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Well according to the article I’ve posted a link to on the daily chat, they might be trialling coke-vending machines in the loos…
🤣 Not sure I’d like to be snorting off those surfaces though!!
So you spent £558 to get to paris and got 9% on the way to silver. Yet the blogs are showing that under AY and IB schemes a spend of around £1700 could get you Emerald status and retain it.
It is of course not as simple as that and there are things you need to do, but I’d suggest that while a few travellers whose employers are pay for their airfares and frankly are mad enough to pay £558 to fly to Paris, will be far from happy once they see BA lounges filled with IB and AY frequent fliers and being there on a fraction of the revenue.
How much do you have to do on Say AY metal to get status with them , as opposed to crediting BA flights to them. If it’s substantial may mean having to fly indirect
So you spent £558
No, OP didn’t spend any of his money.
Can’t believe so many miss this point.No, OP didn’t spend any of his money.
Can’t believe so many miss this point.Doesn’t mean that you should automatically credit to BA
So you spent £558
No, OP didn’t spend any of his money.
Can’t believe so many miss this point.By his firm buying an expensive fare, helped lower fares for all us leisure travellers be grateful
Why the big thing against business travellers getting status.
I fly on my own dime. 2 days ago I paid 500 CHF for an economy seat from ZRH to LYC. The timing was better than the much cheaper LCC. That is how I decide which airline I fly for my monthly biz class flight from Asia to Europe and back. Of course it also depends on which city I’m departing from and to which city I need to go. It happens that I’m top tier in all three airline alliances (Star Alliance twice).
I am a BA gold but I’ve just credited my first flight to Qatar. For me it not a problem getting top tier with Qatar because I often fly their metal anyway. In fact I don’t really notice because I fly business class anyway.
The only airline that manages the different types of traveller well is Singapore airlines. They have PPS club which is entirely revenue-based on premium cabins for corporate travellers (note a £500 economy fare would not count towards PPS status in SQ). They also run Krisflyer which is a bog standard milage based system. PPS is treated much better than *G in SQ. Similar to BA GGL and Premier over BA Gold. BA should have implemented a similar system to SQ and raised the threshold for its tier point system to match Qatar, Which worked out to one extra round trip to Asia each year (in old money)
Of course the tier point run shenanigans should not be encouraged, so at least that’s probably dead, to the benefit of the environment. I no longer have the burden of contriving four flights on BA a year, which means that BA will likely miss out on the two business class trips I did last year booked with BA (one to Vancouver the other to Singapore).
Hopefully, BA will improve its lounge offerings at Heathrow which have deteriorated over the years. I look forward to finding out as a Qatar Platinum, with no need to spend a dime with BA (though I will not avoid BA on purpose). BA has decided to divorce me.
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