northeastflyer

I guess we'll just see what happens with this in general as time goes on, but I think it's foolish to think that most people can achieve anywhere near their TP thresholds for at least the next year or so. There are still so many travel restrictions in place and until that changes I personally think that BA need to take a long hard look. For example, I'd planned to have earned the reduced TP level, but due to restrictions and cancellations I'll only gain 400 TP by my year end. No doubt there will be many people in similar situations. Do I think BA should do the right thing and extend the reduced thresholds? Absolutely, but I suspect they won't.

i_concur

So with March 22 (and 23) reset and 2x140 each way BAH double tier point bookings (may / October) I should only need 5 more TP to go gold as long as I get them before December 31 2022.

carrotjuice

Unsure about the specifics of your membership, based on 8 January 2022 precedents, you should see reset to full TPs reflected come 8 March 2022, for your membership year ending 8 March 2023.

ademanuele

My collection year end was yesterday and I was a little miffed when I opened the app this morning as the COVID-19 statement is not shown. It only appears on the web site so great news...

zen100

So the guidance was updated 2 days ago. I've added bold for the key parts.

I think BA is correct to show the full targets in the app. For Jan 2023 reset, it's practically reduced thresholds for the whole year - just the final 8 days of the year. But as the year progresses on, the full target will apply more and more.

So this is (finally) pretty clear, which is good.

https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb...s-and-benefits

wilsnunn

Finally some clarity from BA! Quite how it took them so long is beyond me but I am glad it has at last been cleared up.

orbitmic

thanks - that confirms that for July, August, and September renewal this is totally useless for now and we’ll have to wait and hope for a further status exemption…

FlightDetective

Oh very good, it's exactly what I expected it to be.

With a June renewal, it will give me six months to hit the reduced threshold, which is grand as I already have a 560TP trip booked for July.

zen100

My suspicion, is they needed time to be able to display different tier point targets in the app - and held back from clarifying until they knew for certain that IT could follow through on what the business guys wanted to implement, rather than continually changing things.

The app needs to be able to display the different thresholds from the start of the collection year, otherwise customers are given the wrong expectation.

I suspect this change occurred behind the scenes, in the big November update

zen100

Not totally useless. Previously it wasn't clear if you would have reduced tier points from July 2022 to July 2023 at all. Now it's clear you will have the reduced thresholds, if you achieve them by December 31st 2022.

Appreciate that wasn't what you were looking for (a status extension for the current year). But July-Sept resets have more than they had a few days ago, even if it wasn't what you wanted.

The fact that BA are now showing different targets for different year-ends might also point towards BA reducing the tier point targets further for Jul-2022 resets, rather than a blanket status extension (if they do anything).

orbitmic

I can't think of any interpretation under which reduced tier points till 12/22 would mean you could not benefit from it if you met the reduced target by 12/22 (indeed, many others in this very thread assumed that it would necessarily mean that you could benefit from the reduced target as long as your membership year started by 12/22).

As for why I am calling it useless, what it means for those people is that BA's great gift is that if you can achieve 75% of your target in 24-49% of a membership year you will requalify. It is almost more akin to some airlines' standard status challenge rather than a covid-related reduced target, and as far as I am concerned, I consider it useless enough that I would be entirely fine with BAEC withdrawing that particular offer from me.

Again, I am not saying that things will not be amended later as BA seem to consider adaptations on a 3 month basis and I hope that they will continue doing so, but in the meantime, I feel no safer about my ability to protect my status today than I did before they made their announcement.

drwook

I'm assuming it's to get things back to normal for 2023, but that more extensions are likely through 2022 - so hopefully everyone rolls in to a broadly pre-covid-style 2023 as things really are getting back to usual, with an opportunity to upgrade at lower thresholds to encourage travel but avoiding the 'cliff edge' for those that can't.

sunshinebob

I was told by an old sales manager in the 1980's that to assume makes an "a s s" of "u" and "me" , something that has stuck with me since.

And as for more extensions, I for one doubt it , BA and others will need to draw a line in the sand somewhere sometime and I kinda feel we are fast approaching that moment.

wilsnunn

There is talk of what is necessary and what isn’t necessary and fair and what isn’t fair. Given how fast things can change, I believe that the only way to know what is the right thing to do is retroactively. It could be that for March 2022 onwards, travel gets close to pre-COVID in the borders open and testing/quarantine requirements start to disappear but it could be that a new super deadly variant turns up and grounds us all again. Each of those scenarios has very different necessary reactions in terms of status extensions and threshold reductions.

RG1X

My card expiry date still showing as 30th June 2022. I guess it's not technically the end of the week yet, but yeah... not expecting it to be updated.