Originally Posted by
Lobengula
As I understand it, we "Euros" are lucky only needing 400 for silver and then 800 for gold. But you must be silver before you get gold.
So you must earn 400 TP to get silver. Then you need 800 TP to get gold. So in total it's 1200 TP but can be earned in two membership years.
Funny, I always thought "eurocheat" was the definition of every silver/gold card holder outside the UK. I just realized that it refers to UK residents pretending to live on the mainland.
Hi Lobengula,
Really enjoyed the last paragraph, very good! Terrible how we are made to feel really inferior! All this hassle because we enjoy flying BA and using the UK as a gateway.
Just to clarify for other EX UK residents based in Europe, 1 round trip in First (intercontinental) transiting London gives enough TP´s for new member/0 Blue to jump to "Eurocheat Silver" in one go. This could of course happen within a couple of days, meaning that in theory you would only need just over 1 year to make "Eurocheat Gold".
BA are clever enough to realise that an incentive is necessary for us "Europeans" to transit the UK, when one sees the unlimited travel options available between Europe and the rest of the world.
Anyway, I wouldn´t fly any other airline unless there was a really good reason!