Bonus points query?
Mar 16, 2014, 5:32 am
#1
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: NCL
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Bonus points query?
I have a question, wondering if anyone can help...
My tier points collection year ends on 8th September and my card expires on 31st October.
Will I get my 100% silver bonus avios on flights flown between 8th September and 31st October?
Help much appreciated!
My tier points collection year ends on 8th September and my card expires on 31st October.
Will I get my 100% silver bonus avios on flights flown between 8th September and 31st October?
Help much appreciated!
Mar 16, 2014, 7:48 am
#4
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The Tier Points for any flights flown from 9 September to 31 October inclusive will count towards status in the 2014-15 membership year. On the assumption that the OP's confident assumption that he will not renew his Silver by 8 September is borne out, the TPs earned from 9 September to 31 October can't change that (subject to any extension of the membership year, which is a different question).
However, from 9 September to 31 October the OP remains a Silver member so that (as he says) he continues to get lounge access. The BA website will continue to show that he is a Silver member.
AIUI, that should also mean that any Avios earned from flights during that period would also earn the 100% Silver bonus. The bonus rate should drop to 25% only for flights from 1 November onwards.
Mar 16, 2014, 7:59 am
#5
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That's what I was hoping, I know I won't re-qualify for silver this year but then I am planning some travels during the period 9th September to 31st October, so it does make a difference to me to stay loyal to BA if I still achieve the 100% bonus avios...
Mar 16, 2014, 8:07 am
#6
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Then hopefully someone can confirm this for you. I thought I would have to find out myself last summer, but fortune intervened and saved me from dropping below Silver.
Mar 16, 2014, 9:01 am
#7
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: London
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 81
This has happened to me, where at the end of my card expiry month I was credited with the 100% bonus avios for outward flights, however on my inward flights at the beginning of the next month I only received 25% bonus for bronze. BA app showed me as Silver on the way out and Bronze at the beginning of the next month.
Tier points collected in the period counted towards new membership year.
Mar 16, 2014, 1:14 pm
#8
Join Date: Feb 2010
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Have you asked BA themselves? I would be surprised, as technically you are no longer silver, but BA allow you to benefit from certain elements if silver in case you've re qualified and card was delayed. If you get them I'd view them as a bonus, not a right (it's ba it, so maybe they just view as too complex to correct)
Mar 16, 2014, 5:39 pm
#9
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Your silver membership remains valid, complete with all the benefits, for the sevenish-week grace period.
Mar 16, 2014, 5:50 pm
#10
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In short, Yes.
BAEC continue to recognise you as Silver until a (random) few hours either side of midnight on 31 October. Your BAEC homepage will change colour, once you are officially demoted!
BAEC continue to recognise you as Silver until a (random) few hours either side of midnight on 31 October. Your BAEC homepage will change colour, once you are officially demoted!