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On the CE fares, is everyone sure that these are bargains? Unless the starting Y fare is next to nothing (or at least less than £50), some of the upgrades quoted sound no more than the CE R fare. For instance LHR-DUS is only about £150 each way in CE, so is £100 extra each way for CE upgrade that good?

LHR -LAX 300pounds WT+ to J
LAX -LHR 350 pounds WT+ to J

yhis was about a month ago

LHR-JFK: £513.09 WT to WT+;
JFK-LHR: £326.40 WT to WT+.

'Save' :eek: £90.00 by upgrading both flights for a total cost of £749.49.
(future booking)

This correct unless your employer has a Y or W only policy for travel. The hit for the PAX will then only be the upgrade costs, which makes it ok to good value.

As always YMMV.

GBP399 J to F, HKG - LHR Autumn last year

For upgrades from ET to CE, I think the upgrade amount will usually bring your total payment to more than if you had booked CE in the first place. For example, LGW - AMS, the upgrade amount is £60, but the difference between ET and CE can be only £50 at the time of booking.

LHR-OSL 125 GBP

Seems that a zone two CE upgrade is about 125 GBP if LHR-VIE is 125 GBP. Only worth it for the TP

Am I correct in thinking upgrades at the airport do not earn the higher rate of tier points?

It would be good to know which of the rates quoted on this thread actually earn the related tier points.

Do TA Bookings get offered these?

Not until BA take over the ticket T-24.

£100 to upgrade from BRU-LHR and similiar, IIRC, for DUS-LHR from Y to J.

IST-LHR was more last year, but I am not sure - £150?

In December last year, I paid £125 for the upgrade to CE for LIN-LHR.

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Thanks, that is very good to know. A bit of an urban myth going on there then, I'm sure I have read that in some other threads.

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but given that BA miles can be purchased in increments of 1,000 (up to 19,000 per annum?) for GBP16 per 1,000 plus a GBP15 handling fee; i.e. 1,000 miles = GBP31 / 19,000 miles = GBP319, does anyone have any recent experience of good 'MFU with miles vs cash upgrade' scenarios?

Despite spending BA miles on a regular basis I've currently got circa 500k miles in our HHA, and having never actually purchased BA miles previously I sometimes suspect that purchasing miles might nonetheless be a good investment.