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Old Apr 3, 2024, 12:16 am
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Gold for Life - Is this a record?
Got it yesterday, first flight 23 Mar 1994, so 30 years and 9 days, (or 10,969 days).

Anyone taken longer?

(Oh, and two months until I retire!)
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Old Apr 3, 2024, 12:40 am
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Congratulations! It's a marathon, not a sprint.
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Old Apr 3, 2024, 1:27 am
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Well done! As someone who started flying with BA (BOAC) in 1970 and only achieved Silver last year I think you've done brilliantly!

I wonder what the quickest is?
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Old Apr 3, 2024, 1:27 am
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Congratulations! I am always up for a challenge!

I reckon I will beat your record in due course. Due course being either an infinite number of years or… based on progress to date and cash available in the future… I will be aged one hundred and eleventy eleven.
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Old Apr 3, 2024, 1:39 am
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Originally Posted by Saladman
Well done! As someone who started flying with BA (BOAC) in 1970 and only achieved Silver last year I think you've done brilliantly!

I wonder what the quickest is?
I suspect some folk like CWS were well over the necessary when GFL was first introduced.

If you did LHR - JFK twice a month in first, it would take you about 3.5 years!
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Old Apr 3, 2024, 1:44 am
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Originally Posted by Midships
I suspect some folk like CWS were well over the necessary when GFL was first introduced.

If you did LHR - JFK twice a month in first, it would take you about 3.5 years!
There were some people who instantly became GGLfL when they introduced the tier- a couple of them posted at the time.
Amazing also when you bear in mind that for many years BA didn't award any TPs whatsoever for certain classes of travel.

Well done Midships- GfL in 30 years, you've been flying 9 years longer than I've been alive...
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Old Apr 3, 2024, 1:46 am
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It would be nice if BA made a little more effort with GfLs. It is a significant achievement, representing years of loyalty.
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Old Apr 3, 2024, 1:52 am
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At that rate you could have made GfL without ever being gold! Now that would be an interesting quirk!
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Old Apr 3, 2024, 1:55 am
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Originally Posted by Finland Station
It would be nice if BA made a little more effort with GfLs. It is a significant achievement, representing years of loyalty.
I think by the creation of GfL at 35k is the reward in itself? Why not add them to Group 0 too?

Gold/Emerald privileges are quite good really and to gain perhaps 30 or more years for some is quite generous but YMMV as always.

Oh, congratulations Midships
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Old Apr 3, 2024, 2:00 am
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Just before retirement - seems to me you've achieved GFL in the best way possible - gently, without stress and just in time.
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Old Apr 3, 2024, 2:16 am
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Originally Posted by crazy8534

Well done Midships- GfL in 30 years, you've been flying 9 years longer than I've been alive...
Well that makes me feel a lot better about things.
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Old Apr 3, 2024, 2:17 am
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Originally Posted by ThatT1Feeling
Just before retirement - seems to me you've achieved GFL in the best way possible - gently, without stress and just in time.
Indeed, Mrs. M. has set it as a goal for me, somewhere nice to sit before heading off across Europe once we get back from Singapore.
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Old Apr 3, 2024, 4:16 am
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Originally Posted by Midships
Got it yesterday, first flight 23 Mar 1994, so 30 years and 9 days, (or 10,969 days).

Anyone taken longer?

(Oh, and two months until I retire!)
Being a retired old fogey, and Gfl, the lounges are great, and the cabin crew go miles out of their way to look after you, even when sitting down the back.
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Old Apr 3, 2024, 5:00 am
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Originally Posted by rapidex
Being a retired old fogey, and Gfl, the lounges are great, and the cabin crew go miles out of their way to look after you, even when sitting down the back.
Is there a change in CIV when one transitions from GCH to GfL ? I must say that cabin crew all treat me indifferently regardless of where I sit.
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Old Apr 3, 2024, 5:03 am
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Originally Posted by Tafflyer
Is there a change in CIV when one transitions from GCH to GfL ?
I don't believe so.
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