FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - It's not so much the elite mileage accumulation, but the upgrade policies....

Sep 19, 2003 | 4:44 pm

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fenstere

Join Date: Jan 2002

Location: San Francisco, CA

Posts: 434

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by HobokenFlyer:
So, if you buy a ticket and 30K miles you get an upgrade? For 25K miles you get a free coach ticket. So, for your ticket price + 5K miles you get FC.
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Not true! When you purchase a ticket and upgrade, you earn miles. Imagine a gold elite flying Newark-San Francisco. By purchasing the ticket, he earns ~10,000 miles and 5,000 status miles. So, the upgrade costs him only 20,000 miles net.