Originally Posted by RaingerRain

I also have not heard of anyone having success doing this, but somehow everything worked out in my favor here especially considering I didn’t even have the HA upgrade certificates. But it was with my HA number, before HA recognized AS benefits. So it was just with the status match to HA that I was platinum, and supposedly I was meant to have two certificates, but I didn’t have them, but a manager was able to manually get me on the upgrade list because there was space available, voilà I was upgraded.
yay