Originally Posted by
CT-UK
From what I have read those that get comped another year have been those no where near the qualification vs those very close. Almost like BA saying well this guy has dropped us totally so lets try and win him back as opposed to this guy was very close so we know he still flys us.
No idea if this is policy or makes and sense to those reading it but they are my drunken thoughts.
Well this didn't work for me, I crashed to silver with something like 240 TP for the year because I did drop BA completely. I had no issue with the drop to silver until I started to find out that lots of other Golds had been renewed at a similar or even lower level of TP.
My solution is to shift to stop playing the game and shift to EuroGold. I acquired enough TP in 3 months to qualify for EuroGold and now just need to shift my "address" to Madrid. I can also fly with BA a lot less than I would if based in the UK (which suits me well) and I have come to the conclusion that the UK Amex and Tesco promos are no great loss for me (I forgot to spend my last 2 for 1).
The end result of my fall back to silver will have been 3 and a bit months slight downgrade in lounge availability in London and a significant reduction in my likely future travel with BA. I would never have seriously considered this had BA not downgraded me to silver and I am now rather thankful for this.