AITA for using the reward points from our group trip to upgrade only my own flight?

Six friends asked me to book our flights and rental house because I had the highest credit limit. Everyone reimbursed me before the statement closed.

The booking earned enough credit-card points for one domestic upgrade. No one discussed the points. I did the comparison shopping, entered six passenger profiles and spent an evening fixing a misspelled name.

On the return flight, I used the points to move myself to a premium seat. I still sat in the same cabin, just with more legroom and earlier boarding.

My friend Owen noticed at the gate and asked how much I paid. I told him I used the points from the trip.

He said, “So we all bought you an upgrade?”

The others had not considered the rewards until then. Two friends thought they were a reasonable benefit for organizing. Three said the points should have reduced a shared expense or been divided somehow.

The awkward part is that I had already charged a small planning fee: everyone paid me $25 less than the travel agent quote we had rejected, and I kept the difference for my time. I had described that arrangement clearly. The points were never mentioned.

Owen says the fee defeats my claim that the upgrade compensated invisible work. I say rewards belong to the cardholder who carries the risk and handles the booking unless a group agrees otherwise.

Nobody asked me to move back, and the seat could not easily be reassigned. I enjoyed the extra space while five friends walked past me joking about “executive leadership.”

The upgrade was allowed by every formal rule we had. The question is whether I used that silence fairly.