Crampedin13A

No surprise then that people complain about Galleries South being too crowded all the time with that percentage of the total numbers being Silver/Sapphires plus adding non status pax travelling in CE or CW

Seat 1K

frandrake

They'll soon introduce quotas I am sure, so they can publish a nicer diversity report at the end of the FY.

watersign

I read it as not 61% of all BA pax, but 61% of those using the First Wing.
That's mostly going to be people travelling in C or F (only Golds can get in without being on a C or F ticket), and I'd be very surprised if most of those travelling in those classes weren't elites. (The few remaining are probably elites with other OW carriers).

watersign

[double post]

ThatT1Feeling

Seems quite odd. The only ways a Silver could use the F wing would be if they're guested by a Gold or travelling in F, so I can't see how the First Wing would have such a high proportion of Silvers.

Interestingly, I have been told that a relatively small proportion of travellers travelling F are Golds which is surprising, but the last 2 times I have been in F (pretty full cabins both times), I was told I was the only Gold in the cabin.

Globaliser

I'd be curious to know what period these numbers related to.

44,000 sounds plausible for the total number of departing passengers through T5 in a day, as a 2015 factsheet says "The terminal will typically look after between 550 and 600 weekday flights and around 90,000 customers on a normal day." Presumably, 90,000 counts both arriving and departing passengers.

A T5 lounge daily brief did surface here in 2015. That gave the numbers expected that day of 23 "Prem", ~2,600 Gold, ~2,700 Silver and ~2,000 Bronze.

Consequently, if that stat sheet referred to 44,000 total passengers that day, then 35 Prems and 3,000 Golds could be about right for one day - and I would then have thought it more plausible that the number of Silvers was ~2,700 (not ~27,000).

Globaliser

Following through from that thought about 2015, there was a Head for Points article earlier that year with the following numbers from a similar document for a day:-This is broadly consistent with the numbers on the lounge brief from later that year, and broadly consistent with the numbers quoted by fourstardust, other than the number of Silvers which appears to be out by something like a factor of 10.

Lolbert

Interesting - I had suspected that was the case

Oxon Flyer

If you read this as ‘the stat sheet’, and not ‘the passengers’, being in the First Wing, then it all makes sense.

gms

That sounds a much more plausible option for the number of Silvers! I think someone misread the sheet (or maybe it had a typo, you never know)! Just imagine the Galleries Club lounges with ~2,000 people per hour pouring through the doors - not a pleasant thought!

ThatT1Feeling

Aaahhhh the stat sheet is for the whole terminal... I am much happier now

groenroos

Maybe in the future, Gold will be 1,500 TP for women and 1,800 TP for men? That should help close the gap.