I have a question for any of the corporate types who would care to answer and I apologise in advance if this seems like I'm having a go at you because I genuinely am not. I understand that some of you expect your employer to pay for J or better flights on some longer sectors. I am curious to know whether you ever use your FF points to upgrade a Y fare in cases like this? Or, instead, do you believe that the FF points in your account all belong to you, even if you've earned some (or indeed most) of them on business travel or, perhaps, by virtue of a corporate credit card?
I have asked this question of some of my team in the past and most tell me that they don't see any value in upgrading their business flights and that they would prefer to keep "their" points to use for family vacations. As a shareholder it seems perfectly obvious to me that a proportion of these points actually belongs to the company and should be used to offset the cost of a J class fare, for work purposes, where possible.