BS. If he's selfish about his upgrades, he'll be selfish about other things where his comfort/interests are more important than hers.

When I gave my sister an Int'l F Award & was traveling w/ her, I bought an E ticket & upgraded to C. I could have given her a C award so we could travel together or even given her an E award & let her ride in the back, but I wanted her to experience Int'l F as it was her first trip out of the country & Int'l F is certainly much better than domestic F. You do stuff like that for people you care about.

Giving a non FF (especially one you supposedly care about if you're living w/ them) the upgrade would have been the right thing to do - or split it, so he gets it one way & she gets it the other if he didn't want to 'suffer' E for 10 hours out of his entire lifetime.

Still say to the boyfriend.

Cheers.