Originally Posted by
ffgap
I am a lowly Silver with a TP collection year ending Sep 8. My intention was to renew Silver between Sep 9 and Oct 31. TP earning until Sep 8 is negligible, as OW flying consists mostly of awards and a few 5 TP eco segments.
My understanding of how the change is affecting me:
- Negative: This time, I'm losing the option of renewing for a full two years, best I can do is extend by 18 months (not considering the theoretical possibility of making Gold and engineering a soft landing)
- Positive: 2024, I won't have a mere 7 weeks to carry out my initial plan of collecting 600 TP. Instead, I'll have full 7 months (starting 1 April 2024)
- (Somewhat speculative negative): From 2025 onwards, doing 2-year- extensions will become more costly, as everyone doing them will compete for flights in the last 3 weeks of April.
Could someone kindly confirm my logic is sound? Sorry, BA is not my primary program.
Within my understanding of your situation I think this is where you are:
You already achieved silver this year and therefore will have it until Oct 2025
You planned to earn TPs after your existing year end in order to renew silver late this year for a further 23 months
You have no major TP flights planned in your current TP year.
So for yourself with nothing of note booked at present, I think you simply ignore the whole transition overlap thing and consider that you next TP collection year starts 1st April and act accordingly. You are correct, you are on the negative side of this change as the overlap does not benefit you.
Personally I think the demand will be greater in March rather than April, there always seems to be more people wanting last minute TPs than wanting to leverage the full 23 month status.