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Double tier points from the BA Holidays promotion are (finally) starting to post

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One of the most attractive promotions currently running is the ‘double tier points’ offer from BA Holidays.

If you book a ‘flight and hotel’ or ‘flight and car’ package for 5+ nights via BA Holidays, for trips where the outbound flight takes place by 31st October 2022, you will receive double tier points on your flights.

This could be hugely attractive. For example, until 31st December 2022, you only need 450 Executive Club tier points for Silver status, which gets you lounge access. Even if you didn’t requalify, you’d get a soft landing for the next year, giving a year of Bronze and its seat selection benefit.

Double tier points from BA Holidays starting to post

You could get a Silver card from scratch in one trip. For example, booking Manchester to Corfu in Club Europe, you would get (40 + 80 + 80 + 40) x 2 = 480 tier points. You get a holiday and up to 25 months of BA lounge access and free seat selection, depending on the timing of your British Airways year end.

Your soft landing to Bronze would give a further 12 months of ‘free seat selection within seven days of departure’, meaning up to 37 months of benefits.

There is one snag. Whilst this offer has now been running for almost 18 months, British Airways has been unable to find a way of punctually posting the double tier points. A few people have reported receiving them, often after making a complaint, but they appear to be in the minority.

(To be honest, I think BA Holidays made a mistake by not making this an ‘opt in’ offer. This has substantially increased the administration required, and the majority of the people who are now receiving bonus tier points won’t even know they were ever due them.)

Over the last couple of weeks, however, I have received multiple emails from people who have finally received their points. Here is one I got over the weekend:

“Have just received 280 BA Tier points today that emanated from a CW flight booking LHR-JFK-BOS-LHR outbound 17 Dec 2021 inbound 4 Jan 2022!!! Unbelievable!”

So, there is progress of sorts here.

How many tier points would you need for BA status?

This offer is still running for another two months. If you wanted to push for status it seems that the odds of actually getting your double tier points to turn up have improved.

Remember that, until 31st December:

  • Bronze status in BA Executive Club requires 225 tier points (was 300)
  • Silver status in BA Executive Club requires 450 tier points (was 600)
  • Gold status in BA Executive Club requires 1,125 tier points (was 1,500)

That said, the posting is still random:

  • some people are getting them backdated to the date of their original flights, which is what the rules say will happen
  • some people are getting them posted with the current date, which has messed up their plans to earn status (although some other readers have found this convenient!)

If BA Holidays has now found a way of posting the double tier points, it should be less of an issue. Hopefully they will post promptly after your flight.

Full details of the ‘double tier points’ offer can be found on BA Holidays here. Remember that you need to book by 22nd October and take your outbound flight by 31st October.

PS. If you are still missing bonus tier points from this offer, you will find various emails you can use to complain in this dedicated thread in our forum. Sometimes they get a result, sometimes they don’t …..


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Comments (91)

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  • TeesTraveller says:

    Mine posted this weekend for a trip to the US in back March/April and they have dropped into the current TP year (which is fine). Still waiting for BA to hand over the EU261 & hotel expenses for the delayed flight home (which they agreed to about 3 weeks ago) plus work out the refund on correct ticket price after downgrading us on the LHR-NCL leg (and sort the 20 x 2 TP adjustment as well).

  • ChrisC says:

    Double TPs for a trip that ran 29th June – 4th July auto posted on 19th August. The usual points for the flights has previously posted as normal.

    Listed in my account on the website as

    “Transaction 29th June / Posted 19th August BA Holidays tier point award”

    But on the app it just shows the posted date.

    What’s also seems to be happening is a correction post for the BA Holidays avios bonus.

    The original allocation posted on the 11th July with a transaction days of 29th June but as I’d used a voucher I was “missing” 96 avios (the value of the voucher) from the original posting and those 96 posted with

    “Transaction date 29th June / Posted 26th August – Avios BA Holidays award”

    But again the app only shows the posting date.

    So use the web version if you are trying to match the TPs / avios to your trip date records as it will make the reconciliation easier.

    I hadn’t made any contract with BA about either of these “missing” items (though it was on my list).

  • Ed says:

    I’d already had mine credited after emailing a few times to chase, so I actually received triple points on two trips to the states.

    Unfortunately not enough to push me into gold though!

  • Alan Vickers says:

    My mid July Texas trip was credited with the DTP last Monday ( 22/08) first time without any prompting from me.

    Alan

  • Chris Cannon says:

    Question on the promo. Does everyone on the booking get the offer or just the person booking?

  • Alan T says:

    We got an unexpected drop for a trip last March that AFAIK did not meet the criteria and a ‘double up’ on ones I’d made a manual claim for!

    No extra status benefits as we’d already triggered Gold.

    Got a ‘retrigger” trip coming up in October, wonder if it auto post and how quick before the 31st Dec cut off?

  • Blair Waldorf Salad says:

    Is it Rob or Rhys in that infinity pool pic?

  • Ian says:

    just noticed that I am on 670 tier points!

    Better get 2 more ba flights to actually get Silver 😂

    Not going to reach 1500 for Gold, although I think that is reduced as well as long as I reach it by December? (not sure)

    • ChrisC says:

      Yes the reduced target applies until the end of December.

      When does your current collection year end?

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