Originally Posted by
bisonrav
Size of groups - I tend to place more weight on what the upper echelon GGLs and GGLfL say than staff comments, and I don't see any reason not to believe the suggestion that groups are much the same size as previously. We will see the hobby GGLs falling off, and the conversation here and probably in the CCR has a bias towards this group so you'll overhear all sorts of things. We'll also be telling cabin crew we're doing our final status flights, so they will hear that a lot.
Changes to earnings - BA don't want to hold the group the same size but to grow it. The changes are for next year.
Rollovers; There's always been a semi-formal rollover threshold for people who just fail to renew, this is nothing new at all. We won't see a generalised status freeze like during Covid.
Improvements: not with costs rising as they are and significant headwinds building. Commercially important customers tend to get looked after regardless of status.
The drop off in “hobby” GGLs may well be counterbalanced by the introduction of accidental GGLs: my very small sample size in the company I work in has two of my colleagues who take 8-10 return trips in J to the US every year qualifying for GGL for the first time this year. Previously they might have had between 2000 and 3000 oTP a year, now they are comfortably over 65,000 nTP without doing anything different.