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Has your British Airways Executive Club status been upgraded or extended today?

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As promised last week, British Airways has processed (or is at least in the middle of processing) the final batch of status upgrades and extensions today.

British Airways implemented status extensions for the majority of British Airways Executive Club members last week.

However, there were two scenarios under which you wouldn’t have been done before today.

My british airways executive account status has not been extended

If your Executive Club year-end was 8th May or 8th June:

If you have an expiry date of 8th May or 8th June, your status had not yet changed.

There is a reason for this.  If you had an 8th May or 8th June expiry date, your membership card was still valid and ran until 30th June or 31st July respectively.

If your status was due to be upgraded with reduced tier points:

British Airways has applied the new, lower, tier point thresholds today.  As a reminder, these are:

Bronze status – 225 tier points (was 300 points) 

Silver status – 450 tier points (was 600 tier points)

Gold status – 1,125 tier points (was 1,500 tier points)

If you qualify by segments flown, these targets have also been reduced by 25%.

If you have reached this number of points, check your British Airways account.  It should have been upgraded.

You should also see that the number of points you need for promotion is reduced.

Hopefully everyone who was due an extension or promotion has now received it.

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Comments (105)

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  • tical says:
    29 Jun29 June 14:56

    re-qualified for Gold in June 2020 and now extended until July 2022

  • Stu N says:
    29 Jun29 June 14:57

    Updated for me as well. I had an 8 May year end and retained Gold on reduced TPs so overall a good result. Card expires 30-6-2022 – we just need some sort of resumption of flying to get any benefits.

    London next month should be fine. Madrid in October, I’d say is 80-20, Miami in November <25% chance of happening.

  • AMF says:
    29 Jun29 June 15:11

    Hi Rob – I can be nominated for a Silver membership by a GGL member anytime

    My TP year renews in July – when should I pull the trigger to make the most of it?

    I’m guessing anytime after the TP renewal would give me around 23 months?

    Thanks in advance!

    • Rob says:
      29 Jun29 June 15:45

      NO, absolutely not.

      Due to the weird way BA runs their IT, you don’t want to upgrade until your current card year ends. In your case, this means 1st September.

      If you do it 30th August (ie old card year), you only get a year. Do it 1 September and you get 22 months, plus the 2-month stub in both cases. It is an IT error that you only get a year, and it can be fixed if you’re willing to spend hours on the phone to BA, but for an easy life wait until 1st September.

      • AMF says:
        30 Jun30 June 09:32

        Can’t thank you enough for this advice Rob – 1st of September it is!

  • mark says:
    29 Jun29 June 15:23

    requalified Fed 20, and had renewal year end June 21 and now been extended to June 22.

    – initial comms from BA was “you don’t qualify
    – pushed back, they said “oh yes we were wrong, you do, but we won’t apply the extension until June 21
    – they’ve applied it now

    All over the place – but at least this time it’s worked in my favour!

  • Rob says:
    29 Jun29 June 15:49

    Odd. Done 4 BA cash flights this year?

    • Rob says:
      29 Jun29 June 17:04

      We are guessing so, yes. It would be very odd if you went from having a Sivler with 2022 expiry to a Gold with 2021 expiry.

  • keith says:
    29 Jun29 June 15:59

    bit wonky still… showing me still as bronze level member at top of account with 525 tier points and collection ending 8 sept 2020.. but under progress to next level as having achieved silver.. guess the IT will catchup with itself in a bit

  • Hamza says:
    29 Jun29 June 16:03

    Mine is still showing Bronze on the phone app. When I check on the web, it still shows Bronze but further down it says you have achieved Silver. My phone app also shows 3/4 flights done although I have actually taken 8/50 so I am assuming by the end of the day it will settle down.

    • Rhys says:
      29 Jun29 June 16:18

      Give it a few days to let BA’s IT catch up!

      • Stuart says:
        29 Jun29 June 16:28

        My year end is March 2021. I have flown one round trip F class to the US so only 2 of the 4 flights needed.
        My account still shows my year end as March 2021 and reduced points of 1,1125 needed to maintain Gold.
        Will this change to give me an extra year, or is it waiting for me to fly another 2 segments? or do I miss out?

        • mark says:
          29 Jun29 June 18:03

          your year end will remain March 2021 – what does it say in your account about your “card expiry date” – should be 2022…

  • Geoff says:
    29 Jun29 June 18:13

    Rob, do we expect upgrades to GGL as well at a reduced threshold?

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