FAQ : BAEC : status extensions & Tier Point (re)qualification thresholds reduced
Feb 18, 2023, 8:59 pm
#5371
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Aberdeenshire
Programs: BA Exec Silver, Aeroplan, Hilton Honors Gold
Posts: 1,125
Sort of a related question: my TP renewal date is 8th July and I have my flight that should renew my status me on the 4th. Will the points post in time, or if they have not posted by the 8th, will my status renew correctly when they do post?
Feb 19, 2023, 5:43 am
#5373
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Singapore
Programs: BA Gold. KrisFlyer Gold
Posts: 732
My renewal date was 8th Feb 2023 and I had accumulated 1395 TPs and the required 4 flights, expecting to be downgraded to Gold (as I had reached the reduced threshold for Gold by 31st Dec 2022).
However, the app and online account still shows me as GGL, and I am being informed that I need 3000 TPs to renew GGL by 8th Feb 2024. My card expiry date remains at 31st March 2023, however. I presume the app will show me as Gold from 1st April when my current GGL card expires? Or have BA been kind enough to renew my GGL status despite not reaching the required TPs?
Not been in this scenario before so am not clear when the new lower status shows in the app, or what to expect.
However, the app and online account still shows me as GGL, and I am being informed that I need 3000 TPs to renew GGL by 8th Feb 2024. My card expiry date remains at 31st March 2023, however. I presume the app will show me as Gold from 1st April when my current GGL card expires? Or have BA been kind enough to renew my GGL status despite not reaching the required TPs?
Not been in this scenario before so am not clear when the new lower status shows in the app, or what to expect.
Feb 19, 2023, 6:08 am
#5374
Join Date: Dec 2017
Posts: 833
My renewal date was 8th Feb 2023 and I had accumulated 1395 TPs and the required 4 flights, expecting to be downgraded to Gold (as I had reached the reduced threshold for Gold by 31st Dec 2022).
However, the app and online account still shows me as GGL, and I am being informed that I need 3000 TPs to renew GGL by 8th Feb 2024. My card expiry date remains at 31st March 2023, however. I presume the app will show me as Gold from 1st April when my current GGL card expires? Or have BA been kind enough to renew my GGL status despite not reaching the required TPs?
Not been in this scenario before so am not clear when the new lower status shows in the app, or what to expect.
However, the app and online account still shows me as GGL, and I am being informed that I need 3000 TPs to renew GGL by 8th Feb 2024. My card expiry date remains at 31st March 2023, however. I presume the app will show me as Gold from 1st April when my current GGL card expires? Or have BA been kind enough to renew my GGL status despite not reaching the required TPs?
Not been in this scenario before so am not clear when the new lower status shows in the app, or what to expect.
Feb 19, 2023, 6:40 am
#5375
Join Date: Jul 2013
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, Hilton Diamond *, IHG, Couples Romance Rewards
Posts: 2,346
My renewal date was 8th Feb 2023 and I had accumulated 1395 TPs and the required 4 flights, expecting to be downgraded to Gold (as I had reached the reduced threshold for Gold by 31st Dec 2022).
However, the app and online account still shows me as GGL, and I am being informed that I need 3000 TPs to renew GGL by 8th Feb 2024. My card expiry date remains at 31st March 2023, however. I presume the app will show me as Gold from 1st April when my current GGL card expires? Or have BA been kind enough to renew my GGL status despite not reaching the required TPs?
Not been in this scenario before so am not clear when the new lower status shows in the app, or what to expect.
However, the app and online account still shows me as GGL, and I am being informed that I need 3000 TPs to renew GGL by 8th Feb 2024. My card expiry date remains at 31st March 2023, however. I presume the app will show me as Gold from 1st April when my current GGL card expires? Or have BA been kind enough to renew my GGL status despite not reaching the required TPs?
Not been in this scenario before so am not clear when the new lower status shows in the app, or what to expect.
