat purchase policies of each airline.
You could probably combine this with the Barclay Arrival card - As long as the upgrade charge is correctly coded as a travel purchase, you could redeem points against it. (Has anyone here tried that?)