Originally Posted by
xenole
Well, it's about what you bring to the BA table that's important.
You can do 7 x SOF-SFO TP runs for say £10k and earn 5000+ tier points, but at the end of the day, that's little in the way of spend.
I personally let myself drop from GGL. Not spending ££££££ or in control of budgets etc., so as with the majority of GGLs (I'm guessing), we're unimportant. Never felt GGL offered anything beyond a phone number (used twice since Covid and they hung up on me half way through one call, the second was 50/50 in usefulness terms), and a handful of CCR / Chelsea visits - Gold / Emerald pretty much covered anywhere else. Other than a few times flying AA, there's not been anything recognition wise from BA (ok, a couple of welcomes onboard in the last 3 years or so, but I had a few more, still single figures though, when just gold, or pre-Covid).
Totally understand what the spend is on matters, but I certainly didn't earn the TP's via 8 x LHR-SOF trips
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I am not that bothered about the invites, but unlike your experience I enjoy GGL because I find the phone agents to be streets ahead of the normal call centre and with a lot of U.S. travel last year, I got to know the JFK, BOS and LAX Concorde teams well, so that goes a long way to justifying staying with BA in my view (and AA have come up trumps a few times for me as well).
The possible improvements
brightstar100 mentions sound interesting.
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