Originally Posted by
zaphod424
For a family of 4 you'd have to spend £30k a year on holidays to hit that due to the way it's divided up. £20k if you're getting the CC cap (but that would mean only one member of the family gets silver, unless both parents have the card and each spend the expected £25k to hit the cap. If not, the others would be bronze so not everyone can even use the lounges), but even that is a lot of money, and is absolutely not trivial in any sense of the word.
And even that requires all holiday spending to be done through BAH, screw you if you want to collect hotel status, go to a destination not offered by BAH, or stay in a hotel which isn't in their selection.
Totally agree - this is similar to our family’s situation - we have a £15k BAH booked for Easter and would probably spend that again each year (plus some smaller trips/domestics) totalling maybe £40k credited to BAEC. Add in a long weekend trip for parents without kids and we would be hitting 2 x Gold and 2 x Silver as a family.
Now we could not be certain any of us would hit Silver and given flying long haul is already in J there is no way I would actively direct the spend BA’s way.
Appreciate we are small fry but I don’t agree with others that £7.5k is a tiny amount to spend per person - especially in a family. I count myself as very fortunate and relatively affluent but still know the value of our discretionary spend and the opportunity cost…!