Originally Posted by
Gardyloo
If status in the BAEC is your goal, then you also need four BA-metal flights per tier (Blue > Silver, Silver > Gold) and your itinerary only has four, so if you want to max out TPs (and need a two status tier bump) you'll also need to fly more BA segments once your TP total has reset to nil after the first tier has been achieved. (Hope that makes sense.)
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I thought you only needed to take 4 BA metal flights per year not per BAEC level? I've only ever taken 4 qualifying flights each year for the last few years and even when I was qualifying, I don't recall having to take 8 BA flights when moving from Blue to Silver to Gold?