Originally Posted by
WorldLux
I seriously don't get the fuss about it. Sure it's not very customer-friendly towards people that don't hold status but it isn't that difficult to reach Bronze if you fly at least a return L/H in C and you won't die from not having a seat assignment months in advance.
Indeed. BA believes this approach works for them. It clearly favours those who have bronze or higher BA status, or those with equivalent OW status. It is definitely a benefit for those people. For those who are occasional BA travellers and have no BA/OW status it doesn't work so well. That has been noted in this thread, they are real reasons and do have some logic behind them.