Someone on Twitter just tweeted about the post on this site, describing how business class on flights is hurting this summer.

Delta is actually offering a Business class upgrade for 1 mile for certain coach fares, good til September 15.

And to think we "spent" 60,000 miles each to upgrade to business on our upcoming trip to England. Bought the tickets in March.

Hi

Yes, with the economic crises the airlines are really seeing decline in First and Business class passengers and there have been lots of great offers. We flew from London to Asia on business class with Emirates for 2100$ which is a great price. For a while Emirates was also offering free upgrade from business to First. But upgrading from economy to business is worth every point in my opinion :-)