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… plus the double TP offer ending …
To clarify It’s not dropping quite yet!
It has been extended to the end of the year so still quite useful for a lot of people.
I’ve made use if it several times already and it’s was a boon last year to get me over the thresholds to Gold and then a GUF.
I have never valued BA status, never chased it and never had it. Being able to select seats on booking is the only thing I would appreciate but I can accept whatever seats I get at checkin. But then I am ok with travelling economy too. I value hotel statuses and points way more….I spend a matter of hours in the air but days in a hotel!
I have gold with Singapore kris flyer, and I’ve held it for 18 months. In that time, I haven’t set foot on one of their planes nor any of their partners’ planes. It is therefore useless to me until I do.
I have BA Silver, I guess I’m in my 8th year. When I was a frequent economy flyer in Europe, BA Silver was fantastic. Seat selection was marvellous and sometimes you got a better lounge than PP offered.
I don’t fly BA often enough to feel that I would be likely to be able to get silver again. I’ll have to start factoring in seat selection fees when comparing prices with easyJet from late this year when I drop to Bronze. It’s a shame, but maintaining Silver is not something I’m going to spend time and money pursuing. If I was commuting for work again by plane on a BA route, I might feel quite differently about that.
Having said that I have a pile of BA vouchers to spend. When I come to use them I might favour a route that stretches the TPs. But I can’t see it making the required difference, and I won’t spend any of my own money trying.
Bronze – little value.
CW seat choice is very important, CS all the same so choice of no real importance.Even with CS seat choice is important if you want the best chance of a full menu choice as you need to be toward the front of the seats to be sure they won’t have run out of the more popular dishes 😛
I don’t fly BA often enough to feel that I would be likely to be able to get silver again. I’ll have to start factoring in seat selection fees when comparing prices with easyJet from late this year when I drop to Bronze.
Unless you are happy to pick your seats 7-days before as bronze allows.
Seat selection is far from guaranteed regardless of status unless you are Gold and have booked Row 1.
I can’t remember a time when my final aircraft was the one indicated when I booked. My most recent flight had three equipment changes in the final week, for example – 781 to 789 to 781 to 788. My final seat was miles from the original one and I had no choice in the matter. As long as you sit with your travelling companion, I put seat selection firmly in the First World Problem category.
I don’t fly BA often enough to feel that I would be likely to be able to get silver again. I’ll have to start factoring in seat selection fees when comparing prices with easyJet from late this year when I drop to Bronze.
Unless you are happy to pick your seats 7-days before as bronze allows.
I’m not. Doesn’t matter if it’s BA or Easy, if I’m in economy I want an exit row or similar, aisle side. I bag the seat I want when I’m booking. For long flights on Easy I’ve been known to book a cello seat beside me for the “mock club” experience too. Caused a complete row on one flight when a displaced member of cabin crew tried to take “my” (paid for) empty seat!
I’m not. Doesn’t matter if it’s BA or Easy, if I’m in economy I want an exit row or similar, aisle side. I bag the seat I want when I’m booking. For long flights on Easy I’ve been known to book a cello seat beside me for the “mock club” experience too. Caused a complete row on one flight when a displaced member of cabin crew tried to take “my” (paid for) empty seat!
Datapoint: just looked at a return to Amsterdam in May. BA HBO is £ 145, from City. EasyJ with their cabin bag and seat selection package is £ 155 from Gatwick. So, if I was booking today, thanks to Silver, BA win. Next year the same business would almost certainly go to Easy, although if the travel cost to Gatwick is high enough I guess it might swing back. The savings from Silver aren’t huge, per flight, but can really help if you fly frequently.
BACF from LCY wins for me, unless Easy is massively cheaper.
@cats_are_best For what it’s worth Gold and Silver will get you in the same lounge in the USA. The posher Chelsea lounge at JFK needs GGL (or a ticket in First) and by all reports in underwhelming and very inconsistent on entry, with many GGL being sent to the Soho (Gold/Silver) lounge.
If I’m not mistaken, Gold gets you the Soho lounge and silver Greenwich?
If I’m not mistaken, Gold gets you the Soho lounge and silver Greenwich?
Interesting, I didn’t realise that. In the old Flagship/Admirals setup Gold and Silver got you in the Flagship. I checked a couple on oneworld and that’s seems to still be the case so JFK is an exception. I guess it’s a result of this now being the BA lounge.
A good friend who is cash rich, time short and usually needs a bit of a boost in order to qualify for Gold every year. I have family who live in Scotland, I’m more than happy to impersonate him in return for a free trip home.
How on earth does that work?
Presumably domestic trips where they don’t ask for ID …
Yep he says Scotland. My understanding is on domestics they check that the person that goes through security is the person that flies. They don’t check ID in as much as the person who is flying is named on the ticket.
So they are carrying the ID of the person they are impersonating! What I don’t understand is how the crew figured this out and followed up with a “vice-like grip”. @DHOTYA
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