When to ask for 2 week extension
Jan 16, 2016, 4:02 am
#1
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When to ask for 2 week extension
We will need to ask for a two week extension to our membership year to achieve gold from silver. This will be in June. Do we do it now just in case they refuse and it gives us some notice to do another(unplanned trip) or leave it until the last minute and hope for the best? At present the flight that gets us to GCH is exactly 2 weeks after our year finishes.
Poor planning I know but our HNL trip was only in November and the next part of our ex MUC-HKG isn't till March.
Poor planning I know but our HNL trip was only in November and the next part of our ex MUC-HKG isn't till March.
Jan 16, 2016, 4:27 am
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In my experience, there's no point in calling now. They'll just tell you to call back during the two weeks when the TPs have credited.
FWIW, I've never heard reports of anyone being refused this, so I think it's a pretty sure thing.
FWIW, I've never heard reports of anyone being refused this, so I think it's a pretty sure thing.
Jan 16, 2016, 4:54 am
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We will need to ask for a two week extension to our membership year to achieve gold from silver. This will be in June. Do we do it now just in case they refuse and it gives us some notice to do another(unplanned trip) or leave it until the last minute and hope for the best? At present the flight that gets us to GCH is exactly 2 weeks after our year finishes.
Poor planning I know but our HNL trip was only in November and the next part of our ex MUC-HKG isn't till March.
Poor planning I know but our HNL trip was only in November and the next part of our ex MUC-HKG isn't till March.
This is always an 'after' rather than before request and BA will bat it right back at you.
Jan 16, 2016, 5:07 am
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you don't have to ask for an extension. It is given if you need it. Asking now for June is pointless anyway.
Just need to make sure that the flight is completed within the 2 week period, as there is no flexibility there.
Just need to make sure that the flight is completed within the 2 week period, as there is no flexibility there.
May 6, 2016, 5:03 am
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you don't have to ask for an extension. It is given if you need it. Asking now for June is pointless anyway.
Just need to make sure that the flight is completed within the 2 week period, as there is no flexibility there.
Just need to make sure that the flight is completed within the 2 week period, as there is no flexibility there.
Is no phone call to BAEC required at all?
Thanks
May 6, 2016, 5:59 am
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It's really cutting it quite fine. Fly your segment and then call BA and ask them to credit it to the old year. You may or may not get the answer you're hoping for. It's a courtesy, not a right.
May 8, 2016, 1:03 am
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So here's an interesting update. I called BAEC to extend the year for my wife as she wasn't around for the call yesterday morning.
The agent told me that there was no need to call for a 2 week extension as we were so close to Gold (20 TP).
Basically she told me that if on ones' Year end date, one is within 40TP to go from Sliver to Gold, 20TP to go from Bronze to Silver and 10 TP to go from Blue to Bronze then with a phone cal lon 8th June (our end of year date) BA will, and I use her words "upgrade" you to the next tier without the need to fly. I actually read it back to her my understanding and she confirmed it. I have never seen this mentioned on here before, but she said it wasn't a new policy.
The agent told me that there was no need to call for a 2 week extension as we were so close to Gold (20 TP).
Basically she told me that if on ones' Year end date, one is within 40TP to go from Sliver to Gold, 20TP to go from Bronze to Silver and 10 TP to go from Blue to Bronze then with a phone cal lon 8th June (our end of year date) BA will, and I use her words "upgrade" you to the next tier without the need to fly. I actually read it back to her my understanding and she confirmed it. I have never seen this mentioned on here before, but she said it wasn't a new policy.
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May 9, 2016, 8:11 am
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I suppose it's believable, but I wouldn't imagine that any frequenters of flyertalk would ever allow themselves to miss a tier upgrade by such a small margin, so we wouldn't know 
May 10, 2016, 12:13 pm
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Well there are often questions about extending the year by the 2 weeks. With this policy there often won't be the need. Not all of us can plan work trips to get to Gold and so we are sometimes driven by when days off occur.