It would be easy to understand the philosophy behind the points discrepancies if partners singled out the other partners who do not allocate points to their FF members evenly and penalise them, but in most cases that I looked at (LH being the exception), then *A upgrade awards for one partner require uniform points regardless of the partner airline your FF program is with.

e.g. UA and TG seem (as far as I can tell) to aware members of each others FF programs equal points to what they would award their own members (besides loyalty bonus miles etc). In this case you would think that the miles have somewhat equal value, and perhaps the upgrade awards could be provided equally as well.

I would have thought that one of the points of *A upgrade awards would be to encourage *A FF to try and stick within the *A network when they are flying on their non standard routes, instead of perhaps choosing a OW partner instead.

I know there are lots of reasons why it is the way it is, guess I am just having a rant Now who do I blame for not being allowed to transfer AMEX awards to UA MP