Your guide to the Executive Club, attaining status and earning Avios | 2018 edition
#316
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Leeds, UK
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, GfL, HH Diamond
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Quick question, my membership year ends on the 8th January and I am planning some travel around this date but ideally want the tier points to go into my next membership year. So tier points credit on the date you fly or the date they are posted to the account. I have noticed usually there is a 48 delay in tier points posting so if I flew on the 6th is it possible they won't post until my next membership year or will they post into this year regardless?
Finally do flights on the 8th post old year or new?
Many thanks
Finally do flights on the 8th post old year or new?
Many thanks
#317
Join Date: Nov 2008
Programs: SPG-Plat, Hilton-Diamond, Club Carlson-Silver, Cathay-Diamond, Virgin-Gold
Posts: 2,183
#318
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: London
Programs: BAEC | qantas | IHG | Hilton Honors | Priority Pass | Nandos
Posts: 868
Does anyone know why a membership year end date might change?
I (re)joined the BAEC in June this year in order to transfer my Avios balance across. My year showed then as ending on 8 July 2019.
Until the last few days. Maybe a coincidence, but I took my first flights with BA since June last weekend (to BEY - great trip!) and when I looked at my account today, my year now ends on 8 December 2019. I called the BAEC number to ask why, but was told that it had always been that date. I'm not bothered (it's actually better for me because the status I get this year will last 5 months longer!), just intrigued.
I (re)joined the BAEC in June this year in order to transfer my Avios balance across. My year showed then as ending on 8 July 2019.
Until the last few days. Maybe a coincidence, but I took my first flights with BA since June last weekend (to BEY - great trip!) and when I looked at my account today, my year now ends on 8 December 2019. I called the BAEC number to ask why, but was told that it had always been that date. I'm not bothered (it's actually better for me because the status I get this year will last 5 months longer!), just intrigued.
#319
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: London
Programs: Mucci. Nothing else matters.
Posts: 38,644
Does anyone know why a membership year end date might change?
I (re)joined the BAEC in June this year in order to transfer my Avios balance across. My year showed then as ending on 8 July 2019.
Until the last few days. Maybe a coincidence, but I took my first flights with BA since June last weekend (to BEY - great trip!) and when I looked at my account today, my year now ends on 8 December 2019.
I (re)joined the BAEC in June this year in order to transfer my Avios balance across. My year showed then as ending on 8 July 2019.
Until the last few days. Maybe a coincidence, but I took my first flights with BA since June last weekend (to BEY - great trip!) and when I looked at my account today, my year now ends on 8 December 2019.
#320
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Lincolnshire, UK
Programs: BA GGL - maybe only briefly!
Posts: 1,378
So are you saying, that whatever date you join, your TP year will eventually be set to coincide with your first flight?
In which case, if they join up on different dates, but take their first flight together, their TP years will become synchronised?
What if that first flight is over a year after joining?
What are the pros and cons of having the same TP year dates for a couple - ours are 6 months out of phase and it is annoying as most of our travel is together so we have to be careful about maximising status benefits for both of us.
#321
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Whether it reliably works in practice is something that I don't know. ISTR that there are occasional reports that it hasn't worked like this. But one problem is that this is something that only affects new Blue members, and then only once in their lifetimes, and we have relatively few of these who are actively FTers and able to report on what happens.
One downside to there only being one Gold in a couple is if you're flying WT+ or WT and you arrive at LHR: only the Gold gets Arrivals Lounge access, with no guesting privilege. But it's easy to get too upset about such a mismatch if the alternative would actually be that neither of you can get in to the Arrivals Lounge.
#322
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Lincolnshire, UK
Programs: BA GGL - maybe only briefly!
Posts: 1,378
Thanks, Globaliser. Same here, I cant remember what happened when I first joined, and I had been in for a while before we got together, so have no idea what happened to our TP year dates when my partner joined. I do know that she will have earned over 1500 TP within 12 months this year which are unfortunately split over 2 TP years. Now trying to provide best advice to my son and daughter-in-law as they start down the road of credit cards and travel perks.
