Originally Posted by
Globaliser
If there are empty seats, you always have the chance to buy any empty seat with cash. You simply ask to change your ticket for the change fee and fare difference.
While *YOU* might do this, I won't. I've got a large pot of currency, valid only with BA, called Avios that I'd like to use for this purpose. If BA won't let me spend it
at all to put my butt in otherwise empty seats, then there's no point earning any more of it by flying BA
at all, much less paying more for a higher class of seat. So if I have to use cash, it will be with an airline that understands that loyalty rewards have to be achievable to engender any loyalty.
Originally Posted by
Globaliser
The real problem with BA's model for you is that you don't like the price they've set.
ABSOLUTELY incorrect. They haven't SET a price because they aren't allowing Avios to be used at all. Give me an Avios cost for the upgrade, and then we can talk about whether I like the price or not.