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Old Aug 16, 2017, 1:59 am
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Singapore
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Originally Posted by seaskybound
Making GGL/CCR while flying W/Y how does that work?
Sorry, i should have been clearer. 80% of my travel is on QR J, but on the infrequent occasions when the people footing my travel bills don't allow me to control my own flight bookings, I typically end up in Y (or occasionally W) and then prefer taking the direct route from London to Asia. When I'm able to book my own itineraries, I can usually find a J class ex-EU return for the Y class budget that has been allocated - thanks, it must be said, to all I've learned on Flyertalk! And, as we all know, TP earning on QR is a quick route to BA status if you can cope with the transit
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Old Aug 16, 2017, 2:07 am
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As a GGL/CCR, I wasn't aware I was entitled to a meeting with C-W-S. Are his appointments scheduled through the YouFirst line?

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Old Aug 16, 2017, 2:20 am
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Originally Posted by oxtailsoup
I was also in the CCR yesterday!

I'm in my third year of CCR and haven't received many upgrades. I managed two in one month but can't think of many more in the last 5 years or so.

More importantly I'd like to know how people are selected for the GGL/CCR BA events that I have never received an invite for despite seeing the same names get an invite to many of them... but I'm not bitter
As was I! Second year of GGL+CCR for me.
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Old Aug 16, 2017, 2:43 am
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Originally Posted by SkyTeem
As a GGL/CCR, I wasn't aware I was entitled to a meeting with C-W-S. Are his appointments scheduled through the YouFirst line?

Nah, via FT - far more efficient
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Old Aug 16, 2017, 3:13 am
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Originally Posted by TabTraveller
I think this is SO route and date dependent - I fairly frequently end up with a J to F opup to/from asia and have had a few W to J on TATL trips but never J to F TATL.
90% of my J to F upgrades have been on TATL. The rest to DXB. None on my flights to Asia.
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Old Aug 16, 2017, 3:20 am
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Originally Posted by bullroot
90% of my J to F upgrades have been on TATL. The rest to DXB. None on my flights to Asia.
I think it very much depends on the TATL route.

I'd imagine your chances of an Opup are going to be better as a single traveller on routes like LAS, TPA, etc. than you are on JFK or LAX.
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Old Aug 16, 2017, 3:44 am
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Originally Posted by Wozza2404
I think it very much depends on the TATL route.

I'd imagine your chances of an Opup are going to be better as a single traveller on routes like LAS, TPA, etc. than you are on JFK or LAX.
I've been upgraded on various routes, SEA mostly but also SFO, LAS, YVR, SAN. I don't travel to the east coast. I do generally travel as a single traveller.
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Old Aug 16, 2017, 4:54 am
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Join Date: May 2005
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C-W-S verified my identity in the CCR, last year!
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Old Aug 16, 2017, 5:02 am
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Delighted to have met CWS on a flight before I was admitted to the ranks of CCR/GGL - as this was 3 months before I did qualify I am only just realising it may have been part of the process and not so random after all 😉
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Old Aug 16, 2017, 5:02 am
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Originally Posted by brightstar100
C-W-S verified my identity in the CCR, last year!
Should there be a new thread?

CWSKWIA?
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Old Aug 16, 2017, 7:09 am
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So of the 5,000 CCR members on FT, BA only recognises 470 of them?

Another BA IT problem?
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Old Aug 16, 2017, 7:13 am
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Originally Posted by krispy84
Should there be a new thread?

CWSKWIA?
Or in my case, CWSDKWIA, as I have not yet had the pleasure of meeting him as far as I know. I will look out for the black mug as a clue and introduce myself - possibly to some random stranger who has nicked the famous mug.
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Old Aug 16, 2017, 7:44 am
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Originally Posted by mikeyfly
Either the 470 CCR holders is nonsense or people aren't truthful on their profiles!! There's no way 40/50 CCR holders have the time to frequent this board so much
You assume that everyone gets that status through long slogs. I get, for example, 840 TP on an RT F trip to Dubai. That's 5 (with other travel) or 6 trips to CCR. Not to mention, I can do a (long) same-day trip to the US from YYZ and make 160TPs (ie YYZ-ORD-MEM-CLT-YYZ). In the old AA F days, that would have been 220TPs!
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Old Aug 16, 2017, 7:47 am
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Originally Posted by oxtailsoup
I was also in the CCR yesterday!

I'm in my third year of CCR and haven't received many upgrades. I managed two in one month but can't think of many more in the last 5 years or so.
I was there also, so there's 5/14. As far as upgrades, I've never received any operation upgrade or downgrade from BA since joining 4 or 5 years ago (silver->gold->GGL/CCR->GGL/CCR in years 1-4).
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Old Aug 16, 2017, 8:17 am
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Originally Posted by kellytoronto
... I can do a (long) same-day trip to the US from YYZ and make 160TPs (ie YYZ-ORD-MEM-CLT-YYZ). In the old AA F days, that would have been 220TPs!
Wouldn't that have been 200 (40 for the international legs classed as business and 60 for the domestic US first legs)?
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