Originally Posted by
thedoctor
I have already earned the CCR card and was really just wondering whether anybody knew what factors influenced Premier status but it seems clear from this that nobody is very sure.:
But we are sure and have told you this.
You have to be in control or influence a big budget spend. You will find at top directors at various large corporates, banks and law firms where BA is the preferred airline are invited to be Premier.
I believe someone previously posted on this forum that he contacted BA about this. He may have had a BA contact for his corporate relationship. He has a smallish firm but a large (cannot recall but I think it was about circa £1 million) spend on travel. BA thought about it and granted him Premier status. That is the only time I have seen on this forum where the invitation was initiated by the Op rather than purely through a BA.
If you can only influence spend on £200,000, this is probably insufficient clout.
Now if your travel is business related and you work for a firm/organisation to puts travel through BA, it would be interesting to compare your travel spend to your firms travel spend. If ther are about 5 to 10 fellow works like you, I suspect someone senior in your firm is already a Prem based on your travel!