golfmad

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golfmad

Would you explain again why you want to do this? What is the benefit if the recipient is already a gold card holder? If the recipient doesn't renew gold on their own the following period (e.g. insufficient BA flights) you could gift it once they drop down to silver.

Yes. If the original two jokers are not used by the end of the membership year they will be replaced by two new ones at the renewal date. In the case you describe above the first two would not really exist because the member will probably have reached their year end before the GGL status occurred.

Nuster

I had understood that the receiver would receive the card for the end of their current year plus the next year once past the 50 day tail period? If so it means they would not need to do the 4 flights on BA metal (and yes I know.....). Is my understanding wrong?

The logic to the second response is that GGL is not attained if flights do not post before the year end.Yet the flights are back dated to allow correct status to be earned but the benefits are not it appears?

golfmad

The jokers are replaced with new ones. There is no loss of the 'published' benefit.

Nuster

Except if the membership retroactivity happens at say T-2 and this was applied to jokers, they would be available for 2 days and then replenished/replaced at T for the new year.

Any opinion on the GC to a GCH question?

Thanks

CCayley

My experience of GGL benefits is that not everything is enshrined in some formal procedure or set of rules, and manual adjustments can be made in appropriate cases where the strict position isn't clear. Personally I would say that the fact that BA make the manual adjustments to allow someone to attain GGL status on the back of flights taken right at the end of their TP collection year but which will likely credit afterwards already means they are being quite helpful. If, however, that isn't good enough and someone wants the two jokers they have 'lost' (but as you say, would only have had two days to use even if all flights had credited at the speed of light) then they can ring the GGL line and ask nicely. Just please don't come here and whinge about it as if it were a human rights issue if the agent happens to say 'No'.

KARFA

It's noted in the GGL benefits T&C too, you get two per membership year and this starts from the date when one first becomes a GGL

And if you have't used them by the end of the same membership year in which they were issued they simply expire.

Nuster

Thanks. I know the written rules but was wondering if anyone had any experience in this.

And, ahem, the GCH question

KARFA

As it appears no one has responded with any personal experience either way why not ask the GGL team whether it's possible?

EDIT: see gms's answer below

gms

Yes, you can gift a Gold Card to an existing Gold Card holder.

Ensure you wait until they are in their new card year. i.e. if their tracking period runs to 8 Nov, their cards will expire on 31 Dec. So, in this case, wait until the start of Jan. They will then get their status extended for another year (i.e. another year beyond the current year of their card)

I did exactly this for my wife just a couple of months ago.

vindaloo

Deleted as questions had already been answered...

Nuster

Excellent.Thanks. That's what I thought logically should happen

Nuster

I thought you answered the year end question very well so thanks for the predeleted answer

gms

Even more amazingly, BA's IT can cope with this without any issues (in my experience at least!). I did it all online and it just worked.

Although says something about BA's IT track record when I'm surprised that something actually works seamlessly

Nuster

Thanks all for the help. I think we eventually got there. It was a bit nice that I got to stump some of the unstumpables.