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Air Canada Altitude
eUpgrades to Business Class
For eUpgrade requests made on or after March 1, 2015, the number of eUpgrade Credits required to upgrade is increasing. The number of eUpgrade Credits you can earn through the Threshold eUpgrades program is also changing. These changes were made following a thorough benchmarking of the upgrades practices of other major international airlines who often limit international upgrades solely to their highest membership tier, and often severely limit the number of upgrades a member may request over the course of a year.
Not very accurate. Yes, non-NAmerican airlines have fairly limited upgrading via instruments like vouchers or credits. But while all three US airlines do restrict upgrade instruments to their upper tier elites, these instruments are fully transferrable, something AC's eUpgrades no longer are (except for one nominee for SEs, and accompanying colleagues). Nor on either UA nor AA have I ever been limited to a certain number of upgrades. I may only get a certain number of instruments as a top tier elite, but if friends want to gift me upgrades they can't use (or as I often do to friends), there are no limitations on the number that can be processed in my name in a given year. (Not to mention there are also mileage upgrades available.) Nor do these upgrade instruments if used by other than top tier elites, require a copay as do AC's. So the person who researched and authored the above paragraph does not really know how upgrades work on these other airlines. (And we are only talking international flight upgrades and not those on NAmerican flights.)