Changes to Gold Guest List Qualification Criteria
Nov 26, 2014, 9:05 am
#151
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Geneva/Sydney
Programs: Mucci; BA, LT GGL; QF, platinum; Marriott LT Titanium; Hilton Diamond
Posts: 926
Funnily enough, the KWV (a South African winemaker) ad the bottom of this thread says "Nothing worth having was ever gained easily". Have you noticed from the ads that that the FT cookies know exactly where you are?!!!
Nov 26, 2014, 9:10 am
#152
Join Date: Dec 2012
Programs: GGLfL
Posts: 1,129
Because I travel a lot and have lots of bookings. 
About 20-25 bookings in my list of bookings at present. I called twice today - once re. a waitlist on a full flight, once to change seats on a CX flight.
I called in the past few days to: (i) change/upgrade a ticket for next week, (ii) change another ticket, (iii) refund a third ticket, (iv) make an open jaw GUFT/avios booking that can't be done online, (v) rebook a flight with a schedule change.
About 20-25 bookings in my list of bookings at present. I called twice today - once re. a waitlist on a full flight, once to change seats on a CX flight.
I called in the past few days to: (i) change/upgrade a ticket for next week, (ii) change another ticket, (iii) refund a third ticket, (iv) make an open jaw GUFT/avios booking that can't be done online, (v) rebook a flight with a schedule change.
Nov 26, 2014, 9:14 am
#154
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: City of Kingston Upon Hull
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 4,940
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There are two key levers that BA can manipulate to gain a desired outcome:
1. Qualifying requirements for each level
2. Benefits at each level
They've pulled lever 1 now, I wonder when they'll pull lever 2 and what the outcome will be?
There are two key levers that BA can manipulate to gain a desired outcome:
1. Qualifying requirements for each level
2. Benefits at each level
They've pulled lever 1 now, I wonder when they'll pull lever 2 and what the outcome will be?
Nov 26, 2014, 9:14 am
#155
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Mostly UK
Programs: Mucci Extraordinaire, Hilton Diamond, BA Gold (ex BD)
Posts: 11,209
Let's straighten something out- has anyone, ever, in the history of the BA board / TP run thread done a TP run with the sole purpose of getting GGL by way of 3000TPs 2 years in a row? The only TP runs I have heard about are for people who want to get silver, get gold or get a CCR card, surely? I would be happy to be proved wrong.
This almost happened to me. I was over 3000 TP in my 2012 membership year.
When it looked like I was not going to get close to 3000 in 2013 I was considering a TP run, but I didn't have the time.
Even without the CCR card I would have liked access to the jokers.
Nov 26, 2014, 9:15 am
#156
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: UK
Programs: BA GGL (but soon to lose the GL :-(), IHG Spire Amb, Hilton Dmnd (and pleb/pleb-plus in 1001 others)
Posts: 771
In my first year of BAEC membership I did about 3300Tps, and then in my second appeared to be on course for somewhere between 2000-2500 so I did my one and only ever TP run and had a long weekend in Honolulu - which I thought would mean I got GGL and the 2nd GUF2 (as it was then) too. As it transpired my work travel dropped off somewhat and I only just scraped the second year at about 3060TP.
Nov 26, 2014, 9:15 am
#157
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Wedged somewhere between BTS and VIE ✈
Programs: Star Alliance Gold (A3 Gold), Oneworld Emerald (BA Gold), Hilton Diamond
Posts: 6,338
Nov 26, 2014, 9:24 am
#158
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA; SQ; Hyatt; Hilton
Posts: 422
I've done one to get from 1,800 to 3,000 to renew GGL. You can imagine a circumstance where someone does an unusual (for them) eighteen months of fairly frequent LH premium flying and does a run to get GGL, albeit without much hope of retaining it after the first year?
Nov 26, 2014, 9:25 am
#159
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Nov 26, 2014, 9:49 am
#161
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: MAN/BHX
Programs: ABBA
Posts: 6,027
I can see a situation where someone doesn't do as much flying in one year, so it only coming in a 2500, and does a tp run to renew GGL. More so than doing a tp run at 1200tp to renew gold.
Nov 26, 2014, 9:51 am
#163
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: London
Programs: BA GfL & GGL, LH Sen, EK & VS Gold, Amex Cent
Posts: 1,719
Fair enough! I have usually had some form of travel agent, or bookings which can amend online. Complex Avios redemptions however.....
On TP Runs, if someone can be ar*ed to fly across the world and spend hours on a plane and figure out some cheapo fare to get the required TP, then hats off to them, let them do it! Clearly they like your airline enough to endure that.
On TP Runs, if someone can be ar*ed to fly across the world and spend hours on a plane and figure out some cheapo fare to get the required TP, then hats off to them, let them do it! Clearly they like your airline enough to endure that.
Nov 26, 2014, 10:27 am
#165
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: London, Sth Africa or LAS
Programs: VS Silver, BA Blue - finally; but hotels.com Gold :)
Posts: 1,858
Several points from me
1. Thank you Jeni for posting, and the detail being clear enough to understand. It seems this story even beat the FT rumourmill too
2. I'd like to think this change for GGL, by BAEC, is to stave off a sudden burst in numbers which has diluted (further) the value of other BAEC tiers. I can certainly imagine the oneworld US/AA and QR flyers are swelling the 3000tp ranks if they are crediting to BAEC.
3. I would suspect this also helps pave the way for increases to the Silver and Gold thresholds ... probably also needed.
4. You know, I was considering the 3k and 3k route into GGL. I have more flights these days, and qualified for Gold just 3 weeks into my year this time. But a single 5k year is not that tough for me, bring forward a holiday a few weeks and visit some US West Coast wineries (Staged via EU, LCY and somewhere on the East Coast). I suspect I'll go for it.
5. I see where other posters are coming from re. the Short notice period. But at least on this occasion there IS a notice period! The Euro-Gold notice remains the high watermark though.
For me, all-in-all a net plus providing GGL can actually deliver the "service" to high standard going forward.
1. Thank you Jeni for posting, and the detail being clear enough to understand. It seems this story even beat the FT rumourmill too
2. I'd like to think this change for GGL, by BAEC, is to stave off a sudden burst in numbers which has diluted (further) the value of other BAEC tiers. I can certainly imagine the oneworld US/AA and QR flyers are swelling the 3000tp ranks if they are crediting to BAEC.
3. I would suspect this also helps pave the way for increases to the Silver and Gold thresholds ... probably also needed.
4. You know, I was considering the 3k and 3k route into GGL. I have more flights these days, and qualified for Gold just 3 weeks into my year this time. But a single 5k year is not that tough for me, bring forward a holiday a few weeks and visit some US West Coast wineries (Staged via EU, LCY and somewhere on the East Coast
). I suspect I'll go for it.5. I see where other posters are coming from re. the Short notice period. But at least on this occasion there IS a notice period! The Euro-Gold notice remains the high watermark though.
For me, all-in-all a net plus providing GGL can actually deliver the "service" to high standard going forward.