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Hi,
I have 98,500 BA tier points and am Lifetime Gold. Suggestions gratefully received for the most cost-effective way to get to 100,000 TP for Lifetime GGL.
Thanks.Not sure what your circumstances are (location and budget), but personal view is that you might need to combine several elements.
If you are UK based and able to do some travelling before 1st April, it would be worth some short trips to/from some of the 80TP European destinations. If you tack on connecting flights from some of the UK airports where back-to-backs are most likely to work (NCL and GLA would be my votes) you can quite easily generate 240 current TPs – plus another 80 if you need positioning flights as well. NCL-OTP returns are circa £550 in early March, add a LHR/NCL return and you are looking at around £750 for 320TPs – so around £2.35 per TP.
One other good option would be to get on the QR website and look at business returns to somewhere warm. For example, if you are prepared to start in some European cities such as Rome or Oslo, not too difficult to get returns to Bankgkok or Columbo for €2,000 or less. Would earn 560TPs at around £3 per TP – so more expensive, but possibly more enjoyable.
Third strand might have to be a BA Holiday booked for after April. Providing you are OK booking alone, you can generate a decent number of TPs providing you use decent hotels. If you were able to do two of the trips to OTP (or similar) and one to BKK (or similar) that should generate 1,200 of the 1,500 gap. So the post-April holiday would need a spend of about £4k – slightly less with the new bonus TPs announced today.
Thanks for the suggestions.
I am based near LHR so start my journeys there. Just done QR flights – LHR to Doha to Islamabad (work, not pleasure) and oddly BA TPs have appeared for three of the four flights, missing LHR to Doha. Claim form submitted as I don’t want to miss any TPs.
Thought about holiday post April but doubt going alone would run well.
One thing that I haven’t seen is if the threshold for GGL for life will change.Thanks for the suggestions.
I am based near LHR so start my journeys there. Just done QR flights – LHR to Doha to Islamabad (work, not pleasure) and oddly BA TPs have appeared for three of the four flights, missing LHR to Doha. Claim form submitted as I don’t want to miss any TPs.
Thought about holiday post April but doubt going alone would run well.
One thing that I haven’t seen is if the threshold for GGL for life will change.Under the new scheme, I think GGLfL is 1.5 million nTP.
Assuming pro-rata oTP to nTP, with 98,500 oTP you’d be over 20,000 nTP short, i.e. over 20k non-tax spend. But I’ve also seen a higher transfer rate reported that would nudge you over the threshold.
Probably best to post on the FT GGL thread as there’ll probably be others there who already found/checked the answer.
As you’re close to GGLfL your Tier Points will be multiplied by 15 when it changes, towards the new target.
If you don’t have Gold For Life then your lifetime TP will be multiplied by 15.71.Cheapest way will be to get the missing TPs before the end of March, and it obviously depends how much time you can be away and/or how much you need to work, and where from. I would definitely want to be getting those TPs under the current system for cost and before they move the goalposts yet again.
1. You could do a 5-night BA holiday to, say, Bucharest (OTP), which will earn double TPs, and then do 4 x return trips to UK each day between night one and night 5. That would get you 320 from the BAH and 640 from the day returns – and about 6 hours+ each day to work from the T3 lounge of your choice.
2. If you really want to go for it, and spend most of the time flying, you could do the BAH from a regional airport, for 480 TPS, and make the daily returns to somewhere like GLA (with a back-to-back at GLA) which would get you 960 from the returns – 1440 total. Add some positioning to/from your choice of start point and you’d be almost there.
3. Or, less frenetically, you could book several week-long (6-nights) BAHs to OTP, eg: departing Sunday and returning Saturday, and nest in a return from OTP leaving Monday morning and returning Friday afternoon. Then you could have most of the working week in London for 480 TPs per week.
Thanks for all the helpful suggestions. Looking at my schedule for the rest of February and March, it is hard to see that I can spend much time in airports and in planes. My TP balance should edge up a bit as I have done LHR to Islamabad via Doha and back (Club), plus LHR to IAD last week in CW with paid upgrade to 1st on return. I have been thinking about purchasing TPs post April since once in GGL fl, the permanent benefits for family might be a better investment than spending more of my life flying for TPs.
That should be, if I’ve calculated it correctly, 910 TP. Which based on your 98,500 TP lifetime balance mean you now have 99,410.
That is 590 TP to gain before the end of March to reach 100,000 lifetime TP’s.
Do you have any other flights on One World airlines between now and the end of March?
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