How bad is flying economy these days?

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Harry Flashman said:

abzmike said:

pacenotes said:

Another tip if your PAYE, You can claim that £90 upgrade fee as a work expenses and get it as a tax write off if your traveling for work.

https://www.headforpoints.com/2020/05/23/can-you-c...

40% back on upgrades? Yes please!

Ah… who knew!
I can feel my Phoenix trip in July getting more comfortable already.

Now this is useful info! New travel policy at work means premium for anything less than 8 hours. Annoying as that's most of the northern US East Coast, which I go to a lot. This could ameliorate that very first world issue for me...

Having read the article & a lot of the comments it seems to be somewhat speculative. If it was a generally successful approach I'm sure we would have heard a lot more about it in the past.