Originally Posted by ijgordon
So I have just over 10,000 BA miles that will be expiring soon, as it's been nearly 3 years since my BA F / Concorde trip to London when they had the going out of business sale
AA is my primary program, and as such the only time I would ever really need to accrue BA miles is on LHR-US routes operated by BA, which I don't typically do since AA is my primary program...
So I see I can spend $52.50 to buy the 1000 miles and keep the account goin, but my real question is -- is there really any reason to bother??? I know it's "difficult" to even establish a BAEC account -- will I lose that if the miles expire, or does the balance just reset to zero?
Thanks for any feedback.
If you don't have it already then get a BA Visa, comes with 15,000 miles on first purchase and arrives in two weeks. The annual fee is $85 but the 15k miles are worth way more than that. This would take you to the 25k milestone.
Since you are an AA flyer and probably want miles from that you could use this 25k miles to upgrade a BA trip on a non-US trip (eg. LHR-CPT-LHR, alternatives include MRU, DXB etc) from WT+ to CW. You could then swap the FF number to your AA one. This way you'd earn the miles from this ticket into your AA account, something that obviously wouldn't happen if you were to use it on a BA flight to/from the US.
BTW, If you flew Concorde one way and First the other I'd have thought you'd have a whole lot more than 10k. IIRC pre-July 2003 changes Concorde earned a shade over 10k miles one-way, the First return would have netted a further 7k.