BA holidays double tier points booked before 30th December

[Mark B London]

My wife and I booked two BA holidays in October last year for June and July this year. Both club Europe, one to Tirana, Albania and Istanbul, Turkey. As I understand it, each leg qualified for 80 old tier points so 160 a trip doubles to 320 per trip ? Total of 640 plus whatever points we will eventually earn from BA Amex and a few other low earning teir point flights to push us into silver. I’ve have several different suggestions from different BA people, ie multiple by 13.2 and also told my July holiday won’t now qualify for double teir points. Can anyone explain what we will earn tier points wise under the new scheme? I bought status match to silver equivalent under RJ but have to call BA to select seats so want BA status to make it easier to book myself online .

[freckles]

Any BAH that met old rules (5 days hotel/car hire plus flights) booked before 30 Dev 2024 and that completes by 30 June 2025 will qualify for the double TP.
So if it would earn 160, doubled to 320, that is then converted by a factor of 13.35ish to nTP.

Anything after 30 June 2025 will earn under now rules* even if booked last year as far as I’m aware. The old DTP offer finishes at end June.
* I.e.TP based on total spend divided between the number of people on the booking

[AndrewT]

I mostly agree 🙂 The Double TP offer was book by Dec 30th for travel by June 30th, the multiplier is 13.33 rounded up.

So the June trip earns 80 x 13.33 = 1,067 each way, 4,268 total with BAH bonus.

The July trip still earns 1,067 each way as it was booked last year, but no BAH bonus so 2,134 total.

[NorthernLass]

OP, you’ve been done over somewhat there. If you haven’t already paid the balance, consider whether it’s actually worth it for what you’re going to get out of it in terms of the status you were hoping for. Going off @AndrewT’s figures, you and your wife would need another 1500 TPs each to get Silver, so it depends whether it’s worth making the extra investment.

[NorthernLass]

You only needed 600 TPs to get to Silver under the old system, so the 2 BAH’s would have easily got you there.

[freckles]

Under old scheme, the July holiday wouldn’t have earned DTP, so OP would only ever have got 160×2 = 320 plus another 160 = 480 in total so wouldn’t have met the 600 needed for silver. They would have been 80% there.

Revised converted earnings will get them 85% of silver if I’m adding up correctly

[AndrewT]

Yes in that respect you do end up slightly better off at Bronze & Silver levels as the threshold changes varied in percentage terms. The multiplier is derived from the Gold thresholds, 20,000 (new) / 1,500 (old) = 13.33.

Where you get stuffed of course is now needing another £1,500 or so of spend to make up the difference, where as before another £300 160TP CE return would do the job.

[Mark B London]

Thanks for all your replies! I do feel aggrieved that I booked these under the old system to qualify for silver just to save money on seat selection and the odd use of the lounges. I mainly book Business anyway with lounge access but all long haul is with points rewards! Both of us use BA Amex and each earn a 2-4-1 voucher. I’ve been hanging off using Amex on some large bills until BA inform us how we can earn TPs with the card! Just paid a late accountants bill of £8k with Amex as I couldn’t hold off any longer but should have pushed my wife over the £15k spending for another 2-4-1 this year. BA promised us the TPs on Amex information for the beginning of April. I could cancel the second holiday in July, 8 days with car hire and lose the £150 deposit, but flights to Tirana have now doubled in price and my two grown up children decided to come with us so I booked them separate economy flights (in the January sale) only no luggage as both my wife and I have the Club Europe two 32kg cases limit, each of them can be our lounge guests so cancelling doesn’t really make sense. Why BA couldn’t honour all existing bookings seems very unfair, would it really have costed much? Rushing through this new scheme and not explaining all methods of earning TPs nearly 6 months later is frustrating. Do I book another trip to push us over the silver line or will Amex earn me the TPs?