scottishpoet

If what has been said is correct ,they have made silver, then what would be shown is what is needed to get to gold. Maybe some timing issue having met thevreduced silver threshold but not the regular threshold before going for gold.A renewal number for silver till october, when silver has already bedn achieved, is meaningless. Just ignore it

FlyingNowhere

Mine expires 8th October - so I guess I miss out by a week or so. Hmmm
No-where near close to getting gold renewal.
Might email them nearer the time asking if any leeway
I do want to travel and miss travelling!
While some areas of travel such as USA have returned healthy, 80% of my travel was going east, and a good chunk of Asia is still a mess really.
The bulk of my corporate travel is still on hold (which was a nice earner to pay for holiday travel from overtime working away).... that's not really BA's fault, but I can't imagine I am alone here in seeing a huge drop in work travel.

scottishpoet

you are not, that is why BA have been offering double points on BA holodaya bookings

If you were close i could see some leeway being offered, if you had a load of cancelled flights too. You said yourself you are miles off so I do not see it happening.

If they did extend you would you suddenly start travelling? I see the bulk of ygat on hold for a while. Finance people will not want to see travel expense costs increasec1000s of percent. There will be a slow climb back to corporate travel levels. Even mor

Seems any leeway would just be delaying the inevitable based on your mid term travel profile. Silver isnt so bad

JP Flyer

Like scottishpoet says, Silver isn’t so bad and at least when/if business travel resumes you would get the remainder of that year plus the next year at Gold.

PUCCI GALORE

I may be wrong but I have a sneaking suspicion that the 31st December date may well be put back to next year, With all this nonsense this summer and the very real prospect of people boycotting Heathrow in future for connections (and who could blame them?) they will need to do something to make them want to stay. As I entertain a niggling feeling that BA is going to have a clear out of Elites by raising the Goalposts as it is clear that these so-called First Lounges at LHR are constantly packed. It must cost a fortune to keep these running.

That however is for another time. At the moment the very people who travel at short notice are being denied that possibility because of Heathrow's incompetence. Whoever heard of an airline prohibited from selling tickets to its customers. This is now extended to 15th August - it simply cannot go rolling on.

Crampedin13A

One of the reasons I no longer care if they finally drop me to Silver. Travelling is difficult enough these days that if I'm stumping up for the prices BA want I'll take airlines that have a better product and some certainty of actually flying and avoiding LHR. YYZ-LHR is just asking for trouble with airport/government incompetence on both ends

scottishpoet

this would be extending the reduced tp threshold?

i do not see it myself, there are many ways to get the tp without flying ba

PUCCI GALORE

Enlighten me please.

KARFA

what do you want enlightened about? There have been many months of lots of flights to book, and there are many months more this year with flights to book. And this doesn’t even account for all the non BA flights where you can earn. And of course you don’t even need normal levels of TPs until the end of the year with the 25% reduced thresholds.

Tbh it seems with any disruption now there are always a few who start the demand for extensions. It can come across as entitled. It seems some are unable to move past the BA social security they have been receiving for a few years.

FlightDetective

This is true, and when you login to your Executive Club account on desktop, there is a huge great big message explaining exactly what is happening regarding the 31 December 2022 reduction, like so.


I don't see why people are confused by this still, when it's written right in front of your face on the website when you login to your account.

Maybe it's not on mobile, or maybe people just don't read. I don't know, but it seems pretty straightforward to me.

Erwin10

Above message somehow not showing for me! I'll give it a few days and then ring Exec club and double check.

danmushman

Different accounts are not displaying the same. My partner's one shows the above message with incorrect progress bar target (non-reduced TPs), my account shows the correct target in the progress bar and doesn't have the extra written message.

FlightDetective

Your partner's one is like mine, which is correct. It says in the message text,

"From 1 January 2023, the normal Tier Point thresholds, as you can see in your progress tracker, will then apply."

I imagine the difference between your two accounts is down to renewal dates. Have you already passed your 2022 date yet? Mine was June and all of this appeared immediately after.

danmushman

I agree that the requirements pre and post 31 Dec 22 are clear, it's just BA's IT not doing the best job. I suspect it is related to year end dates. Will pass my renewal in 4 days, but I reached gold last month (BA IT suggests I've 'retained gold') so the progress bar has switched to Gold Upgrade Voucher target.

FlightDetective

Congrats on hitting Gold, it's a fun place to be!

Yeah it will be the year end date then as I suspected. Yours will change over then to look like mine, with a 1,500 target and the message about the reduction through to 31 December.