Reply To: Tier points grace period – still available in 2024?

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tiriavpo wrote:

Richie wrote:

Were the flights before 23:59 8th January 24?

Although the term ‘grace period’ is ambiguous (used variously to refer to the 7 or so weeks of status after the end of the TP collection year – or the mythical 2-week period after the 8th when BA was historically quite happy to ‘backdate’ TPs to the previous year) I think the OP is referring to flights taken after the 8th, and hoping to have them allocated to the previous year.

Pre-covid, this was so commonly applied that it was accepted as standard behaviour. During covid, they cracked down, especially when people were asking for back dated TPs to achieve the already reduced TP thresholds. Since then I’m not sure it has re-appeared – and with all of the staff turnover, and the fact that it was never a published procedure, I fear you might be lucky. It would be interesting to hear of any success stories.

Conversely, there have been several reports recently of people not achieving their target (not even close) but having their status retained. So who knows.

Thanks very much all, although not the confident “it’ll be fine” response I was hoping for! (Especially jerseyboys directly analogous experience…)

Yes this is the situation – I am referring to the “mythical two weeks” after the 8th. What’s a bit annoying is that I had a perfect plan to upgrade a flight in early Jan to club Europe (in which case I would have cleared the silver threshold without needing the grace period) but then that flight got cancelled and I got shoved to a non-one world airline so I never got the opportunity to do my planned upgrade hence had to rely on a last-minute additional flight in the grace period.

I’d been under the impression that the covid ‘strictness’ was in relation to people trying to combine the 2 week grace period concept with the special reduced Covid thresholds. It does seem to be an “unofficial” policy but I’d seen it mentioned enough times (including by the official BA account on twitter) that I thought I could safely rely on it.

Either way, I’m a bit surprised they’ve taken over a month to get back to me – feels like it should have been a quick yes/no in principle.