Lifetime Gold or Gold Guest List
 

I am 140 tier points to attaining Lifetime Gold and with a run rate of around 1,000 tier points per month, I have a decision to make, whether to go for Lifetime Gold Guest List or to draw the line in stand with Lifetime Gold and go easy with BAEC FFP?

If I have to go with Lifetime Gold Guest List, then it would take me another 65 months (5 years and 5 months) - that's a lot of flying and I am getting sick of it.

Advise please!

Wow - what's a typical month's flying for you?

If you're going out of way and flying purely for Tier Points then it's not really worth chasing after 65,000 of them. I'd probably say you'd get more out of getting lifetime status with another airline, because once your business trips stop further down the line, how much benefit will you get from GGL above Gold? As opposed to having G4L and another lifetime status with an airline in another alliance.

1,000 a month :eek:

If you're flying that month, why not aim for HON with the LH Group? The FCT at FRA and the lounges at ZRH and MUC are in a different league to anything BA has to offer.

1000 a month is not that much..

A corporate I did some work for a few years ago had a chairman who would fly home every weekend... to New York... in BA F :eek:

So he was earning 1680 a month just on that basis...!!!

I'm sorry, it is "that much" by any reasonable standard - I'd guess it'd be in the top 20% of GGL/CCR, which would make it 140/7,000,000 people or the top 0.002% of programme members.

That said, it isn't necessarily that punishing - it's equivalent to 3 J long hauls with a connection, six LHR-HELs or 2 QR returns.

I think it depends on travel patterns but with that much flying, LT gold status on Asiana for *A would only be a year away.

Unless you are a massive Tier Point runner, I don’t think you can just chase GGFL, different of course if you naturally accrue those TPS as part of your job/genuine leisure travel.

Im about to hit GFL (literally a few hundred away) but in my mid forties, with a young family, I’m genuinely happy that I travel less - I’ve just hired someone to look after the Asia offices that previously gave me 3 -4 K TPS a year, so I will be fine on the 3500 a year to give me all the benefits that I need (GGL plus GUF x4).

With First Wing, I don’t particularly need the CCR any more for my CE flights, as my North American flights are in F so I can use the CCR room in JFK, which is a nice to have.

I’d expect to be working at level of intensity for the next 5 years or so, and then turn down the throttle. Perhaps then I may become a TP runner. I guess it’s just up to your personal circumstances.

Spreading across alliances tends to be more beneficial than sticking to one alliance.

A global energy company I worked with 10 years ago had a VP do LHR-IAD each week in J on AA. 280 TP's a trip. Love to know what he did with Amenity kits!!

probably left them on the plane :P

12,000 TPs per year, and you manage also to maintain both Cathay Diamond and Singapore Airlines Solitaire status?! Wow, you must spend as much time in airline beds as you spend in your own. Unless your current flying patterns are subject to change, I'd certainly be pushing on for LTGGL if I was in your shoes. But only doing so by being especially strategic with your day-to-day itineraries rather than through TP running, and I'd also no longer credit any flights to CX's FF scheme when these can be credited to the BAEC. More importantly than anything, however, I'd also be making sure to take regular checkups with a health care professional!

This:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/cath...ogramme-6.html
See post #83 .

And this
On another note, OP stated need 8-10 years to achieve Hyatt lifetime diamond in Dec 2013. 6 months later, only 342 nights left to hit Hyatt lifetime diamond in Jun 2014, then he made his Hyatt lifetime diamond and hit 1 mil point it in Sept 2015, yet 9 months later, he already made 2.37 life time point on Hyatt, I guess mostly from to spa and F&B, as he said.

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Not sure why OP need advise..... But with this amazing rate and success story, OP can achieve anything he wants.

I'm curious to why you want to achieve LT GGL? You seem to fly a LOT (18K TP's in 9 month as stated in another thread) and the TP's should come in naturally, unless you're purely a mileage runner, which I would say LTG is good enough and you should go for another airline MM program.

It’s totally up to you! When I hit LTG first of all I didn’t actually notice, because I wasn’t really keeping score... but I fly for convenience not to chase miles.

I’d definitely suggest trying out other airlines or programs - AA EXP has been very kind to me, and a useful thing to have in your back pocket come trouble in the US if you want to be affiliated with OW.