Not seen a recent dedicated thread for this, so thought I would start one.

I have a companion voucher (old black card), 2 x premium upgrades (old black card) and a new companion voucher (new mastercard). I am Gold status.

I have been told you can now book I class tickets for Upper which are clearly cheaper than J, but still pricey. Does anyone have any views or answers as to whether this is worthwhile? First glance, I see LHR-HKG as £3500 per person cheapest upper fare return or £5300 in I class. So while the companion addition would cheapen this, with taxes it would only be just below 2 x cheapest upper cash fares. Am I missing something? Or should I just discard this rather useless old companion voucher?

Regarding the Premium Upgrades, are they worth anything? I've not heard or read much about them. I guess if you can get a reward sale economy flight, then pay PE taxes, it kind of works out ok value?

And finally, anybody had any experience of using the 241 voucher on the new card? I am Gold so it has a lot of value for me. LHR-HKG for 115k miles + £1160 taxes, compared to £7k in cash, for 2 pax.

Thanks all.