A brief guide to moving between Tiers in the BAEC
Feb 25, 2018, 1:50 pm
#76
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: SW London
Programs: BAEC Silver; Hilton Diamond;a miscellany of other hotel non-statuses
Posts: 3,607
I think so too, and I'm pleased to report that they work weekends 
^.
Day 0 - Thursday: 8pm flight
Day 1 - Friday: No change
Day 2 - Saturday: TP and "You've achieved Silver" showing in morning, but still Bronze artwork, etc
Day 3 - Sunday: Still same as Saturday in morning, but surprised to then see new status showing in phone app in the evening
^.Day 0 - Thursday: 8pm flight
Day 1 - Friday: No change
Day 2 - Saturday: TP and "You've achieved Silver" showing in morning, but still Bronze artwork, etc
Day 3 - Sunday: Still same as Saturday in morning, but surprised to then see new status showing in phone app in the evening
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Feb 25, 2018, 3:40 pm
#77
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Central Scotland, UK
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 286
Did you order the bag tags separately? I have a trip to HKG/ TYO in a few weeks so tempted to try to expedite things ahead of that.
Feb 26, 2018, 6:13 am
#78
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ashtead, Surrey
Programs: BAEC G, VS G, Marriot Plat
Posts: 55
Good luck getting yours and enjoy HKG/TYO.
Mar 21, 2018, 3:21 pm
#79
Join Date: Sep 2016
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 87
Does anyone know if the avios that you earn for flying is paid out at the level of the flight before you took off and or after you land?
ie if you took off as silver, but earnt enough tps upon landing to be gold. Would you get silver miles or gold miles?
ie if you took off as silver, but earnt enough tps upon landing to be gold. Would you get silver miles or gold miles?
Mar 21, 2018, 3:33 pm
#80
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 2,676
Silver. what matters is status on take off.
Mar 21, 2018, 3:36 pm
#81
Join Date: Nov 2017
Programs: BA, Hilton
Posts: 2,091
(My own transaction history confirms this, in that in terms of TPs earned, I "reached" Gold after landing at LHR, but my flight up to EDI posted at Silver rates, as I would expect)
Mar 21, 2018, 4:06 pm
#82
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: London
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In your example, you'd be allocated Avios for silver I'm afraid. It's the scheduled time/date of flight that counts, and at that point you would be silver
It's always quite entertaining to see whole threads started by people who it seems have only just got off the relevant flight and are immediately asking why they aren't already at the next tier. It can't often be that important, nice as it would be if everything did update that quickly.
Mar 21, 2018, 4:29 pm
#83
Join Date: Nov 2017
Programs: BA, Hilton
Posts: 2,091
But that may not have been entirely clear to the OP, so clarification appreciated ^
Apr 5, 2018, 4:21 am
#84
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 9
First post!
Just got my bronze status with BAEC.
Where on the BA website can I find the British Airways Executive Club Items Statement (the screenshot some people have posted)? I simply cannot find it.
Thanks a lot.
Just got my bronze status with BAEC.
Where on the BA website can I find the British Airways Executive Club Items Statement (the screenshot some people have posted)? I simply cannot find it.
Thanks a lot.
Last edited by Monument; Apr 5, 2018 at 6:37 am
Apr 5, 2018, 4:24 am
#85
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Welcome to FT, Monument!
I think that this is the page you're looking for: https://www.britishairways.com/trave...club/_gf/en_gb
You can reach it by logging in to your Executive Club account and going to the main page. In the left sidebar, there's a drop-down for "Manage my account", and the "Executive Club items" link is near the bottom of the drop-down list.
You can reach it by logging in to your Executive Club account and going to the main page. In the left sidebar, there's a drop-down for "Manage my account", and the "Executive Club items" link is near the bottom of the drop-down list.
Apr 10, 2018, 2:52 pm
#87
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Cheshire
Programs: BA, Accor, Hilton, ITA
Posts: 376
My understanding is that seat assignments stick, provided that you don't try and change your seats (as you've noted). I do recall the odd occasion where there was a report or two of people being kicked out of seats, but IIRC this was Gold dropping to Silver and being booted out of 1AK.
