Originally Posted by Steve_ZA

The article fails to mention that TP runners make up a tiny percentage of status holders and the vast majority in the higher tiers travel for work reasons. I certainly don't see them driving up demand for premium travel, in fact the opposite is probably true, although Avis at SOF might disagree.

Someone is spending ~£2K to get Gold on a roundtrip to HNL and then using lounges while flying in economy for the rest of the year surely isn't motivating BA to add more flights.