Originally Posted by
HFHFFlyer
Many thanks. FWIW, and this is pure speculation on my part, I agree with the suggestion made by someone else (exggler?) that the promotion will be modified to gently introduce the concept of revenue based TPs. This will just be for hotels and cars, initially.
Incrementalism on this hugely controversial subject is by far the best way and it will prepare the ground for wider revenue based recognitation if/when business travel returns to pre COVID levels.
Also, it doesn't make any sense that someone spending 10 grand on hotels with BA gets the same TPs as someone spending 500 quid.
I agree and I think BA are just weighing-up their options here, if not already decided and waiting to announce:
1. The Amex promotion will have given them lots of useful data about credit card spend and effects of TP earning potential on that.
2. The planned/subsequently quickly retracted plans for TPs available to those who spend money on carbon offset suggests that earning TPs with ancillary products/BA spend is very much in the works.
3. Aside from what any of us have heard from staff the fact that the BAH double TP promotion was extended so many times as close to proves that BA considered it a success.
4. There will be lots of information (some shared and some not shared) from the experience of AA in its changed approach to earning status.
5. Aligning all of the TP earning years almost exactly with the fiscal year really suggests that there are other changes planned, I don’t buy the reasons given at the time and I don’t see why it suddenly became an issue to be solved after so long under the traditional system.
Just a guess on my part but I would say they are waiting for a “big bang” date for TP earning changes and when they are announced (e.g. April 25 for April 26 start) they will dovetail the bonus TP promotion to last until that moment.
Anyway, the only constant is change and whatever happens there will be losers and winners and we can only hope be in the later category! It would be amusing to me if the BAH double TPs promotion ended up being the entry drug for BA to go to full revenue-based TP earning!
