Originally Posted by Arctic Troll

I'm blue, I've always been blue, I probably always will be blue. But this year as a couple we've tipped £7000 into BA Holidays and for that we've got 150TPs each- and that's with the double TP offer. Under the new scheme we'd be 85%-ish of the way to bronze and one more city break would do it.

My view is that the ones complaining are the ones who have the time and dedication to do LHR-SOF-LHR-JFK-LAX instead of just flying LHR-LAX. Even though LHR-LAX direct was more expensive, it nets a fraction of the TPs you'd get from the convoluted routeing.

The old scheme rewarded sectors flown and cabin choice, it didn't reward spend. From the airline's perspective you can see why they've reached the conclusion they have.

And the feedback will have been carefully curated from the sorts of people (high spend, time-sensitive) who would agree. Anecdote isn't the same as data and all that, but I know one GfL, and he gets his status by flying to the Middle East once a month on flexible business (company paying, obviously) and has been doing it for 20 years. He's very much in favour of the change!