Originally Posted by
seanp7
Call them and let them know your planned travel on BA that may get you Gold this year (or write). There's a chance that they will renew you after consideration (and possibly without a fee) - last year a slew of folks who did not travel 4 BA flights or many BA flights at all that were renewed based on past flight history, ash disruptions, planned travel, etc. I don't know the science behind it; we just know that they do renew folks who didn't officially qualify in a membership year.
I don't think there was any science behind it at all. Last year, I was renewed automatically at Silver despite only having 300-and something points and only one previous year at Silver. A colleague who'd had silver for 5 years and was 20 points short had to plead with BAEC to renew him. In the end they extended his membership year by a few more weeks so that he could take an extra flight to get the 20 missing points.