Originally Posted by
Rexy52
I was BA Gold for two years in 2008/9 and saw very little difference from several years' prior Silver membership. My first experience after about 6 weeks was a cancelled flight from IAD to LHR, when I was called and told I had been downgraded from WT+ to WT on the next day's flight (which then took about 40 minutes on the phone to sort out). I was once upgraded on an Iberia domestic flight (so a glass of free cava). Apart from the First check-in and slighly nicer lounges, neither of which is that big a deal, returning to Silver hasn't made me feel I've missed anything much.
I was gch until last year and will be one again in a couple of weeks -it was interesting, I thought I got upgrades to F more often as silver, but as Gold I got the upgrades that matter, such as back from Syd all the way. On the routes I flew most, the upgrade was rare but whenever I've booked WT+ I've flown club.
The one irregular long haul flight which suffered quite a long delay 2 years ago (8+hrs at LHR, which is the longest delay I have suffered with BA) was resolved by being offered any alternative airline I wanted without any pressure to remain on BA - in fact, the opposite as they wanted to ensure I reached my destination and they could not guarantee a departure time.
Presumably, a lot of decisions were made on the score which was pretty high during that time rather than the colour of the card.
Now I have to ask myself, why bother with Gold
