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My tier point year ends 8/12/22. I’m thinking of booking LHR-Boston return in 1st outbound 2/12/22 and return 7/12/22. I have a couple of questions:
I have 2 paid flights and 50 tier points already but will a return on 7/12/22 be early enough to credit tier points for current year to maintain silver status? Secondly, will extra tier points credit for next year rather than be backdated?
ThanksNo. The flight gets 240 – not enough to hit 400 – so you need those doubled TP from BA Holidays.
It is hit and miss when they hit and what date shows. Wait and see and if it is not in your favour, contact BA and they will upgrade you (and you may end up keeping the ones that drop into the new year.)
The way I read your plans, you would get 210 TPS for travelling in First from LHR to BOS, and the same back again if also in First. That you’ll give you 420, plus the 50 you already have , so would get you over the 450 you need?
LHR-BOS will earn you 210 in First (A/F). BOS-LHR will earn you 210 in First (A/F).
That’s 420 off the bat, plus your 50, is 470, so you’ll end up with Silver status for the remainder of this year (they post three or so days afterwards, usually) and all of next. So, in this regard, I agree with Nectar Collector and, of course, as Rob says, make a fuss if they don’t turn up and they should work it out for you.If you do it via BA Hols, then you’ll end up with the double TP promo, so your return trip would give you 840 TPs. Plus your 50, and that gets you 890, which isn’t enough to earn Gold, but you’d be able to get that in 2024 if you earned 610 before the 8th Dec. 2023, which would give you Silver for the remainder of this year and all of next, until/if you earn the extra 610 (e.g. this same trip in CW), when you’d get Gold for the remainder of that year and all of 2024, and then a soft-landing to Silver from 8th Dec. 2024 until 8th Dec. 2025, at which point you’d drop to Bronze until 8th Dec. 2026.
Or, you could make your LHR-BOS trip cheaper, and just do it in CW on a BA Hols (noting that the BA Hols price for CW might not be cheap!). That way, you’d get 280 return, doubled via the Double TPs offer to make 560, plus your 50 is 610, which would put you over the Silver threshold. Sometimes, the difference in fare between J and F is minimal (and, to be honest, BA F is basically a good business class, but I did quite enjoy Club Suites lately, so don’t see myself forking out for F any time soon), but it can be a good wedge.
Looking at 1st for both legs and a BA HOLS booking. So if standard tier points for return flight don’t post by 8/12 I’ll contact BA and ask them to do a manual adjustment so I’ll maintain silver until 8/22/23. Thanks for the prompt and helpful replies.
If you did the same shortly after 8 November instead, you would then get 840 points and qualify for Silver through to November 2024…..
If you did the same shortly after 8 November instead, you would then get 840 points and qualify for Silver through to November 2024…..
Sorry should say December not November……
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