Originally Posted by
zen100
A very wealthy person can effectively buy Gold Guest List from scratch by flying to the Maldives and staying at one of the ultra luxury resorts that charge over £20k per night.
Zero to GGL in less than a week with only 1 return flight on BA metal. And the irony is that BA won't see much of the £65k spend, as most of that will go to the hotel.
Acquaintance of mine will probably do exactly that. Every year goes to MLE for 2-3 weeks at one of the crazy expensive places. He'll probably be able to get GGL for his entire family with two BAH bookings. Then for all his other flights (he almost certainly does 100+ flights a year) he'll use other/better options unless BA truly happens to be best on a particular route. My guess is he would have gone out of his way to take more BA flights under the old system.