I'm hoping a gold member may be able to offer some advice to me on this situation. I'm new to the forum, and fairly new to the whole miles and tier points game (currently 23 and have only been an active BAEC member for around 2 years), and this definitely looks like the right site to ask these questions on, so hi! I'm currently mid collection year and going to accrue around what I'd expect to be the average number of TP for me per year in the foreseeable future, somewhere between 1,000 and 1,400 depending on a couple of upcoming trips that I've not yet booked, putting me at Silver membership. I only fly for leisure, mainly east coast transat routes from LHR, sometimes west coast (my partner lives between the UK, USA, and Canada), the majority of the time I fly in J, sometimes in WTP, and sometimes in F.

At the moment with the exception of when I'm in WTP I feel that Silver benefits are somewhat redundant as you almost get them all when travelling J anyway. I'm anticipating the additional trip cost of gold being somewhere around the £1000 to £1500 mark. I'm not so keen on doing a overnight TP run, so it'd be from an additional trip or two, most likely CE+ routes. But these are trips I otherwise wouldn't be doing (that's not to say I won't enjoy them)! If you were in this situation, what would you do? Any veteran advice would be much appreciated!



Note - I have read the benefits on the BA site and my mind is stuck halfway.