Changes to the Executive Club are now live
May 1, 2015, 2:03 pm
#46
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: City of Kingston Upon Hull
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 4,940
Well the sacred cows have come home to roost. BAEC trounced in the Freddie Awards by of all things AF/KLM Flying Blue. You have heard it right, your favourite FF programme is perceived to be worse than Flying Blue.
May 1, 2015, 4:06 pm
#49
FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Somewhere between 0 and 13,000 metres high
Programs: AF/KL Life Plat, BA GGL+GfL, ALL Plat, Hilton Diam, Marriott Gold, blablablah, etc
Posts: 30,514
It doesn't make any sense to me - no flight is earning more TPs than before. It is either fewer or the same depending on cases. Some flights earn more Avios but that is an entirely different matter.
May 1, 2015, 4:15 pm
#50
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: UK
Programs: I go wherever the content takes me.
Posts: 5,698
I'm sure it will end up crediting correctly as 140.
Quite a few gremlins in the system I think!
May 1, 2015, 4:48 pm
#51
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: London
Posts: 17,007
Cows don't roost, sacred or otherwise. 
This happened last year
No one believes the Freddy Awards
In the UK "Freddies" are a type of children's chocolate one purchases on the way home from school.
No one believes the Freddy Awards
In the UK "Freddies" are a type of children's chocolate one purchases on the way home from school.
May 1, 2015, 6:52 pm
#52
Join Date: Dec 2009
Programs: BA GGL, Hilton Diamond, Hertz PC
Posts: 1,314
If the changes actually improved availability, then IMHO I was ok with it. But, from what I can determine, reward availability continues to be beyond pitiful which makes the changes just a complete devaluation of the scheme.
I'm not surprised but its a shame when your cynical views continue to be proven.
I'm not surprised but its a shame when your cynical views continue to be proven.
May 2, 2015, 11:52 am
#54
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: City of Kingston Upon Hull
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 4,940
Cows don't roost, sacred or otherwise.
This was a favourite of my English teacher at school to demonstrate mixed metaphors.
This happened last year
No one believes the Freddy Awards
In the UK "Freddies" are a type of children's chocolate one purchases on the way home from school.
This was a favourite of my English teacher at school to demonstrate mixed metaphors.
This happened last year
No one believes the Freddy Awards
In the UK "Freddies" are a type of children's chocolate one purchases on the way home from school.
May 2, 2015, 11:57 am
#55
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: BOS
Programs: BA Silver, Mucci
Posts: 5,289
May 2, 2015, 1:01 pm
#56
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: City of Kingston Upon Hull
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 4,940
May 2, 2015, 1:19 pm
#57
FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Somewhere between 0 and 13,000 metres high
Programs: AF/KL Life Plat, BA GGL+GfL, ALL Plat, Hilton Diam, Marriott Gold, blablablah, etc
Posts: 30,514
May 2, 2015, 5:38 pm
#58
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Hong Kong
Programs: BA Gold, DL PM, , Hilton Diamond (from being in a bed), SPG Plat, MR Plat
Posts: 922
Ok, so my usual route is LHR-ATL and occasionally I will UUA to first for 25,000 avios. Am i right in saying that in an off peak period this will actually reduce to 22,500? The main UUA selling point of WTP> CW is getting hit hard.
May 3, 2015, 1:58 am
#59
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: London
Programs: Mucci. Nothing else matters.
Posts: 38,644
Peak UuA will be the difference between 75,000 (CW) and 100,000 (F).
Off-peak UuA will be the difference between 62,500 and 85,000.
May 17, 2015, 1:57 pm
#60
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 106
Just wondering what the latest is with regards to the miles being credited for partner flights booked before 28th April? Has anyone had any luck getting BA to correct the amount of Avios credited to their account?
I know of one person who has been credited with just 25% of the miles they should have (since they booked before 28th Apr), and this same issue is likely to affect both my wife and I in a couple of weeks times. I will lose a lot of faith in BA if they try to go down this route and think they can suddenly move the goal posts after 28th Apr, partly because the FAQs imply that ALL bookings (regardless of flight number or operating carrier) made before 28th Apr will come under the old rules, but also because they categorically told many people this was the case.
If it is true that partner flights FLOWN after 28th Apr, regardless of booking date, earn under the new rules, then that's all well and good, but as far as I see it BA need to simply honour the old rules for anyone who calls / emails to ask about their missing miles.
I know of one person who has been credited with just 25% of the miles they should have (since they booked before 28th Apr), and this same issue is likely to affect both my wife and I in a couple of weeks times. I will lose a lot of faith in BA if they try to go down this route and think they can suddenly move the goal posts after 28th Apr, partly because the FAQs imply that ALL bookings (regardless of flight number or operating carrier) made before 28th Apr will come under the old rules, but also because they categorically told many people this was the case.
If it is true that partner flights FLOWN after 28th Apr, regardless of booking date, earn under the new rules, then that's all well and good, but as far as I see it BA need to simply honour the old rules for anyone who calls / emails to ask about their missing miles.