Originally Posted by
irishguy28
I'm not sure why you'd equate BA Silver with SEN rather than with Frequent Traveller - these are the first levels that grant Lounge Access, for example - and surely BA Gold would map to SEN.
And yes, that means that BA Bronze has no equivalent M+M level, but BA "Rust" doesn't have a whole lot of perks anyway.
Originally Posted by
the810
BA Gold offers first class lounge access, which SEN does not. FTV lounge access is very limited (LHG + LO lounges only, no lounge at 99% of outstations) so can't really be equated with BA Silver in that regard, and it also doesn't offer other very substantial BA Silver benefits such as fast track.
Any BA Silver who plans to switch to FTV and expects a similar experience will be very disappointed.
SEN lounges are technically *A First lounges so...
but yes, BA Silver absolutely is not equivalent to *S which is what FTL is. It is a
relatively good *Silver, but *Silver nonetheless. BA Silver, being OW Sapphire, is equivalent to *Gold and has benefits analogous, like lounge access (which BA Bronze/owr does not have, neither does *S, though FTL does in limited form) or priority boarding (which BA Bronze/owr does not have, neither does *S including FTL).
LH managed to create an illusion, via particularly difficult qualification criteria, that SEN status is a cut above other *G and by extension STE+/OWS statuses, but at the end of the day, it
is a *G status.