British Airways extends Executive Club elite status by 12 months, reduces tier point targets

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• C says:

  11 Jun11 June 20:51

  Apologies if answered before.
  I’m an existing Gold (8/9/2020 expiry), and had already 1500+ points and therefore had already re-qualified for Gold until 31/10/21. Does this offer extend it by a further year?

  From my reading of the situation I thought perhaps not. But then it would appear the only people that don’t gain much are those that had already re-qualified in their year?

  Thanks in advance.

  • Mike P says:

    11 Jun11 June 21:06

    From everything I’ve read both here and on FT, no, the losers in all this are those who have already re-qualified at their current level in the current year. Sorry it’s not better news.

  • APD says:

    11 Jun11 June 21:08

    See, I read it differently – as a yes- because of this (but I am also confused):

    I gained a new status in my current membership year, so I already have it for next year regardless. Do I get an additional extension?

    Yes.

    For example …. if your year-end is 8th September 2020 and you qualified for Silver status in February 2020, you already have Silver status until 31st October 2021. This will be extended to 31st October 2022.

    However, you would need to earn the FULL 600 tier points between 9th September 2021 and 8th September 2022 to retain your Silver status for 2023. The lower tier point thresholds only apply to membership years which end on or before 8th July 2022.

    • Mike P says:

      11 Jun11 June 21:44

      If you move up a level as in your example then you benefit from a 12 month extension at the new level. If you have already renewed at the level you are currently at and are still in your current membership year (so with a year end from July 8th 2020 onwards) then you don’t benefit. Two different scenarios and two different outcomes.

• APD says:

  11 Jun11 June 21:06

  I got the email but I’m still confused…
  Does everyone get a 12 month extension if tier point collection ends between July-2020 and June 2021?
  My Collection year ends Nov 2020 but my card expiry date is currently 31 Dec 2021.
  Will my collection year end Nov 2021 and card expire 31 Dec 2022?
  (Seems so, from one of your answers – I just don’t benefit from the lower TPs)

  Thanks!

  • Mike P says:

    11 Jun11 June 21:52

    @APD, yes, and then you benefit from the lower TP requirement for the following year too.

    • EJH says:

      11 Jun11 June 21:58

      So you benefit from the lower TP requirement twice over – once in the current / live year (pre-Nov 2020) and the second year (where your status is extended i.e. pre-Nov 2021)?

    • Confused Hopeful says:

      11 Jun11 June 23:05

      Thanks for explaining. So in this example:

      – Collection year resets on 8 Nov
      – Gold card expiry date is already 31 Dec 2021 thanks to a step from silver to gold from a collection of 1500 points between 9 Nov 2019 and 29 Feb 2020
      – BA grants a 12 month extension, so gold card now expiring 31 Dec 2022?
      – To maintain Gold for 1 Jan 2023 onward 1125TPs need to be collected between 8 Nov 2020 and 7 Nov 2021?

• George K says:

  11 Jun11 June 21:16

  Friend has a May tier expiry date and would had seen his status drop to Bronze as he failed to requalify for this year. However BA extended his status for another year on the basis that his cancelled flights would had led to requalification, so he’s still Silver till 2021.

  He was asking whether that means he’d be getting another year on top with today’s developments, and I have to admit… I don’t know!

  • Mike P says:

    11 Jun11 June 21:17

    The information available tends to suggest he gets lucky and will receive the benefit of reduced Tier Points plus the extension announced today

• John says:

  11 Jun11 June 21:33

  The email was a bit misleading. I am already silver to Dec 2021 because I got the new parent tier extension in Nov 2019. The email says that I will get an extra 12 months (I guess it’s just a generic email), but according to the article I won’t – because it is treated as though I requalified in the current year despite the fact that I didn’t actually requalify. The last time I flew BA was in August 2019

  • Rhys says:

    12 Jun12 June 08:30

    My understanding is it will be extended until 2022.

• ChrisBCN says:

  11 Jun11 June 21:44

  I could never understand the logic for you to keep saying BA ‘will need to restrict airport lounge numbers’.

  But good they finally moved on this.

  • Doug M says:

    11 Jun11 June 22:14

    Rob was basing that on social distancing. But the overall travel experience will make that lounge time the least of the distancing problems. Unless passenger numbers are cut but 50% or more social distancing at an airport is a nonsense. Airlines will have us believe those sorts of passenger number cuts are unsustainable economically. Ignoring the lounge, T5 for much of a previous normal day was rammed, the only real space being either end where it was quieter, and in the most expensive shops, who’s assistants don’t seem to appreciate my dress sense.
    I suppose there’s a case that those most likely to fly would disproportionately be status holders, which may make the lounges fuller against the general terminal. Who really knows how this will play out, we’re all making assumptions.

    • marcw says:

      11 Jun11 June 23:17

      Also, lounges will be less crowded regardless… fewer people will be travelling by plane. And that´s a fact.

• Christophe says:

  12 Jun12 June 00:26

  I’m still confused. My situation is:
  – currently GGL
  – August year end
  – 2580 TP
  So with the new rules I will get GGL until August 2021?
  If I were to get to 3000 TP before August of this year, could I get GGL until August 2022? I.e. normal renewal to 2021 and then a one year extension?

• ChrisC says:

  12 Jun12 June 04:35

  They remind me of local papers that do articles on something they have ‘discovered‘ the council is doing as though they have done some in-depth behind the scenes investigation when all they have done is look as the publicly available committee papers.

  • Eugene says:

    12 Jun12 June 08:12

    They’re just following the example of the eye testing, virus testing shower in SW1

  • Rob says:

    12 Jun12 June 09:39

    We were all given the details 24 hours in advance with a time at which we could publish it. Nothing exclusive about it (except for our Q&A bit which BA worked up for us).

• Jonathan C says:

  12 Jun12 June 06:19

  I also find the rules around this misleading, and am hoping someone has the wisdom to help clarify: my points collection year ended on 8th June. BA had already generously agreed to extend my Gold membership to June 2021 even though I had 950 TP’s, on the basis that I missed out on a booked Qatar trip at Easter, which would have earned me 560 TP’s legitimately taking me to the required 1500 TP’s. Yesterday my points balance changed to 0 and my year was extended to June 2021 as expected before I received yesterday’s email. So can I expect now to be extended again to June 2022, on the basis that I received the email yesterday? Any thoughts welcome .. thank you!

  • JRich says:

    12 Jun12 June 10:21

    Yes you should 2 extended to June 2022. Also you should have 25% reduced Tier points for June 2021- June 2022 collection period. I’m in a similar position albeit with April year end. It is a fantastic opportunity if you want to try to reach for GGL / Concorde Room, as you have amble time to plan it.

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