Originally Posted by
HFHFFlyer
I’ve now spent three days having discussions with people as well as looking at this forum and social media. I would put the reactions into four categories of people:
I think you have missed a very important category: Business travellers who have a Y only company policy, but are able to travel on BA. They know all about BAEC and direct some of their leisure spend towards BA in order to make enough status to gain lounge entry for their Y travel.
They are the type to do a lot of segments that net low TP for a lot of spend, but under the new system the won't make silver. Those are the people who will feel the impact most and are more likely to move spend away from BA, as there is no reason left to stay.
In the companies I've worked at, I've honestly met very few frequent business travellers who were clueless about airline FFP's. Generally speaking, I saw those who fly enough to make some sort of status with an airline know about it.