Originally Posted by
Voice from the South West
What a mess! If I ever bother with a mileage run again I’ll either do a round the world ticket and earn tier points on partner rates and mileage flown, or just defect to AY or MH and use their far simpler schemes.
Of course if they lift the spending cap on AMEX I’ll be interested but somehow I can’t see them doing a rate of £1 for 1 tier point. Too easy and too simple!
I'm guessing if it was lifted then the return would be similar e.g. 1 TP per £10 spend. There are probably plenty of people who put or could put about £75k through a personal Amex per year so about 7,500 TPs and Silver without setting foot on a plane. I assume that it would still not count as BA spend so not
that helpful for GGL retention but an £80k Amex BAPP spend would see you meet the non-BA spend requirement for re-qualification and then if you only had 32k TPs to get you could probably do that on about £22k actual spend with the new bonus structure. Only £5.5m Amex spend for GfL or £15m for GGLfL...
Originally Posted by
AAL2887
Will end the year on approx 35k ntps mostly BA metal so won't renew GGL. If this structure was in place from the beginning i likely would have retained and certainly would going forward. What a mess. Already moved post April travel to LH. Won't be playing their game
It's situations like yours that make me pretty sure that they will comp you GGL next year. No point in losing a load of customers who would have re-qualified under the system you just changed it to. Of course if you already bought a load of flights for 26/27 the horse has already bolted.