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Old Dec 23, 2021, 12:13 pm
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Originally Posted by RB211
It has suddenly struck me where BA have gone wrong!

Instead of reduced TPs, BA should have been awarding increased TPs for flights - and then they could just keep moving the end date of when flights go back to earning standard TPs. That would have simplified the whole thing. Well, some of it, at least!

(Yes, I know, BA IT an all that!)

rb211.
What they should have done is to put everyone on the same TP year, for example a calendar year. They could have taken the pandemic with its reduced travel, plus their recent (supposed) IT overhaul as a way to easily pro-rate people so that everyone was on the "same page," and this would eliminate any confusion coming out of the current system of rotating "TP years." The entire Tier Point system is something that would have appealed to Rube Goldberg:

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