#323
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: South East England
Programs: Status with BA Exec Club; KrisFlyer; Hilton Honors; IHG One; Marriott Bonvoy
Posts: 543
My 2p : as a couple most of the benefits of status flow if *one* of you has the right status.... so overlapping TP years can be useful. It might increase the chances that one of you passed a threshold in 52 + 2 weeks.
#324
Join Date: Feb 2015
Posts: 69
Is a P fare Premium Economy on AA now without exception earning the same as WTP on BA? Specifically the LHR-JFK route such as on flights AA100 and 101. The BA calculator suggests 90 TP and AA's website confirms these are true Premium Economy following conversion and not just Main Cabin Extra but I have been burned in previous years expecting 90 and receiving something paltry equivalent to regular Economy. Is P generally safe from AA's games where they award only 20 or 40 treating no different to Economy or does it depend on the route?
#325
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: LHR, LGW
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 3,427
Hello, thanks in advance for any response.
Now I should probably (or potentially know) the answer to this, but I'd love some clarification. If a booking is made with another BAEC account and the single fare is booked through that account, does the single passenger get the benefits of the account it is booked through? i.e a pax (family member) who has no status, is booked through a BAEC Gold or Silver account, do they get the benefits of that account? Or is that not possible? Would the account holder have to be travelling also on the same ticket?
Now I should probably (or potentially know) the answer to this, but I'd love some clarification. If a booking is made with another BAEC account and the single fare is booked through that account, does the single passenger get the benefits of the account it is booked through? i.e a pax (family member) who has no status, is booked through a BAEC Gold or Silver account, do they get the benefits of that account? Or is that not possible? Would the account holder have to be travelling also on the same ticket?
#326
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: MSN
Programs: AA, BAEC Gold
Posts: 3,928
Hello, thanks in advance for any response.
Now I should probably (or potentially know) the answer to this, but I'd love some clarification. If a booking is made with another BAEC account and the single fare is booked through that account, does the single passenger get the benefits of the account it is booked through? i.e a pax (family member) who has no status, is booked through a BAEC Gold or Silver account, do they get the benefits of that account? Or is that not possible? Would the account holder have to be travelling also on the same ticket?
Now I should probably (or potentially know) the answer to this, but I'd love some clarification. If a booking is made with another BAEC account and the single fare is booked through that account, does the single passenger get the benefits of the account it is booked through? i.e a pax (family member) who has no status, is booked through a BAEC Gold or Silver account, do they get the benefits of that account? Or is that not possible? Would the account holder have to be travelling also on the same ticket?
#327
Join Date: Sep 2018
Posts: 16
I’ve scanned through the thread, but couldn’t find the answer, so hopefully I haven’t missed it. What does BA count as a flight? I need 300 points and 2 eligible flights to proceed to the next tier. The flights will earn 360 points. I currently have UK-UK-US and return booked. Does BA see this as one flight (round trip) two (out & back) or four (sectors)?
Many thanks.
Many thanks.
#328
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: MSN
Programs: AA, BAEC Gold
Posts: 3,928
I’ve scanned through the thread, but couldn’t find the answer, so hopefully I haven’t missed it. What does BA count as a flight? I need 300 points and 2 eligible flights to proceed to the next tier. The flights will earn 360 points. I currently have UK-UK-US and return booked. Does BA see this as one flight (round trip) two (out & back) or four (sectors)?
Many thanks.
Many thanks.
#330
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club, Iberia Airlines, Airport Lounges and Environmentally Friendly Travel
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: London, UK
Posts: 22,212
This thread is being closed to ensure good housekeeping. However there is a new thread for 2019 and that can be found here:
Your guide to the Executive Club, attaining status and earning Avios | 2019 edition
Prospero
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Your guide to the Executive Club, attaining status and earning Avios | 2019 edition
Prospero
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