The Top 10 BAEC members have dinner together. True or False?
Mar 16, 2018, 6:35 pm
#31
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Knowing everyone’s phone number in those days was no mean feat. I’ve got about 290 numbers in my phone. I know precisely 2 of them. How things have changed.
Mar 16, 2018, 6:47 pm
#32
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Mar 16, 2018, 11:00 pm
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Mar 17, 2018, 2:49 am
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Mar 17, 2018, 3:02 am
#35
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Getting the top 10 TP earners to be in the same location at the same time would be laughably difficult! They'd have to offer Ł100k incentive per person to their employer to miss their appointment or something 
That in itself suggests a porky or a misunderstanding - most likely a misunderstanding or a Chinese whisper that turned "some of the top 3,000", like the GGL lunch/dinner etc.
That in itself suggests a porky or a misunderstanding - most likely a misunderstanding or a Chinese whisper that turned "some of the top 3,000", like the GGL lunch/dinner etc.
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Mar 17, 2018, 3:14 am
#36
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Usually for companies with identified key account management, there'll be a list of events that people are offered. I had some of this in my pro-gambler days, sometimes my account manager would offer something, sometimes I'd ask if they had anything coming up because I fancied a day out, sometimes there'd be a mass shindig like Cheltenham with a general invitation. I expect BA work in a similar way. I doubt it's a fixed invitation list.
It'd be fun to turn up with Bronze baggage tags and attempt to talk your way in on the basis there are probably a few no-shows I guess.
It'd be fun to turn up with Bronze baggage tags and attempt to talk your way in on the basis there are probably a few no-shows I guess.
Mar 17, 2018, 3:32 am
#37
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Reckoning the top 10 have to be high-end business, social, and/or government figures who: A) have more than enough of these events to attend for other causes, including ones that they have personal interests in; B) they are likely not airline nerds like us and do not care enough to go to some fancy dinner to celebrate flying often/prestigiously; C) just too busy in general.
Mar 17, 2018, 4:16 am
#38
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Does BA tell it's top 10 travelers of their position? I had met someone at a cocktail party who told me that he had been informed he was Lufthansa's second most frequent flyer the year prior, he took a weekly trip between SFO and and FRA. I told him I knew the person who was told he was the third most frequent flyer on the airline, who took a weekly flight between HKG and FRA. Turned out they knew each other (different industries).
Mar 17, 2018, 7:46 am
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Mar 17, 2018, 7:52 am
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Reckoning the top 10 have to be high-end business, social, and/or government figures who: A) have more than enough of these events to attend for other causes, including ones that they have personal interests in; B) they are likely not airline nerds like us and do not care enough to go to some fancy dinner to celebrate flying often/prestigiously; C) just too busy in general.
I’m also put in mind of the wonderful Groucho’s memorable comment.
Opinion varies as to its precise origin, though the general consensus is that the words were indeed his own
”I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Me as a Member“
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/0...oucho-resigns/
Mar 17, 2018, 8:11 am
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I got an invitation to a BA event held by the British Ambassador in Buenos Aires many years ago. They must have been desperately short of guests!!
Mar 17, 2018, 2:06 pm
#43
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I used to be a bearded man top flier, almost weekly lhr to sfo commute on vs20 for 2 years plus occasional nrt or jfk trips. Richard invited people to his house or to various events. Was in the days of vs/continental tie up. Generated super high status on continental which was useful but not much benefit on vs other than nice dinners..
Mar 19, 2018, 5:10 pm
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Luckily at the time I was driving the kind of car where I could get away with such things. It was a pretty amazing cocktail party with the crew and AF/KL bigwigs, giant ice sculptures of the A380 etc.
Mar 19, 2018, 5:14 pm
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At a guess, I would say it may not be! 
As others have mentioned, BA and other airlines do organise multiple events for very frequent and ultra frequent flyers with various degrees of frequency and privacy. At that level of custom, however, TP "league" is most unlikely to be the airline's main concern.
As others have mentioned, BA and other airlines do organise multiple events for very frequent and ultra frequent flyers with various degrees of frequency and privacy. At that level of custom, however, TP "league" is most unlikely to be the airline's main concern.