Originally Posted by
alex0683de
A third possible reason could be that someone needs the status miles for a status requalification. If you fly on a C award - no miles at all. If you fly Y and upgrade, you at least get the Y miles for your flights.
Could make a big difference in years where requalification is a close call.
Is that still true? I read here a while ago (I can't find the thread at the moment though) that they no longer give you the status miles for Y, but rather the status miles for the booking class you paid for (so, 100% or less, as opposed to 150%). If that's true, I guess that lessens the value of an upgrade (upgrading and getting 150% status miles made me make FTL last year - I wouldn't have made it otherwise).
Paying 50.000 miles for an upgrade while getting 150% of status miles instead of 100% might make it worth it for me, in a year that I need to re-qualify for FTL, but don't have a chance to get a decently priced Z-Class ticket - but if I will only get the status miles for the booking class I paid for (G, H, K, M, Q, S, V, W or even E, L, T or U) it might not.
Martin