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Old Aug 21, 2007 | 2:41 pm
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Originally Posted by mwalsh
However, whenever any member of your Household Account redeems BA Miles for a flight on British Airways or any of our partner airlines, that redemption automatically triggers activity for everyone in your household. This will prevent all Household Account members' BA Miles from expiring for another 36 months.

In addition, if you or any member of your Household Account is a Silver or Gold member, the BA Miles for each member will not expire. However, should the Silver or Gold membership lapse, the BA Miles of any member who has not had activity in the last 36 months will expire immediately.
I'm a bit puzzled by the last sentence in relation to the first paragraph. Consider a HHA with one Silver member, and another member that hasn't had any activity for over 36 months. The last sentence suggests that as soon as the first member goes back to Blue, the other member's miles will expire at that point in time. However the first paragraph states that if any member of the HHA has activity, all HH members miles will only expire 36 months after that date.

Now, as the first member was Silver, there must have been activity on that account for less than 36 months before (in order to get the TPs for Silver). The only (extremely unlikely) scenario is that the first member retained Gold 24 months ago by lots of TPs gathered 36 months ago, and then had no activity whatsoever for 36 months. That does not make much sense to me
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