Anyhow the day before checkin they put a note on the booking and at the last moment was moved back! Bizarre rule I think when it splits up couples, one of which is still Gold.
My year ends on May 8th. I have short trip via Iberia Friday 4th LHR>MAD>ALC then Monday 7th ALC>MAD and 8th May MAD>LHR all within my current year before the reset on 9th. This trip will push me over the 2,500 barrier to earn my first Gold Upgrade voucher just by the skin of my teeth!
I am a bit anxious however as the outward LHR>MAD an Iberia 075 tickets but operated by BA (the outward generates an additional BA reference) didn’t post automatically when I did similar at Easter as I think it confuses their system as a BA flight can’t have an 075 number. Anyhow had to wait 7 days from flight date to even request the tier points. My return on Iberia probably won’t post till the 10th and the Air nostrum outward posted quick last time on the Monday.
Anyhow I know I’m within the rules of earning the 2,500 by flights taken by the 8th, but guess I will have to request a manual intervention to generate the e voucher as I don’t see the system picking this up other than being efficient at happily negating my late posting points the day after they post!
....or has BA IT improved recently?
Apr 14, 2018, 11:46 am
#88
Join Date: Dec 2015
Posts: 189
I'm currently Bronze, and my year ended on April 8, 2018. My Bronze card expires on May 31, 2018.
I have an upcoming RT flight in F on BA that departs in December 2018 and returns in January 2019.
I also have some upcoming transcontinental US flights on AA in F that I could credit to BA. I don't really care much about the status except for the extra points I receive on credited flights.
I'd like to know what you all think about:
1. What are the chances I could get BA to extend my card for a year so that I'll earn bonus points on the F flights in December and January?;
2. Is there any strategy, such as cancelling my BA account and opening a new one right before my flight, that may benefit me (I only have 890 points in my account now so losing them wouldn't be an issue, but the first of my AA F flights is in May 2018)?; and
3. Anything else you BAEC gurus here might have to add?
Thank you all in advance!
I have an upcoming RT flight in F on BA that departs in December 2018 and returns in January 2019.
I also have some upcoming transcontinental US flights on AA in F that I could credit to BA. I don't really care much about the status except for the extra points I receive on credited flights.
I'd like to know what you all think about:
1. What are the chances I could get BA to extend my card for a year so that I'll earn bonus points on the F flights in December and January?;
2. Is there any strategy, such as cancelling my BA account and opening a new one right before my flight, that may benefit me (I only have 890 points in my account now so losing them wouldn't be an issue, but the first of my AA F flights is in May 2018)?; and
3. Anything else you BAEC gurus here might have to add?
Thank you all in advance!
Apr 14, 2018, 12:55 pm
#89
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In any case, you probably already know that the difference is pretty trivial. I think that the Bronze tier bonus on an AA transcontinental flight should be something in the order of 600 Avios per flight.
Apr 16, 2018, 1:28 am
#90
Join Date: Jan 2017
Programs: BA Gold, HHonors Gold, Hyatt Globalist, IHG Diamond, Marriott Gold, Radisson Gold, Wyndham Gold
Posts: 102
Hi all,
Im still new to this so I wondered if any of you could unconfuse me please
Today is my Day 3 and the app has updated to Bronze colour and the card has updated, however I have two questions
1. The app now says Retain Bronze, shouldn't it be tracking my progress to silver? Do I just need to wait longer for it to update?
2. The status change has removed the blue card from passbook (iOS), I can't seem to find a way to add the new bronze card to passbook, has this feature been removed?
Thanks all,
Anthony
Im still new to this so I wondered if any of you could unconfuse me please
Today is my Day 3 and the app has updated to Bronze colour and the card has updated, however I have two questions
1. The app now says Retain Bronze, shouldn't it be tracking my progress to silver? Do I just need to wait longer for it to update?
2. The status change has removed the blue card from passbook (iOS), I can't seem to find a way to add the new bronze card to passbook, has this feature been removed?
Thanks all,
Anthony