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Renewed Silver on 40th flight. How many in the "50 flight" club?
As per the title, I just renewed Silver on my 40th BA flight since the 8th Feb. Helped recently by a couple of £69 CE upgrades, otherwise it would have been around the 46 flights mark and cutting it fine before 8th Feb next year. So how many here have done it with the full 50 flights? I have to say, 40 was enough of a grind for 600 points - other than the two recent CE sectors, all of the rest were in ET. Phew!
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Never needed 50 for Silver but did reach 36-ish flights a couple of years ago when doing almost all domestics with a small number of economy hops to AMS thrown in before I reached 600 TPs. Would be painful to do it with 50 flights and still fewer than 600 TPs! I wonder also whether anyone has ever actually reached Silver this way...
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Did silver in the old days on about 60 flights. Don't know the exact number but did 136 sectors over the year in which I earned and then renewed silver, from a standing start. After the last flight of the 12 month period, circumstances changed and my flying stopped such that I never used the silver card again!
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Renewed Silver on 40th flight. How many in the "50 flight" club?
Plenty of us on EDI and GLA are v grateful for the 50 flight qualifying, which is only two returns a month or so to London on discount. I usually have at least one TATL, and a couple of Euros, and you can always revert to full fare and higher TPs if you are in danger of missing silver. But many thanks to BA for standing by commuters...EDI has always been a big revenue earner
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I'm sitting at 510 TP and 41 flights since my match from BD earlier in the year. So in theory I might renew on both simultaneously... (though I don't actually need to renew until 2014, so my hard-earned TP will be unceremoniously dumped in the bin, unused)
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I think that anyone who gets close to or across the 50 sector mark to renew silver deserves an honourable mention in 'despatches'.
However, along time ago in a galaxy far far away (the mid 1990s) when BA used to give away a leather document folder for their gold members, I reached gold three years in a row without a single premium class sector and all on deeply discounted economy. It was in the days before they reduced the number of tier points for discounted flights (so that part didn't matter). All regular trips from GLA/ABZ to LHR and the occasional Y transatlantic.
I think I have one of those old leather document folders somewhere...
Renewed Silver on 40th flight. How many in the "50 flight" club?
Did last year - 50 flights in Y to Europe. This year however, a couple of returns in C to South Africa plus a few flights to Moscow andTLV helped me reach Gold last week. Was a slog in 2011/12 though!
I claim membership of that exclusive club. 52 sectors last year (26 returns) - almost all in M / O fare buckets - mostly work with a couple of leisure trips for good measure. Oh, and a LH redemption.
This year however, a couple of returns in C to South Africa plus a few flights to Moscow andTLV helped me reach Gold last week. Was a slog in 2011/12 though!
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