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How does BA bronze/silver/gold membership expiry work?
Just started with it, reading the BA Web site and I’m puzzled on how it works, specifically how it expires.
We’ve just done a holiday in Toronto flying business, and got an email that I’m bronze, and need 40 points for silver
… rats, so close to silver 😕
… really fancy the ability to book seats on bookingThe web page says I can collect tier points until end of March 2025
– so what happens then?
– do I just revert to blue?And what happens if we do something like a city break in Europe to get at least 40 points to get to silver …
– again come March, am I back to blue?
– presume the next year we start collecting again?It seems like we can only get the bronze/silver/gold benefits for later flights in the collection year 😕
When you earn status you keep that status on your next year … so if you become silver before March 2025 you will remain silver from March 2025 to end of March 2026.
You will then drop to bronze for 2026-2027.
@yonasi Thanks for helping.
So you go down a “step”? … e.g. if we’re bronze, we’ll drop to blue?Assuming we are just bronze by end March 2025, what happens in the next collection year, ie. April 2025-2026
Presume we’ll start afresh with 0 tier points, working towards the 2 flights and 300 points for bronze, 4 & 600 for silver, etc.
And if we get bronze in 2025-26, we’ll then stay bronze in 2026-27, and then drop to blue in 2027-28 ?Hopefully I’m starting to get how it works🤞
Correct on all counts.
Thanks for the pointer
I think it doesn’t really affect us as we’re just starting BAEC in June 2024, so our account page shows us as tier collection year ends March 2025
Bit worried the page shows membership card as expiring 30th April 2026 😯
Presumably this will roll forward if we continue to take BA flights ?The expiry is correct because all status collection years will run April to March but they will give you a months grace before dropping you to the level below. So basically everyone that earns status this next year regardless will have an expiry on 30th April 2026.
Very disappointed achieved Bronze this year BA moves the goal posts with the collection year get my tier points collected from April to June moved forward to the new shortened year account says I need only 160 to reach silver then a few days later BA changes it to I need 160 points to retain Bronze. They certainly know how to play fast and loose
Very disappointed achieved Bronze this year BA moves the goal posts with the collection year get my tier points collected from April to June moved forward to the new shortened year account says I need only 160 to reach silver then a few days later BA changes it to I need 160 points to retain Bronze. They certainly know how to play fast and loose
No ones collection year was shortened.
I suggest you read the link Richoe posted above
Technically it has been shortened for 24-25 but they will then look back at the points earned between 1st April 2024 and 31st March and decide what your status should be.
But still @Coypi’s comment makes no sense because it sounds like they’ve mixed up when their last year ended and their current one started rather than BA changing anything yet.
The mis-reporting of the next progression step is one of the recent ‘features’ of the app which has been mentioned in other posts. Mine was telling me that I was going to become GGL when I reached 1500 TP, but has now correctly reverted to ‘retain Gold’.
There can’t really be any confusion between 160 TP to reach Silver vs retain Bronze. You’ve either currently got 140 or 440 and it seems unlikely you don’t know which.
@steveculshaw you wrote
“just starting BAEC in June 2024, so our account page shows us as tier collection year ends March 2025Bit worried the page shows membership card as expiring 30th April 2026”
What that means is that you have Bronze status until 30 April 2026. If you earn status in your current year to March 2025, which you did, then your status is earned for the remainder of the current year and all of the following year (hence the 30Apr2026 date)
So if you do nothing else you will only lose Bronze status on 1 May 2026. If you get the extra 40TP before 31 March 2025 you will gain Silver and also maintain that until 30 Apr 2026. On 1 May 2026 you’d drop to Bronze valid until 30 Apr 2027.
However on 1 Apr 2025 your TP counter will reset to zero and you need to earn another 600TP for Silver by 31 Mar 2026 to maintain that status for another 12 months to 30 Apr 2027.
The app clearly stated 145 more points to reach Silver when my points were forwarded, then a week later they changed it to 145 to retain Bronze. Seems a bit rum to me
145 or 160? How many TPs do currently you have?
The app clearly stated 145 more points to reach Silver when my points were forwarded, then a week later they changed it to 145 to retain Bronze. Seems a bit rum to me
What are your collection year end dates?
Separately how many TPs have you earned since the 1st April.
It’s hard to give advice in a vacuum of information.
Rather than worry about the message the app was telling you why not look at when your TP year starts/ends and how many you’ve earned since then.
You need 300/2 flights for bronze or 600/4 flights for silver in your tp collection year. It’s not rocket science.
No goal posts have been moved in the past year.
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