Reply To: Unpopular opinion: BA has made a bold move to preserve exclusivity

[BA Flyer IHG Stayer]

mecrash wrote:

Yes a few thousand of us scammers rinsing BA along the way will be gutted, just as I an..

Where and who are these “scammers”? Others have used the term “freeloaders”

Someone using and complying with an offer made on the open market isn’t auto automatically a scammer.

Many people made active decisions to change a putative flight only booking to a holiday one or turned a 4 night trip into a 5 night one because BA offered them extra tier points for doing so. And they paid BA extra cash. And to get the points they had to fly.

Sure there was some playing around in the margins but that’s because BA wrote loose T&Cs from the start but they soon changed them.

A few hundred people (if that) booking BA Hols to Sofia and then not collecting the car isn’t the cause of huge numbers of extra status passengers (and a reminder that BA controlled the offer and extended it several times so it’s a bit rich for them to complain about it now)

If people do ex-EU trips then that’s not illegal or immoral. It’s taking part in the commercial world. I’ve done a few such trips and my conscience is clear.

Yes I’ve gotten gold from doing it. But BA also got revenue from it. It’s not my fault that they give the same TPs in club for a cheapo fare as someone paying for a full fat fully flexible one.