In 2005 I had just about had enough of Air Canada's dirty,duct taped and ancient international J seats and a FFP that had gone from being about the best to being only useful if Super Elite. I had always envied people flying BA J as at that time it was the best out there transatlantic. I'd already been on FT for quite awhile and realized with some well planned flights I could hit Silver really fast while only actually buying CW once and transferring SPG points to pay for my WT+ to CW UuA flights which was cheap and easy to do back then. Here we are in 2018 and now I always prefer flying AC J transatlantic but BAEC is still the best for me and staying Gold is easy. I still can get AC/*J by transferring hotel and MR points to Aeroplan. Always been a leisure flyer and have just recently retired from business.