Originally Posted by
JJeffrey
Those upgrades required you to purchase full fare premium economy to upgrade to business, so they were of little use to anyone anyways. You could oftentimes just buy discount business for cheaper than full fare PE.
Interesting. Thanks for the info. Guess I’m paying the one-way premium. My itinerary is DEN-LHR, then LHR-LAX. BA can get me there non-stop both ways, but I don’t love the return time and would prefer to fly the AA flight then. If I fly AA there I have to connect, of course.
I already have the return leg purchased and currently watching for a deal on an upgrade from Y - currently 7 months out and upgrade from Y to PE is $1169, which is more than the fare difference to PE, so I will be holding for a while.