stevie

This is where I am at. 6-8 round trips per year in business class flying into HKG and generally our of PEK. Not possible until likely 2023 at the earliest. Surely BA can look at my flying history and make an exception.
If not, hey ho, its a big world of choice out there.

izzik

Well, we're at mid-December and no official word of more status extensions despite the various predictions and anecdotes from agents.
I guess it's time to just plan your TP runs (if chasing status) or accept the bittersweet taste of a soft landing.
I know we're all conditioned to panic when status is downgraded, but the reality is that there's little/no harm in losing status that you weren't using.
Premium perks can still be purchased (hello business class!), so you can feel special when it's time to get back on the hamster wheel of elite status.

stewaran

Interesting point, I guess it the rest of the world gets back to normal, these anomalies will lose out.
However most regular fliers will have some travel vouchers built up, So maybe they dont need status to lock people in when they have your actual money?

Im a June Renewal and have just enough flown and already booked to meet the lower target, with many more trips to book if i can. Making me worry about renewing seems to serve very little benefit.

hfly

Yes KARFA, however a colleagues experience last Wednesday was the following (originally he was arriving Wednesday morning and was due to leave Friday night all booked before the new regs went into effect on the 7th). He managed to get a test done only on Thursday morning. He did not get the results back until after 4PM Thursday afternoon. He then was essentially stuck in the UK until tomorrow (Tues) as the work/meetings he was supposed to have done on Thursday have been happening today. So he had to spend an additional 4 days in the UK due to these regs. Personally I was supposed to have been in the UK this week, which I cancelled due to these regs.

GBOAC

Correct on my renewal. However I will have limited travel opportunities from the spring for probably the rest of my collection year for personal reasons and was aiming to front end everything in the period I was able to travel. Yes most likely I will be able to make up the deficit (with a one-way PE ticket), but this is not a certainty, especially if travel restrictions either domestically or internationally tighten further, or I'm as grounded as my current 'worst case' scenario suggests.

In response to your general question, it is a difficult one for BA. And I would say that freezing status until 90% of destinations are operating normally for 12 months is not unreasonable. Its not as if lounges will be full as fewer people are/will be travelling. And is is unfair on those who regularly use closed or sporadically-closed destinations... BA profited from them in the good times..... Around 30-40% of my flying used to be to or via TLV until a few years ago, so a 25% reduction in threshold really does not cut it for me... TLV is a premium heavy route, along with HKG (as an exemplar in Asia) and consideration needs to be given for these routes. Maybe less so for holiday destinations where there is more elasticity in choice (although there will be some with overseas holiday properties for whom this elasticity does not exist).

Its not as if work will just let me bill a TATL flight because I can't fly elsewhere...

mmxbreaks

Presumably BA will either issue an extension by end of December for those historically ignored April-ers, or won't. Believe it was 20th of month last time. So it'll either be a nice Christmas present or slap from Santa I s'pose.

Mixbury

Apologies if this is mentioned upthread, but with so many posts..

I noticed that under the benefits section of manage my account it shows the next benefit as the GUF2 at 2,500 tier points, not renewal at 2,250. Does the hive know why?

xenole

I should more than requalify for Gold after a flight tomorrow. Been 10 days since my TPs reset, so not too bad.
Nice being able to get some flights in.

Next week's one's, for 80-100TP, I may not bother with, although they would take me a little closer to GGL.
Just need to find something to book with my FTVs, e-vouchers and AA credit.

Flyertalker001342

Maybe you can use your AA credit on their shopping channel; way better than trying to fly with them. Perhaps they have a storefront selling LPGS.

mmxbreaks

But in the app you should see your equivalent of this with the 2250 goal?

carrotjuice

It's already 20th of the quarter. I hear from some acquaintances that BA has emailed today to extend their FTV to 30 Sep 2023. Still no news / chatter about possible status extension for April to June babies?

KARFA

All FTVs were extended to end of September 2023 back in August.

golfmad

It's the 20th day of the month. It's the 81st day of the quarter.

Wozza2404

Given the lockdown rumblings from the media that are speculated to come in next week, I'd be very surprised if we hear anything from BA before the end of the year.

izzik

So, bottom line -- don't plan on BA extending status.