Originally Posted by
LHHon
Am I just being nasty and petty in feeling rather aggrieved because a) availability for Avios upgrades is notoriously limited even for EC Gold, and b) that I had needed to use my hard-earned Avios for a one-class upgrade, while a phone call to a friend of a friend at BA apparently carries sufficient weight for a freebie 2-class upgrade?
Yes... If you got the class of travel that you booked then be happy with that. It's the same as worrying what other people paid for the same flights etc.
A good friend of mine managed to get an upgrade from WT to CW on a flight to MIA before. We traveled as a group of 4 and only he moved forward ! Were we worried? Not really