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Mar 12, 2017 | 9:10 pm

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Originally Posted by percysmith

Actually let's revert to something more basic - 4/7 CX885 is currently available as a standard business redemption, so it's very likely to be upgradable.

Not 4/26 CX806 right now, but may be closer in.

Ah, indeed. That's right. But just in case OP has exactly 45k AM then they may not want to do that (one way 27.5k upgrade for now). Out of curiosity, how would the mileage requirement be counted in this scenario with ORD and LAX falling into two separate bands?