Originally Posted by olehel

Hi all,

First post after having checked this forum for years, always a tremendous wealth of info and I've usually always found an answer by searching.
However, encountered the following which I hoped would be an easy answer (sorry if done before, tried to read through and search but didn't find).

I was under the impression that when you did UuA that you got tier points for the booking class of the upgrade. This is what I understood "The genius of UuA is despite the upgrade being pulled from redemption inventory, the booking retains an underlying commercial fare. This means you earn Avios and Tier Points for your flights in accordance with the original selling fare” to mean and indeed when I recently did a return LHR-JFK upgraded from WT+ to CW, I got 280 tier points.

Now I just did an UuA on a return LHR-OSL from Economy to CE, but in manage my booking it shows I will earn 20 tier points instead of what I thought would be 80? Is there a different mechanic on short-haul or is it a mistake? If a mistake, can I call BA and ask to fix it?

Many thanks in advance