DYKWIA | 2023 edition
Feb 6, 23, 10:13 pm
#61
Join Date: Jul 2009
Programs: BAEC GGL, IHG Diamond, HHonors Diamond
Posts: 7,137
Originally Posted by ginger50
Maybe he spent 2022 doing BA holidays?
MAN-LHR-JFK in CE/F would yield 500TP (40 + 210 each way), so once a month would give him 6000TP.
Might be a half decent amount of (work) spend, but not really a "frequent" flyer.
The average person though isnt going to reaching that, and i generally don't bother too much once ive hit a target threshold.
I do see some points of view.
I can do 3-4 TP runs and/or BA Holidays, hit the threshold for GGL, ideally as cheaply as possible, and then use the CCR on my cheap economy ticket. He could fly premium cabins, have 10x my TPs, yet be classed as exactly the same by BA.
Feb 6, 23, 10:38 pm
#62
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: SEA
Programs: BA GGL, HH Diamond, Marriott Gold, AS
Posts: 129
Originally Posted by KARFA
you can easily get that level of tps and more, and not be deemed a high value ggl or get any attention from ss.
Originally Posted by crazy8534
Questions! So many questions! 
Sounds like they were a lowly 97 like most of us GGLs
Feb 7, 23, 1:52 am
#63
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: UK
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, BA Amex Prem, BA Amex Business, Amex Platinum, Coutts Silk, Hilton Diamond etc.
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Originally Posted by xenole
I do see some points of view.
I can do 3-4 TP runs and/or BA Holidays, hit the threshold for GGL, ideally as cheaply as possible, and then use the CCR on my cheap economy ticket. He could fly premium cabins, have 10x my TPs, yet be classed as exactly the same by BA.
I can do 3-4 TP runs and/or BA Holidays, hit the threshold for GGL, ideally as cheaply as possible, and then use the CCR on my cheap economy ticket. He could fly premium cabins, have 10x my TPs, yet be classed as exactly the same by BA.
Originally Posted by UrbanLegend
I guess CIV is more logarithmic in terms of value. The difference between 36-39 is a world apart from 97-100, and thus the gap between 97 and 98 is pretty large.
Sounds like they were a lowly 97 like most of us GGLs
Sounds like they were a lowly 97 like most of us GGLs
But my point is really just that (unless we think he was bare-face lying) at some point BA considered him worthy of a regular escort, and then they didn't.
And at a human level, the easiest way to upset people is to give them something, and then take it away.
I, on the other hand, do not miss either my chauffeur or my secret service detail, because, I am deeply, deeply ashamed to admit on here, have never had them...!
DON'T THEY ******* KNOW WHO I AM...??!!
Feb 7, 23, 2:23 am
#64
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: UK - South Coast & London
Programs: Mucci de Guardian des Celliers des Grands Crus 1e Classé, plus BAEC.
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Originally Posted by crazy8534
I, on the other hand, do not miss either my chauffeur or my secret service detail, because, I am deeply, deeply ashamed to admit on here, have never had them...!
DON'T THEY ******* KNOW WHO I AM...??!!
DON'T THEY ******* KNOW WHO I AM...??!!
A 24/7 driver is very nice however! As I think when I splurge on an Uber Lux and pretend I’m not paying by the mile! 😁😁
Feb 7, 23, 7:32 am
#67
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Wiltshire
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[QUOTE=Red_01;34990574]Today in the CCR - some middle-aged chap with an unbearable sense of self-importance getting quite upset at the BA staff behind the counter, that he's not been picked up at all this year by the special services team and driven to immigration. Apparently they used to do that for him on every flight pre-pandemic.
Perhaps BA could purchase a used mobility cart and pimp it up a bit as VIP transport for the self-important to ride in style from aircaft door to immigration past all of us plebs who walk.
Perhaps BA could purchase a used mobility cart and pimp it up a bit as VIP transport for the self-important to ride in style from aircaft door to immigration past all of us plebs who walk.
