Originally Posted by OGG flyer

Is is not much easier to reach Silver under the new incoming scheme?

To get silver currently, it takes a couple of long haul J's, say to Asia at 320TP per return.

So looking at my example (which I'd expect to be quite common), I do 3-4 flights LHR-Japan per year. Even if just two of them are in the cheapest J on BA that is already at least about £10 to 13k (just checked a few dates I will travel in 2025 to make sure I am not exaggerating the pricing).

So the new Silver/OWS requirements are about half of the current system. I do not travel much to Orange-land anymore, but even for Trumpland, two J tickets to LAX and back would be more than £7.5k on random dates I looked.

In the new system, all I need to spend is mere £7.5k plus taxes, minus credit card (up to 2,500 new TPs), so perhaps as low as £5k (plus taxes).

I do get it that some folks do "pointless" flights (well, TP runs) to places they don't want to go to reach Silver/Gold cheaply. But I only spend money to destinations I want to visit. Are people like me not better off?

I now fly AY to Japan because of ridiculous BA fares than can be up to twice AY J fare. But even at 25% AY milage, it does not look like we are worse off?

Are people overreacting, at least as Silver is concerned? All you need is roughly 2 long haul J returns and you have silver, how is this bad or different to what we have currently?

I get the point for Gold, that is a different ball game under the new rules, but Silver does not look unattainable at all IMHO.