Originally Posted by
rolandasmx
MNManInKen, I was smiling reading your post. Do you work for BA? Haha.
No. Never have. No interest in doing so either.
Originally Posted by
rolandasmx
My general comment was that yes, it's all about spending and I do not expect free lunch.
If that is what you
wanted to post, it is certainly not what you
did post.
Originally Posted by
rolandasmx
All in all, I am not making any fuss about it or encouraging clamour.
Originally Posted by
rolandasmx
Btw, lifelong tier level membership is not a laughable concept, while BA does not offer that, other airlines, like South African Airlines of Star Alliance, Finnair and Qantas of OneWorld, all SkyTeam alliance do. BMI before BA purchase used to offer.
No one said that the concept as such was laughable. What is laughable is lifelong membership in return for the type of spend/flights that get you to current status levels.
I happen to think lifelong status is economically very hard to make work for airlines and some past experiences have demonstrated the difficulties with it, but certainly to make it work it would require spend and commitment well in excess of anything currently applicable to the BAEC programme.