Was on my LGW-MAN commute last night and I'd never seen so many silver tags dangling from the overhead bins in my life. When they called gold/silvers to board, half the plane got in line and that excluded the non silver/golides who were booted out of line.
Even more so, I was on the LHR-MIA flight the other week and saw a whole bunch of cabin crew with silver bag tags. How does that work? I've started noticing this more and more with BA cabin crew with these days.
Is it a perk of the job?
You can't earn status on non-rev flights and I doubt BA cabin crew would fly rev-fare for leisure.
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Lotta silvers out there..
Well cabin crew are still allowed to pay and fly on OW just like anyone else ?
In fact some are gold after a few AA tier point runs
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Was on my LGW-MAN commute last night and I'd never seen so many silver tags dangling from the overhead bins in my life. When they called gold/silvers to board, half the plane got in line and that excluded the non silver/golides who were booted out of line.
Even more so, I was on the LHR-MIA flight the other week and saw a whole bunch of cabin crew with silver bag tags. How does that work? I've started noticing this more and more with BA cabin crew with these days.
Is it a perk of the job?
You can't earn status on non-rev flights and I doubt BA cabin crew would fly rev-fare for leisure.
Just an observation.
I suspct BD matching has temporarily increased by quite a few the number of BA Silver and Golds.
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Many cabin crew and pilots commute to UK and European destinations.
They can use staff travel but many prefer to buy a revenue ticket and be sure of getting on the flight. Therefore they become members of the EC just like any other frequent flyer.
Some use a combination of both types of tickets depending on the passenger loads etc.
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There are many silvers out there, mainly due to it being actually quite easy to achieve.
Yes I've frequently read on here that a couple of JER-IAD-JER itineraries a year flying on SALE bought WT+ tickets UuA to CW will almost maintain your Silver status.
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Originally Posted by crystal_cad
I thought you made Gold BBB, has that expired or did I imagine it all...
I did make Gold, but that was two years ago... And, I only did that to benefit from the soft landing to retain status the following year as I would not be doing much revenue flying as I was on a burning year... I will always maintain Silver for the lounge and seat selection, plus addition Avios benefit, but not sure I will go any higher than that unless I am particularly bored one year...
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Never quite understood why people want to show their frequent flier bling quite so blatantly as using the bag tags. Always strikes me as a bit DYKWIA.
Mine hides in a Smythson tag, and placed back to front. If I have to check my wheelie in, I'd like to have a ready identification on it, but without the address. That's why it's there.
