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
What would be the advantage be of trying to get as high a status as possible with BA?
I have been gold on United for a few years, up until last year when I didn't travel as often and I managed to have multiple business class flights when using myles. Including Auckland to London on Business and First Class with a partner airline (China Airlines).
Does BA or any One World FPP not work the same way where you can use miles to buy business class flight on other One World partners?
Thank you