SFO_Flyr

What about your itin/ticket gave you cause for concern that it might not be honored, and to seek confirmation? Did you use any discounts?

T-15.01

given the confusing page, offer, reward and T&Cs, my routing could have legitimately been denied by them (based on the T&Cs) so I wanted to be ahead of that. Initially on the phone they said good to go. I wrote them, they said no. I pushed back, they checked and then confirmed it was good for certain. I don't mind the back and forth. It's worth it. Advice to all is to do the same to cover yourselves.

private_md

At what email address did you contact them?

T-15.01

Login and go to help/contacts and then choose Executive Club and there's a webform.

https://www.britishairways.com/travel/askbainter/public/en_us

Or if you need to find out sooner, do the web chat. Takes a little while to get someone, but then it's live. I called in first and got the answer I wanted to get but knowing if in 5 months I fly and they reneg, telling them I called in will be as good as useless.

izzik

Note: there are a few reports of Alaska Airlines lounge agents not accepting this method of using one account for lounge access but crediting to another account.
The majority of Oneworld lounges don't have this hangup so .. YMMV.

T-15.01

if it's an issue just use the same account for lounge access and miles credit and then once in the lounge call or text to change it. Bit of a pain but still doable.

The issue is the lounge agent has to let you in if you present status affixed to the ticket you're on. Sure, some will make an allowance but this is all back office charge based. Enter an AS lounge as a BA elite and BA pay AS. Once you're in though, that part of the process is done. Then you can switch the alliance on the ticket to accrue as you wish.

And lastly if that's not possible change it after the flight. Have BA as the example deduct the credit and then add it to wherever you wanted it to go.

I've found *A much more flexible on status vs. accrual on the same ticket.

kabroui

Yes it does. Android app here and took a screen shot of mine and sent to BA, got a reply back in 2 days upgrading me to silver status.

Now I'm trying to figure out what constitutes a qualifying flight for the extension as they are pretty vague about that. I found a nice fare BOS-LHR, but it says 'DISCOUNTED' which sounds like a good excuse for BA to say... nah nah nah... Sorry.

leroy11

I am not convinced that published fares issued by travel agents are excluded. It refers to industry and travel agent industry discounts - which to me sounds like agent fares that only travel agents themselves can use for their personal travel.

catmndu

A singular data point on becoming gold via this match...

I submitted the request on May 1st. I just today (May 4th, 09:20 MST) received a response indicating that I'm now BA gold.

ryanbriar

Agree. If I end up doing this (status going out to 3/31/26 is key to hedge against CK for only one year), I�ll likely book thru Amex / Chase (which is based on Expedia) to use points and try to line up with the EDI meet-up. Taking the wait-and-see approach on this one.

private_md

This (hedge against losing CK) was my thought exactly. BA TWTR tells me that completing the challenge will result in an expiration date in 01/2025 and if that is true, there�s no value. Hopefully someone will complete the challenge RT and share their new expiry date.

private_md

I sent a a query to YouFirst and they said with a qualifying flight, my expiry would be 01/2026. Going to take the extra flights on 08/2016. Fingers crossed.

therossinator

Where did you find an email for them? I can only find a phone number and physical address. The person I talked to in the phone said transatlantic portion could be taken on partners (Finnair or Iberia) so I booked LAX to MXP on BA and ARN to LAX on Finnair with them at that time. The terms seem a bit vague whether the long haul need to be in Club Suites/First or if partner business counts as well. I’d love to have something in writing.

edit: just realized it was earlier in the thread. I’ll let everyone know when I hear back for my specific situation.

therossinator

The link (as well as getting to it through BA.com�s menus) leads me to a blank page. Thought it was a browser issue but neither chrome nor safari showed and content in the body of the webpage. I used chat instead and after an hour of going back and forth was able to confirm that LAX-LHR-MXP all on BA and ARN-HEL-LAX all on AY, booked on a BA ticket, would qualify me to retain gold status. I saved my chat transcript and will see what happens after my flights in August.

coleslaw

I am confused by all of the dates