Gold for Life - The longest qualifying time?
Feb 17, 2019, 10:33 am
#17
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: JER
Programs: BA Gold/OWE, several MUCCI, and assorted Pensions!
Posts: 32,146
You may eventually discover that, as the years add up, that you find the discomfort of Economy unacceptable! Elders should fly in Business, for comfort and convenience, and as my wife says, “What were all those years of work for, if not this?”
Feb 17, 2019, 11:04 am
#18
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Singapore
Programs: BAEC GFL (Only took 30 years)
Posts: 500
But as Mr, Micawber would say ......
Feb 17, 2019, 11:33 am
#19
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 5,596
Feb 19, 2019, 2:09 pm
#21
Join Date: May 2016
Location: EDI
Programs: Was BA GGL but no longer travelling
Posts: 583
I joined the BAEC in 1997. Currently on 11505 points, 7800 of which have been earned in the last two years. It shows how a change of job or change of role can change many things! On track for GGL/CCR this year for the first time; two years ago I'd never got above blue.
Feb 19, 2019, 5:33 pm
#22
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Las Vegas
Programs: BA Gold; Hilton Honors Diamond
Posts: 3,228
If I keep going at the same rate I have been then I am looking at another six years to get there, so that would make 20 in total. Retirement is a lot further beyond that, unfortunately.
Feb 19, 2019, 8:27 pm
#23
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Argentina
Posts: 40,211
Despite having flown BA quite a lot before and since its formtion I was unable to join the BAEC as only certain class of Y fares qualified for entry to the Club. So all my flights on BA earned me nothing until the early part of this century....around 2006 I think. It was around then they allowed anyone to join....even Tesco shoppers who had never flown BA. 
Mar 20, 2019, 8:20 am
#24
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: London, ARN, HEL, ..... or MAN
Programs: BA GGL / GFL, Mucci Diamond!, HH Diamond, Radisson Premium, IHG Gold, Hertz Gold
Posts: 5,901
So, thanks in no small part to lots of you on this forum, and after approx 19 years as a BAEC member, I have sneaked over the 35k lifetime tier points, ironically on the longest single flight I have ever taken - 22 hours on the same plane without disembarking
Nothing different on my home page other than the TPs total, and actually it doesn't feel as good as I'd hoped, because I will always want to keep GGL
They keep you hooked, don't they?!
Edit... small change now on the home page. Hardly a fanfare though!!
Nothing different on my home page other than the TPs total, and actually it doesn't feel as good as I'd hoped, because I will always want to keep GGL
They keep you hooked, don't they?!Edit... small change now on the home page. Hardly a fanfare though!!
Last edited by ThatT1Feeling; Mar 21, 2019 at 7:41 am
Mar 20, 2019, 10:11 am
#25
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC GGL/CCR; TK Elite; ITA Executive; Hilton Diamond; Marriott Bonvoy Platinum
Posts: 1,551
I will be reaching the 30K TPs mark by the end of 2020 I recon - my membership started in 2012 (although only accruing 1,500 TPs for the first couple of years)
I'm 37 years old :-)
I'm 37 years old :-)
Mar 20, 2019, 2:35 pm
#29
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: United Kingdom
Programs: BAEC Blue, Flying Blue Silver, Hilton Gold, Marriot Gold
Posts: 817
275 lifetime tier points for me Been with BAEC 2.5 ish years.
thankful for amex cards otherwise I wouldn’t get anywhere long-haul! I hope to do a TP run one day when I get round to it, just to experience status for a year.
Been with BAEC 2.5 ish years.thankful for amex cards otherwise I wouldn’t get anywhere long-haul! I hope to do a TP run one day when I get round to it, just to experience status for a year.