That was me QF WP mate.

BMI in my experience are very generous at the moment HeyAussie, so well worth giving it a go. Though they may only be so generous if you are UK based like myself, and thus they know/can see that much of your flying is on BA (their main rival, who they wanna nick frequent flyers from).

As QF WP stated I have posted my current comp. story on the BMI Forum (or was it on this Forum actually ?), but here in short is the story -

Wasn't flying *A enough to re-earn BMI Gold this year so called them up to check if I dropped to Silver or back to their Base Tier. They ask if I am a elite with any other airline, I say 'Yes, I'm a QF Platinum', they say 'Cool, fax through statement and you will get Gold another year'.

But it gets better ! Someone I told this to, who had been comp'ed Gold in the aforementioned UK Status Match offer and was since not going to fly them enough to earn Silver in a normal year, then called up and for the same reasons was comp'ed Gold AGAIN !

So well worth a phone call, and would help if you can proove you actually will be flying BMI in the coming year (not another *A carrier, that won't be good enough). I of course would never suggest such a thing, but other naughty people might suggest you book a fully refundable J flight with them on flybmi.com, get comped status, and then cancel it. I, as I say, would of course never suggest such a thing myself !