Originally Posted by
londinense
Apologies. I mistyped. I willNOT achieve Gold again this year. My year begins in early March.
I did wonder whether you meant to write "unlikely to hit ..."
In any case if the extra year extension was given by BAEC due to the IT meltdown, or as some other form of service recovery, then your Gold status should be fine until April 2020, even if you don't take a single flight on BA this year.