[lcsneil]

bettsd007 wrote:

Unless I’m not understanding correctly the examples BA have shared, but there is a situation where you can lose almost 9 months of tier status. If your Tier Point year end is 8th Nov 2024, you still keep status until the card expiry year end Dec 31 2024. If you reach gold status between Nov 9th 2024 and Dec 31st 2024 you’d have kept that gold status until Dec 31st 2026 (23 months). It seems that that now gets cut at April 1st 2026, a loss of 9 months status. Am I reading that wrong?

I also read that the same way. Expiry date 8th Oct 2024. Currently Gold and should renew gold with a flight that lands 31st Mar 24. No real flights of any significance planned 1st April – 8th Oct (only short haul economy).

Then card resets 8th Oct and then the next collection year is until 31st March 2025 (using the previous years added 1st April 24 – 7th Oct 24 as tier adjustment).

Status then changes on 1st April 25 which means I lose 8 months of Gold status as the chances of getting 1500 between 8th Oct & 31st March is slim.

Peoples tier point earning pattern isn’t linear throughout the year which is what BAEC are suggesting by their Tier Point Adjustment scheme…

My initial response is that BA wouldn’t dare do that… but actually yes they would. It just simplified it all for us and they knock out a load of lounge hogging Gold & Silver members. I bet there has been a lot of analysis done to work out the best time to do it to slash max number of status.

lcsneil