Originally Posted by
gman1118
Can someone tell me if this makes sense and if they run into this issue before that to upgrade to business class, I would first have to spend $5425 for a Y class economy seat and then spend 25,000 miles to upgrade to business class seat or else just buy the business class seat for $4316 and save money.
It makes perfect sense as a full Y fare between US>Europe is always going to be prohibitively expensive.
If you want to upgrade, you can always upgrade from any normal economy fare to business for 25k miles + $350. In most circumstances there is no reason to purchase a full Y fare for the purpose of upgrading.