Originally Posted by
londonba2014
Hi,
I am a BAEC Blue, although I do fly regularly I will probably never move up a tier. However was wondering does anyone know if as the years go on if your joining date gives you priority over others within your tier on a flight, e.g on Standby lists?
Thanks
I don't think the joining date would have any effect- as
noFODplease says everyone has a Corporate Individual Value (CIV) score which is supposed to reflect spending with BA over a rolling period, but with the caveat that each tier (blue, bronze, silver, gold, GGL, premier) is limited to a particular range of scores. Therefore as a blue you will always have a lower CIV than the 5 year old who earned 320TPs and became bronze 22 months ago when they flew a club world flight with their family. Similarly, the gold who flies 100 sectors a year and spends many thousands on flexible flights will always have a lower CIV than the GGL who manages 5000TPs a year through creative routing on domestic F on AA. It's just a quirk of the system.
The good news is that FT can help you find those cheap TPs if you want to move up the ladder of 'status' with BA (whatever that's worth nowadays!
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