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Old Nov 8, 2018, 11:41 am
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UKtravelbear
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Originally Posted by Tinseltown


I never really understood the upgrade rules anyway... in all my years of flying BA, I never received an upgrade. The only times I did get upgrades was on Lufthansa as a student (parents lived in Germany but I studied abroad = frequent flyer ). Mind you, I dressed better as a student than I do as a professional.
BA has a behind the scenes algorithm to put the list together IF it needs to upgrade. Remember BA does not upgrade just to be nice only if it needs your seat in the cabin and has space upfront.

It includes things such as status, fare bucket of your ticket, your previous flights and cabin classes. So if you are a regular CW flyer in WTP and BA need to upgrade on that flight they may skip you in favour of a regular WTP flyer who has never been in club in the basis that after a taste you may be more willing to pay for it and thus earn more money from you in the future.
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