Originally Posted by lost_in_translation

Yes, but that’s why BAEC was genius, it was making otherwise sensible professional people make completely irrational decisions and for whatever reason that has been deliberately blown up 😂

Can’t help but wonder if IAG management and whatever consultants they used being largely non-British basically meant they didn’t get the weird British class system throwback dynamics embedded in BA status that was working in their favour. Equally why it sounds like some in BA management did get it. It’s like a private club, if you can just buy your way in, suddenly no one wants it any more. A revenue based programme in the UK won’t operate in the same way as the US unless BA is now mainly targeting non-Brits.