Originally Posted by
orbitmic
Well, that would be hilarious. Having lived two years in Texas and now being based in France, I can testify that the US is by far the easiest place to be based to achieve Gold. May I remind people not aware of the charts that a (often very affordable) F class return from BUF to LAX in First class on AA will earn EC account holders 480 TP, or if you had an extra segment at the Californian end of the trip 600 TP??! Those of us based in continental Europe would need to fork out at least 4 or 5 times more (if not more) to achieve the same.
And again, at the risk of repeating myself for the 200th time, I think some people on this forum vastly overestimate the number of Euro-cheats which presumably account for a few hundreds of people out of x million members at the very most.
With a continental EU address on file for a BAEC account, one or two rather cheap intra-US "first class" trips with one intra-EU roundtrip retain BA-issued OW Emerald status. How can it get easier than that?
Changing to a US address on file for a BAEC account would only increase the difficulty/expense of trying to retain BA-issued OW Emerald status.