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Old Sep 8, 2017 | 5:04 pm
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Originally Posted by Mwenenzi
Cannot see how spending the extra money now will help in upgrades in the future. Upgrades are generally only on the airline of your ffp. Cross airlines are not that common/successful. AA/BA/IB have a cross airline upgrade system, but useless for most people as requires a very expensive base economy fare. Upgrades are never guaranteed


Long haul business award tickets are always very hard to get.
Nominally all airlines ffp in an alliance have the same access to wards, but in practice does not always work that way. At peak times, like Christmas/New Year & Easter, extremely hard tending to impossible to get. Even when booking 355/330 days out.

Keep your £800 for another trip
yes. 800 GBP can get far...

among the 3 alliance, oneworld is the only one with alliance wide benefits for first class lounge.
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