I am interested in BA’s choices with their bonus TPs for post-April 25. It seems to me the sweet-spot is CE sectors in terms of the ratio of eligible spend to total earned TPs. EDI-LHR-DUB return is available from £400 on certain dates at the moment (no sales) which comes in with an eligible spend of c.£300 so around 300 nTPs. You then get 175 bonus nTPs on each CE sector so a total of 700 bonus nTPs. This gives 1,000 nTPs for £400 spend. If you achieved 2,500 nTPs from credit card spend then I imagine it means you could bring your total to 20,000 nTPs and Gold status for around £7,000 spent on 17 of these type of short haul connecting CE trips plus 1 simple £200 CE domestic return. I suppose it could be cheaper if you booked in sales.
To be clear, I think taking 70 short CE sectors to get BA Gold is a terrible, borderline insane, idea and pretty close to hell on earth in my book but if it shows up BA’s incompetence in trying to create a system that will reward only the highest spenders, then fine by me.
To be clear, I think taking 70 short CE sectors to get BA Gold is a terrible, borderline insane, idea and pretty close to hell on earth in my book but if it shows up BA’s incompetence in trying to create a system that will reward only the highest spenders, then fine by me.