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?
The saying "its not what you know but who you know" covers this and the billions of other situations where the undeserving get treatment better than the deserving because of connections.