Reply To: Swapping Avois for Nectar

[Cranzle]

Perhaps slightl

Andrew J wrote:

The emotional logic also extends to legitimising the use of Avios to fly J or F – when you pay a few grand cash for a flight you might be thinking should I save this money for something else but with Avios, until recently, they had no everyday spending value, so why not fly J of F, and after all I’m saving thousands on the cash price! Which is why people like to not really think too much about what they could use their nectar for in day to day living as it takes away that excuse to use them for flights Which in most cases are hard to find and don’t partially represent good value for money.

Perhaps slightly connected to this thought process. I’ve been thinking about securing BA Gold status. However, I’m not sure what the benefits truely are for someone who would travel business or first anyway. You would get the lounge access, priority check in & boarding, extra baggage allowance with any business/first ticket.
It seems this status is only really benefical if travel economy for leisure and your employer pays for your buiness travel.
If you travel business/first out of choice, then I don’t see the benefit of achieving or maintaining status and you are also not tied to travel BA (and there are plenty of arguably better carriers when travelling east).