Originally Posted by Too much travel

As a BA Emerald who has now been based in HK for a decade, and having relatively recently started clocking points to Marco Polo instead (still only four months since Gold, but only 35k till Diamond), I can say from extensive personal experience that CX treats CX Golds better than OW Emeralds whether it is in the form of important unofficial benefits such as op-ups as well as less important but nice-to-have unofficial benefits such as personal greetings onboard flights. In fact, the reason why I have switched to Marco Polo from BAEC is precisely because of the better treatment.