BA Holidays Double Tier Points Promotion | 2024-2025 edition
#2341




Join Date: Jan 2015
Programs: BAEC Gold, Flying Blue Platinum
Posts: 1,886
My recent experience is that the bonus TPs for the Outbound Flight were posted in less than three weeks after the flight, but the bonus TPs for the return flight taken over three weeks ago have not been posted. I spoke to a nice lady on the Gold Line this morning and she has sent a message to BAH to fix this and it should be done within 14 days.
#2342




Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: UK, TX, UAE
Programs: BA GGL, BA Amex Prem, Amex Plat, Hilton Diamond, Mucci
Posts: 6,447
Many thanks. FWIW, and this is pure speculation on my part, I agree with the suggestion made by someone else (exggler?) that the promotion will be modified to gently introduce the concept of revenue based TPs. This will just be for hotels and cars, initially.
Incrementalism on this hugely controversial subject is by far the best way and it will prepare the ground for wider revenue based recognitation if/when business travel returns to pre COVID levels.
Also, it doesn't make any sense that someone spending 10 grand on hotels with BA gets the same TPs as someone spending 500 quid.
Incrementalism on this hugely controversial subject is by far the best way and it will prepare the ground for wider revenue based recognitation if/when business travel returns to pre COVID levels.
Also, it doesn't make any sense that someone spending 10 grand on hotels with BA gets the same TPs as someone spending 500 quid.
1. The Amex promotion will have given them lots of useful data about credit card spend and effects of TP earning potential on that.
2. The planned/subsequently quickly retracted plans for TPs available to those who spend money on carbon offset suggests that earning TPs with ancillary products/BA spend is very much in the works.
3. Aside from what any of us have heard from staff the fact that the BAH double TP promotion was extended so many times as close to proves that BA considered it a success.
4. There will be lots of information (some shared and some not shared) from the experience of AA in its changed approach to earning status.
5. Aligning all of the TP earning years almost exactly with the fiscal year really suggests that there are other changes planned, I dont buy the reasons given at the time and I dont see why it suddenly became an issue to be solved after so long under the traditional system.
Just a guess on my part but I would say they are waiting for a big bang date for TP earning changes and when they are announced (e.g. April 25 for April 26 start) they will dovetail the bonus TP promotion to last until that moment.
Anyway, the only constant is change and whatever happens there will be losers and winners and we can only hope be in the later category! It would be amusing to me if the BAH double TPs promotion ended up being the entry drug for BA to go to full revenue-based TP earning!

#2343


Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 616
5. Aligning all of the TP earning years almost exactly with the fiscal year really suggests that there are other changes planned, I dont buy the reasons given at the time and I dont see why it suddenly became an issue to be solved after so long under the traditional system.
#2344


Join Date: Jun 2021
Programs: BAEC Silver, HHonors Gold
Posts: 123
OK - so an odd exprience for me, somewhat in the revers to what everyone else is seeing. Landed back frommy holiday on 20th October, bonus Avios posted on the 21st. Bonus TP credited on the 30th. Then a further round of bonus TP credited on the 7th. So, so far I've recieved 840 TP for a return flight + holiday to MSY in Club
#2346


Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: BER
Programs: BA GfL, Hilton Diamond, M&M Sen
Posts: 2,111
I agree and I think BA are just weighing-up their options here, if not already decided and waiting to announce:
1. The Amex promotion will have given them lots of useful data about credit card spend and effects of TP earning potential on that.
2. The planned/subsequently quickly retracted plans for TPs available to those who spend money on carbon offset suggests that earning TPs with ancillary products/BA spend is very much in the works.
3. Aside from what any of us have heard from staff the fact that the BAH double TP promotion was extended so many times as close to proves that BA considered it a success.
4. There will be lots of information (some shared and some not shared) from the experience of AA in its changed approach to earning status.
5. Aligning all of the TP earning years almost exactly with the fiscal year really suggests that there are other changes planned, I dont buy the reasons given at the time and I dont see why it suddenly became an issue to be solved after so long under the traditional system.
Just a guess on my part but I would say they are waiting for a big bang date for TP earning changes and when they are announced (e.g. April 25 for April 26 start) they will dovetail the bonus TP promotion to last until that moment.
Anyway, the only constant is change and whatever happens there will be losers and winners and we can only hope be in the later category! It would be amusing to me if the BAH double TPs promotion ended up being the entry drug for BA to go to full revenue-based TP earning!
1. The Amex promotion will have given them lots of useful data about credit card spend and effects of TP earning potential on that.
2. The planned/subsequently quickly retracted plans for TPs available to those who spend money on carbon offset suggests that earning TPs with ancillary products/BA spend is very much in the works.
3. Aside from what any of us have heard from staff the fact that the BAH double TP promotion was extended so many times as close to proves that BA considered it a success.
4. There will be lots of information (some shared and some not shared) from the experience of AA in its changed approach to earning status.
5. Aligning all of the TP earning years almost exactly with the fiscal year really suggests that there are other changes planned, I dont buy the reasons given at the time and I dont see why it suddenly became an issue to be solved after so long under the traditional system.
Just a guess on my part but I would say they are waiting for a big bang date for TP earning changes and when they are announced (e.g. April 25 for April 26 start) they will dovetail the bonus TP promotion to last until that moment.
Anyway, the only constant is change and whatever happens there will be losers and winners and we can only hope be in the later category! It would be amusing to me if the BAH double TPs promotion ended up being the entry drug for BA to go to full revenue-based TP earning!

sounds awful to me since i cant participate in those promotions. i hope youre not right. i expect that you are right, but i hope, youre not.
#2347




Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: London
Programs: MUCCI; BAC Lifetime Gold; Marriott Bonvoy Emeritus Titanium.
Posts: 3,424
#2348




Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Kent, UK
Programs: BA Gold; Virgin FF; United Airlines; American Airlines
Posts: 1,811
It makes sense to me, as someone who is not in a position ( or have the desire) to spend 10,000 on hotels, but takes the same flights would receive the same TPs as someone who chooses to spend that amount on hotels. I hope TPs dont become revenue-based.
#2349
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Ambassador: The British Airways Club, easyJet and Ryanair




Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: UK/Las Vegas
Programs: BA Gold (GGL/CCR)
Posts: 17,034
We appear to be straying off topic again with speculation on the future of TPs and how TPs may be earned. This is a very busy topic with wide interest on the ins and outs of the double TP promotion. Can we please concentrate discussion on the double TP promotion and discuss other topics elsewhere on FT.
At the end of the day BA have made no public statements about changing the way TPs might be earned in the future, the discussion on FT about a possible move to revenue based qualification is pure speculation by a small number of individuals based entirely on guesswork rather than on any inside information. BA will no doubt be aware of the damage caused to Delta when it announced changes to its qualification requirements and after the ensuing backlash having to reverse much of what they announced.
It would be appreciated if discussion in this topic is restricted to actual TP earning via the BAH Double Tier Point Promotion rather than speculative discussion and unconvincing arguments on the possibility of a move to revenue based qualification at some future date.
At the end of the day BA have made no public statements about changing the way TPs might be earned in the future, the discussion on FT about a possible move to revenue based qualification is pure speculation by a small number of individuals based entirely on guesswork rather than on any inside information. BA will no doubt be aware of the damage caused to Delta when it announced changes to its qualification requirements and after the ensuing backlash having to reverse much of what they announced.
It would be appreciated if discussion in this topic is restricted to actual TP earning via the BAH Double Tier Point Promotion rather than speculative discussion and unconvincing arguments on the possibility of a move to revenue based qualification at some future date.
#2350



Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: LON
Programs: BA Gold, LH SEN , A3*G & others less exciting that don't fit in my wallet
Posts: 1,858
Is the email address mentioned upthread the best way to retroclaim the bonus TPs ? ... the live chat on the website used to be great but has become fairly useless now as the AI hasn't very much 'I' at all and it's hard to get put through to a human.
Travelled recently with family and 2 of our TPs and bonuses posted fine after a week or so .. but for the other 2 nothing at all posted .. I retroclaimed the basic Avios/TPs no problem on the website, but there's no method to claim the missing bonus TPs obviously and I assume they won't post automatically at this stage for the other 2 pax.
Travelled recently with family and 2 of our TPs and bonuses posted fine after a week or so .. but for the other 2 nothing at all posted .. I retroclaimed the basic Avios/TPs no problem on the website, but there's no method to claim the missing bonus TPs obviously and I assume they won't post automatically at this stage for the other 2 pax.
#2351




Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: UK, TX, UAE
Programs: BA GGL, BA Amex Prem, Amex Plat, Hilton Diamond, Mucci
Posts: 6,447
Is the email address mentioned upthread the best way to retroclaim the bonus TPs ? ... the live chat on the website used to be great but has become fairly useless now as the AI hasn't very much 'I' at all and it's hard to get put through to a human.
Travelled recently with family and 2 of our TPs and bonuses posted fine after a week or so .. but for the other 2 nothing at all posted .. I retroclaimed the basic Avios/TPs no problem on the website, but there's no method to claim the missing bonus TPs obviously and I assume they won't post automatically at this stage for the other 2 pax.
Travelled recently with family and 2 of our TPs and bonuses posted fine after a week or so .. but for the other 2 nothing at all posted .. I retroclaimed the basic Avios/TPs no problem on the website, but there's no method to claim the missing bonus TPs obviously and I assume they won't post automatically at this stage for the other 2 pax.
#2352




Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: London & Orlando
Programs: BA Gold, HH Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 553
For reference on bonus points posting, I took a domestic BAH itinerary (JER) and in the middle of this trip I took an international BAH ex JER. International itinerary completed on 07 Nov and all bonus points posted on 13th (360 points). Domestic itinerary completed a day later 08 Nov and bonus points posted today 14th Nov (80 points).
So 6/7 days for bonus points of both UK and International BAH to post.
As I was mixed up in all the chaos with fog last week in JER I was expecting this to go all wrong as I arrived in JER on the return of my International itinerary 2 days late, but all perfect, well done BAH.
So 6/7 days for bonus points of both UK and International BAH to post.
As I was mixed up in all the chaos with fog last week in JER I was expecting this to go all wrong as I arrived in JER on the return of my International itinerary 2 days late, but all perfect, well done BAH.
#2353


Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: BER
Programs: BA GfL, Hilton Diamond, M&M Sen
Posts: 2,111
The booking must be made by a UK resident and must originate and end in the UK.
that Part is still in the rules.
i complained about it several times with GGL. (Along with some other topics / issues
Despite the constant promises to forward it to the relevant team, I didnt get an answer about it.
well. It is what it is :/
that Part is still in the rules.
i complained about it several times with GGL. (Along with some other topics / issues
Despite the constant promises to forward it to the relevant team, I didnt get an answer about it.
well. It is what it is :/
#2355




Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: UK, TX, UAE
Programs: BA GGL, BA Amex Prem, Amex Plat, Hilton Diamond, Mucci
Posts: 6,447
Not sure that you would be able to do anything to maximise TPs as you have to end in the UK or risk making the whole trip ineligible so realistically no more than the 40TPs for a connection + bonus available I think.


