Reply To: Paid for PE & BA holiday in Dubai for Jan: guess how much to upgrade?

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sxparkin wrote:

I asked as an experiment hoping it was £ 500 or so as per past experience – BA are truly on a drive for revenue/ profit it seems – a whopping £ 3,900 each to upgrade to Business return

Supply/demand. You can upgrade, but they’ll have to bump someone in a lower fare bucket and pay compensation/hotel costs.

A couple of years ago I had 3xF LHR<->SFO for £7k total (inc double TP via BAH). The cash cost was then £17k per ticket (£51k for 3xF). If you need to get the flight, they will bump me in a heartbeat. And, reluctantly, I’d applaud them for it!