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Old Nov 6, 2017, 7:45 am
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irishguy28
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Originally Posted by johan rebel
It was also extremely generous if you were based outside the Netherlands. I'll spare you the details, but I'll happily take the old Flying Dutchman over any current FF program.

Johan
So was BA Executive Club - for residents of continental Europe, there were far lower qualification thresholds.

Then they changed all that, which went down badly.

But a subsequent change was very good.

Instead of - as will be the case in FB's new scheme, and as was the case in the "old" version of BA Executive Club - clearing the Tier Points (their equivalent of "XPs") and resetting the "year" timer each time a new status was attained, they decided to NOT reset the TP/XP timer, and to NOT reset the "year" timer.

FB, however, have decided to go for the most customer-unfriendly version of the scheme - the "targets" are comparable to what they had in the old scheme, but they now re-set your XPs when you go up a level, thereby making it FAR harder to go up.

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