Firstly I have just joined flyer talk and find it very informative, also joined BA Executive Club one month ago through BA Amex came back last week, after a BA flight London Heathrow to San Francisco, stayed there a few days then took an internal flight with Virgin America to Las Vegas for a further few days, another internal flight with Virgin america to New York stayed another few days, and finally took a BA flight back to London, where we were given an upgrade to Businesses Class, I've accumulated over 20,000 avious points over the last month so happy so far with BA and their points system, we have another 6 flights booked from now until Christmas so hoping to upgrade again on these in the very near future.