Originally Posted by
mekhare
Good point and t
hanks for the quick reply. Based on my usual travel patterns and the taxes (£60 or £84 to my most usual destinations), I’d estimate my annual pre-tax spend on BA flights at around £2,500 each year.
As you can see that's really far from the £7,500 needed to reach BA Silver nowadays
On top of that, I normally take one or two long-haul trips a year, usually costing somewhere between £900–£1,300 each (pre-tax). Since the airlines vary, it’s a bit harder to pin down the tax portion on those.
With AA's AAdvantage program, annual pre-tax spend of $8,000 would be needed to get AAdvantage Gold (oneworld Ruby) status: each dollar earns five Loyalty Points, and 40,000 LPs are needed for AAdvantage Gold. Once you have Gold status, you earn
seven LPs per pre-tax dollar spend. So an additional $5,000 in spend would get you the additional 35,000 LPs needed for AAdvantage Platinum (oneworld Sapphire). Thus you'd probably need about £10,000 in annual airfare spend to reach AAdvantage Platinum --
unless you also had significant LP earnings from hotel stays and/or car rentals.