Last edited by Trident 3B; Feb 7, 23 at 7:38 am
Feb 7, 23, 8:00 am
#68
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: London
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[QUOTE=Trident 3B;34992675]
Perhaps BA could purchase a used mobility cart and pimp it up a bit as VIP transport for the self-important to ride in style from aircaft door to immigration past all of us plebs who walk.
Been there, done that & got the T-shirt.
Well, of course BA did just that pre-Covid. Not sure I’d describe the golf buggy BA used as pimped up, but it was a service I used a couple of times.
Doc Copper
Originally Posted by Red_01
Today in the CCR - some middle-aged chap with an unbearable sense of self-importance getting quite upset at the BA staff behind the counter, that he's not been picked up at all this year by the special services team and driven to immigration. Apparently they used to do that for him on every flight pre-pandemic.
Originally Posted by Red_01
Perhaps BA could purchase a used mobility cart and pimp it up a bit as VIP transport for the self-important to ride in style from aircaft door to immigration past all of us plebs who walk.
Well, of course BA did just that pre-Covid. Not sure I’d describe the golf buggy BA used as pimped up, but it was a service I used a couple of times.
Doc Copper
Feb 7, 23, 11:27 am
#69
Join Date: Jul 2014
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Originally Posted by lavajava
There are several passive mini ones in the responses...
Feb 7, 23, 11:07 pm
#70
Join Date: Mar 2020
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Originally Posted by Irreverent Medusa
Self-upgrader on my ZRH-LCY right now. He saw 5C/D empty and just sat in there until the people whose seats it was got the FA who checked and sent him and his cabin luggage to his rightful seat in row 9 - not even that far down so a bit pointless. There's 6 rows of CE on the flight.
Feb 7, 23, 11:32 pm
#72
Join Date: Mar 2020
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Originally Posted by ChateauneufDuPape
The current CE product is hardly theft worthy….a farmfoods ready meal and a miniature bottle of plonk from Asda has more appeal!
Feb 20, 23, 1:34 am
#73
Join Date: Aug 2019
Programs: Avios
Posts: 51
Had a man walk directly in front of us in the First/Gold queue last night at EWR because obviously we couldn't possibly have been GCH or travelling in First. Unfortunately for him we were both. He looked rather sheepish when our eyes met on the flight. He'd been making a point about asking at check-in about the F facilities in the airport (which we know there are few other than the pleasant F dining, which for some reason he never found).
My husband was rather annoyed and the otherwise delightful lady at the check-in desk apologised for not reprimanding him.
My husband was rather annoyed and the otherwise delightful lady at the check-in desk apologised for not reprimanding him.
Feb 20, 23, 2:03 am
#74
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: BHX
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Originally Posted by crazy8534
And I very much agree with the general feeling on Mr Important who wasn't quite as important as he thought he was....
But my point is really just that (unless we think he was bare-face lying) at some point BA considered him worthy of a regular escort, and then they didn't.
And at a human level, the easiest way to upset people is to give them something, and then take it away.
But my point is really just that (unless we think he was bare-face lying) at some point BA considered him worthy of a regular escort, and then they didn't.
And at a human level, the easiest way to upset people is to give them something, and then take it away.
Hit 8k+ TPs with the bulk on BA metal and you may well find yourself on the path to a 98 CIV and the C gate transfers, etc. that (sometimes) come with it. But if your travel drops off the following year you WILL drop back to 97 (assuming you keep GGL). I assume this is what happened to the chap in the story above.
Feb 20, 23, 4:55 am
#75
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: UK
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Originally Posted by Wozza2404
Isn't this the point of airline status, though? Just because you attain something for one year, doesn't entitle you to it again the following year if you haven't met the retention criteria.
Hit 8k+ TPs with the bulk on BA metal and you may well find yourself on the path to a 98 CIV and the C gate transfers, etc. that (sometimes) come with it. But if your travel drops off the following year you WILL drop back to 97 (assuming you keep GGL). I assume this is what happened to the chap in the story above.
Hit 8k+ TPs with the bulk on BA metal and you may well find yourself on the path to a 98 CIV and the C gate transfers, etc. that (sometimes) come with it. But if your travel drops off the following year you WILL drop back to 97 (assuming you keep GGL). I assume this is what happened to the chap in the story above.
