Originally Posted by
ThatT1Feeling
OP, would you mind clarifying, your profile says you're BA Gold but you needed to pay for seats?
Is one or more of the passengers on a different PNR from the others?
I was once gold but am now a very lowly blue. The shame. Not to go off on a tangent but we’ve had the BA Chase VISA for years and years and now do many of our flights using Avios. We live in Orlando and visit the UK/Europe once a year or so and have just been lucky with booking with points so we don’t accrue status much.