Canceling BAEC to Change Tier Date
Mar 16, 2018, 7:01 am
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Canceling BAEC to Change Tier Date
So a few days back I managed to grab one of the awesome deals from MAN > AKL with Qatar in Business Class, it'll be my first business class flight with my gf and what better way to do it than the longest flight in the world!
Upon reading the comments of where I saw the deal, there was a lot of talk of this particular flight earning 560 TP which is just shy of silver status on BA. I would consider myself more of a "fly with whoever has the best deal" kind of person than someone who has loyalty to a particular airline but thought this might be an opportunity too good to pass up. The only problem is, my TP end date is December 8th and I fly from Oct 27th > Nov 21st. It's unlikely I'll be taking any more BA flights BEFORE this flight which means I will more than likely fall short of the 4 BA flights needed for Silver status.
I currently have 18k miles sitting in my BAEC along with 790 lifetime tier points. As I very much doubt I will be earning enough for lifetime Gold I was wondering whether it was a good idea to transfer the avios into my avios account, cancel my BAEC then set up a new one just before we fly which should hopefully give me another year to get the 4 flights needed to obtain Silver status.
Is this a good/bad idea? Is there a better way of going about this?
Thanks.
Upon reading the comments of where I saw the deal, there was a lot of talk of this particular flight earning 560 TP which is just shy of silver status on BA. I would consider myself more of a "fly with whoever has the best deal" kind of person than someone who has loyalty to a particular airline but thought this might be an opportunity too good to pass up. The only problem is, my TP end date is December 8th and I fly from Oct 27th > Nov 21st. It's unlikely I'll be taking any more BA flights BEFORE this flight which means I will more than likely fall short of the 4 BA flights needed for Silver status.
I currently have 18k miles sitting in my BAEC along with 790 lifetime tier points. As I very much doubt I will be earning enough for lifetime Gold I was wondering whether it was a good idea to transfer the avios into my avios account, cancel my BAEC then set up a new one just before we fly which should hopefully give me another year to get the 4 flights needed to obtain Silver status.
Is this a good/bad idea? Is there a better way of going about this?
Thanks.
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Mar 16, 2018, 7:05 am
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That's probably the only way to do it. Move the Avios to avios.com, close your BA account and then reopen it close to departure.
If you do that then you're likely to get almost two years of silver if you take some BA flights shortly after. When you get promoted in status you get your new status for the remainder of your membership year and the whole of the next one.
There's plenty of cheap BA flights MAN-LHR (if you're MAN based) to get your 4 BA flights and remaining 40 tier points. If you're based in London it's even easier.
If you do that then you're likely to get almost two years of silver if you take some BA flights shortly after. When you get promoted in status you get your new status for the remainder of your membership year and the whole of the next one.
There's plenty of cheap BA flights MAN-LHR (if you're MAN based) to get your 4 BA flights and remaining 40 tier points. If you're based in London it's even easier.
Mar 16, 2018, 7:12 am
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Perfect thank you. I'm actually based near Gatwick and was planning on getting the train to MAN but I might just get a return flight from LHR-MAN instead to get some flights in. I'm sure I'll be able to pick up another flight within few months to give me almost 2 years of silver status.
Thanks for the help!
Thanks for the help!
Mar 16, 2018, 7:41 am
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So a few days back I managed to grab one of the awesome deals from MAN > AKL with Qatar in Business Class, it'll be my first business class flight with my gf and what better way to do it than the longest flight in the world!
Upon reading the comments of where I saw the deal, there was a lot of talk of this particular flight earning 560 TP which is just shy of silver status on BA. I would consider myself more of a "fly with whoever has the best deal" kind of person than someone who has loyalty to a particular airline but thought this might be an opportunity too good to pass up. The only problem is, my TP end date is December 8th and I fly from Oct 27th > Nov 21st. It's unlikely I'll be taking any more BA flights BEFORE this flight which means I will more than likely fall short of the 4 BA flights needed for Silver status.
I currently have 18k miles sitting in my BAEC along with 790 lifetime tier points. As I very much doubt I will be earning enough for lifetime Gold I was wondering whether it was a good idea to transfer the avios into my avios account, cancel my BAEC then set up a new one just before we fly which should hopefully give me another year to get the 4 flights needed to obtain Silver status.
Is this a good/bad idea? Is there a better way of going about this?
Thanks.
Upon reading the comments of where I saw the deal, there was a lot of talk of this particular flight earning 560 TP which is just shy of silver status on BA. I would consider myself more of a "fly with whoever has the best deal" kind of person than someone who has loyalty to a particular airline but thought this might be an opportunity too good to pass up. The only problem is, my TP end date is December 8th and I fly from Oct 27th > Nov 21st. It's unlikely I'll be taking any more BA flights BEFORE this flight which means I will more than likely fall short of the 4 BA flights needed for Silver status.
I currently have 18k miles sitting in my BAEC along with 790 lifetime tier points. As I very much doubt I will be earning enough for lifetime Gold I was wondering whether it was a good idea to transfer the avios into my avios account, cancel my BAEC then set up a new one just before we fly which should hopefully give me another year to get the 4 flights needed to obtain Silver status.
Is this a good/bad idea? Is there a better way of going about this?
Thanks.
The long sections from Doha to Auckland will actually earn you 160 TPs a pop and not just 140.
Mar 16, 2018, 9:00 am
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Good point and even better as it means they can get the cheapest 5TP flights to make up the 4 BA segments rather than having to get the 10TP flights
