I'm still waiting for this great GGL IRROP assistance. Never had anything above and beyond.
Time will tell what the economic impact is of these changes. But like in so many occasions the team/consultants may have sold themselves on the upside of the changes but not given ample consideration to the downside scenarios many of which are highlighted in this forum. Both on the business and leisure sides.
For the high-end traveller with optionality GGL can be retained in say 5-6 expensive TATL flights. Or maybe 4-5 with Euro travel topping up the rest. I would then put all my APAC/ME travel on better airlines, so BA would incrementally lose out on 2-5 expensive LH flights worth maybe a further £15-30k which would have been required to maintain GGL before. The system works if the pax travel is forced to fly BA which maybe skewed the analysis with those mega Prem-enhanced contracts BA has given some corporates.