Bagold
Currently UK EC cannot upgrade any fare. The change as described by Nick (in my opinion)will not benefit the vast majority of EC UK members. It would be interesting to find out exactly what % of the total active UK membership will qualify.
A couple of years ago I reached just under 3000 points, but in order to get this I had flown almost exculsively on BA. I spend 4 months doing EDI-LHR-BCN, 3 months doing EDI-LHR-MUC and 5 months doing EDI-LHR-ZRH with a few transatlantics thrown in.