Originally Posted by IThink

I think someone earlier thought that US flights with first will remain profitable but the few south east Asia destinations with first will suffer. That reflects my situation. 90% of my travel is long haul Asia. I am fortunate to be GFL and GGL due to about 5000 points a year up to now. Entirely self funded. No gaming the system and a reasonable number each year of BA First flights to Sg or HKG and onwards from those hubs or QRs if the connections from SG or HKG is poor or inconvenient

For the future I won’t bother focussing on GGL as I know where I am not wanted. I won’t be putting up with the hit and miss of First and the consistently mediocre club as there is thus no need. Emirates has a better first (love a shower before landing) and a better network and I will splurge my 4 or 5 10k first returns on some ME3s and only bother with BA shorthaul at the cheapest possible club fares.