Originally Posted by
Often1
Ultimately, it is BA which decides who gets what status. TP's and the like are simply an internal BA metric which BA can adapt any way it wishes. They have no value outside of BA.
Avios are a OW-wide "currency" and it does matter how carriers exchange them. If the avios are less important, make it clear that what you want is the status and could care less how BA makes that happen.
Exactly. I did hypothesize this earlier, and feel relieved someone else thinks alike.