Feb 21, 2023, 5:09 am
#5376
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: KUO
Programs: BA Gold, HH Diamond
Posts: 447
Mar 1, 2023, 4:21 am
#5377
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC GGL/CCR; TK Elite; ITA Executive; Hilton Diamond; Marriott Bonvoy Platinum
Posts: 1,551
All I got in writing from a GGL line agent (not the Loyalty team) are the following lines, after chasing:
Dear Mr 81romeo
As per our phone call earlier this morning I can confirm you have another year of Gold Guest List based on the two flights you took in December where the tier points from these flights meant you had qualified under the reduced threshold by 31st December 2022.
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Dear Mr 81romeo
As per our phone call earlier this morning I can confirm you have another year of Gold Guest List based on the two flights you took in December where the tier points from these flights meant you had qualified under the reduced threshold by 31st December 2022.
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Mar 8, 2023, 6:31 am
#5379
Join Date: Aug 2019
Programs: BAEC Gold (1w Emerald), United Platinum (*G), Marriott Plat Elite
Posts: 351
Mar 8, 2023, 6:33 am
#5380
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: LON
Programs: Mucci, BAEC, Eurostar
Posts: 3,283
- Where are you based?
- By when do you need them?
- What are your other constraints?
- Most importantly: what have you already found in your own research?
Mar 9, 2023, 1:04 am
#5382
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Beijing
Programs: SK EBG, BAEC Gold
Posts: 932
Just looking for a sanity check here - as I think my wife has a "bank error in her favour" regarding Gold card expiry date, at least to my understanding of the extensions that have been given. Quite possible though that my understanding is not correct, as I stopped following all the details a while back (when it seemed that zero-covid in China was going to go on and on indefinitely).
So pre-pandemic (July 2019) I gifted her a Gold card (May 8th Tier Point collection year) as a GGL. I haven't gifted her Gold status since that time, as (i) it isn't possible to do that until she drops back to silver and (ii) I used the Gold card gifting for other people.
She currently has zero Tier Points. Also we live in China, where restrictions and the requirement for government-managed quarantine were just relaxed in January this year, so she has not flown outside China on any airline, let alone on a OneWorld airline, for more than three years. So zero Tier Points over all that time, given there are no domestic OneWorld affiliated airlines inside China, at least yet ...
What then should her Gold card expiry date be at this point in time?
As far I can tell it should be June 2023 (extended fully twice from 2019, but with zero TPs in the present year, she only has Gold until the end of the month following her next TP reset date)
Is that correct? Or should it be end of June 2024 (which is what her account currently says ...)?
So pre-pandemic (July 2019) I gifted her a Gold card (May 8th Tier Point collection year) as a GGL. I haven't gifted her Gold status since that time, as (i) it isn't possible to do that until she drops back to silver and (ii) I used the Gold card gifting for other people.
She currently has zero Tier Points. Also we live in China, where restrictions and the requirement for government-managed quarantine were just relaxed in January this year, so she has not flown outside China on any airline, let alone on a OneWorld airline, for more than three years. So zero Tier Points over all that time, given there are no domestic OneWorld affiliated airlines inside China, at least yet ...
What then should her Gold card expiry date be at this point in time?
As far I can tell it should be June 2023 (extended fully twice from 2019, but with zero TPs in the present year, she only has Gold until the end of the month following her next TP reset date)
Is that correct? Or should it be end of June 2024 (which is what her account currently says ...)?
Mar 11, 2023, 9:35 am
#5383
Join Date: May 2003
Location: TLL
Programs: OZ Diamond, BA Gold, Bonvoy Ambassador, HH Gold
Posts: 4,410
Got a very nice surprise this morning. I have been Gold for about ten years, was expecting to drop to Silver, as I just didn't get enough opportunities to travel on BA this past year. I had 800 tier points (so would have made Silver even without the soft landing) and got an email today that my Gold level has been extended for an additional year. I hadn't asked, so it was a nice gesture from BA and is definitely giving me a good deal of motivation to try and hit Gold this year.
Mar 11, 2023, 5:14 pm
#5384
Join Date: Aug 2001
Posts: 9,670
Got a very nice surprise this morning. I have been Gold for about ten years, was expecting to drop to Silver, as I just didn't get enough opportunities to travel on BA this past year. I had 800 tier points (so would have made Silver even without the soft landing) and got an email today that my Gold level has been extended for an additional year. I hadn't asked, so it was a nice gesture from BA and is definitely giving me a good deal of motivation to try and hit Gold this year.
