Six Months Until the British Airways Tier Point Overhaul: What You Need to Know!

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1. I am currently fighting BA as they have not awarded me my double tier points for a trip I made in September. My year ran out on Sept 8th, but despite them saying the points would be added back in they haven’t been, and it’s hard work trying to get a resolution

   1. I am still fighting BA since 3.1.24 for Avios and tier points for a return World Traveler Plus return flight on
      18.12.23 booked 24.1.23. I have contacted them regularly each month by phone, complaint, email and letter. I received my first email stating I am out of time to receive the Avios or Tier Points.

   2. I find that Twitter (X) is a good resource for resolving issues such as this. Have you tried there?

2. There is no change to the collection of Tier Points. You will earn the same as always on a BA flight. This is not a great post tbh. It’s a re-hash of previously posted info, and is not that clear IMO.

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      1. The substantive point at the beginning of my post was the reason for posting. The article states in paragraph 1 “The way Tier Points are collected and tracked is about to change!” This is not correct. The way tier points are collected is not about to change.

         1. You’re being pedantic. The way Tier Points are being collected IS changing and that is the end of the discussion.

3. I’m into my short test now, started a couple of weeks ago. Where can I see what my “tier point adjustment” will be? I’d like to know what I should be planning to do, in order to keep my status.

   1. “short year” sorry

   2. To calculate your individual tier point adjustment look at your transaction history from April 1st 2024 and add your tier points awarded from then until your current year end. That will give you a figure. It took about 10 days for my adjustment to appear in my account. All my points were present & correct.

   3. Assuming your year ended 8th October like mine did. I would imagine our adjusted tier points will show in the next couple of days. Keep checking your executive club account where it will show soon. Then you can plan from there.

      1. Thanks Eugene.

      2. My tier point year ended October 8 and got reset down to zero on October 9. Will some of these (April 1 2024 to October 8 2024) be added back as the new membership year is from April 01 to March 31?

         1. I am in the same collection year as you and mine were added today. If you check your account now it should be topped up with your adjusted tier points.

            You then have between now and 31st March 25 to qualify for whatever status you are aiming for. Then from 1st April 25 onwards, it will be your new collection year, along with everyone else.

            1. I ‘m also in the same collection year – they credited 335 points into my account. However, for my recent flight on 7 October LHR to DUB, they put 94 Avios but 0 tier points. I’ve written to them today asking them to credit this as every point for me is needed. I think because it was posted on 10th October, it could have been missed by mistake. The DUB – LHR was correctly credited at 10 TP.

               I’ve just returned from a double tier point trip LHR – BRU – LHR as I included a car, all this for 6 nights. The LHR leg has been credited to me as 5 TP, I”m waiting for the BRU – LHR to be credited. Will they then add the double TP on? Or how is this done?

               And I thought this was an excellent article as I have been struggling to understand it!

            2. Hi Dawn,

               Thanks for your kind words on the article. It’s clear there are a lot of us out there who needs help to fully understand all of this.

               The way Tier Points work is that your flights are usually credited within 3 days of travel. Then once you have completed your last flight, your double Tier Points are usually credited within 14 days.

               Today I had double Tier Points credit just 7 days after returning but I have heard of others waiting months.

4. What is the situation with soft landings? I’m currently Gold and not likely to renew before my current TP collection year ends in January though I may make a concerted effort before 30th April 2025. Assuming I don’t make it, will my soft landing to Silver only apply until the 30th April 2025 or will it apply through the next TP collection year until April 2026? TIA

   1. If you are currently Gold, your very next year should be Silver assuming you don’t qualify for Gold before March.

      What is your current collection year expiry date?

5. Kris’s comment is spot on the headline was alarming and my immediate thought was BA were switching to spend based tier point collection. Anyone who hasnt grasped the changes to tier point collection years at this stage is obviously way behind the curve.

   1. I am certain many people still do not grasp it. As confirmed by the constant comments on the forums and social media. Hence why we thought it would be a good time to publish a summary article.

6. Good reminder article, thanks. On the April-Your Current Anniversary date Adjusted TPs rollover, these are done on the 20th of the month after your anniversary.

   Do I like it or not? At first it seemed an admin hassle for customers for something that benefitted BA and not us, as I didn’t see any benefit for us other than the “nice to have” benefit of all our family BAEC dates aligning, but that was no great issue anyway. If it seems that Amex and other partners will find it easier and therefore more attractive to do TP promotions as a result of this expiry dates alignment, however, then I’m all in… except for the price spike possibly for the March TP runs ofc 🙂
   I was very fortunate to do a BA Holidays Double TPs trip with Qatar Airways to KL thru Doha in early April this year, so benefitted from 8 x 140TPs, which rolled over as part of the TP Adjustment into my new year starting 8Aug. I can see if I had done that in March I would have felt annoyed.

   1. Thanks for your kind comment, Martin.

      My year ended 8th of October and as of 11am this morning my adjusted tier points were still not there. Your comment made me check again and sure enough 900 tier points have arrived! It may be the closest working day to the 20th.

      Great work with the Qatar flights. That sounds like a great trip (especially the Tier Points earned)

7. My objection is that as a February member, although I have already retained my Gold status for 2024-25, which will now last until 31 Mar 26, any Tier Points earned between 09 Feb and 31 Mar 25 will effectively be wasted. Although we are assured that any ‘status’ earned in that 7-week year (!) will be recognised, as I have already retained Gold and can hardly get from a standing start to Gold Guest List in 7 weeks then that is why earned Tier Points will be of no value. I’ve already booked two Reward flights in this period and a trip with Star Alliance, but I would have preferred to be earning Tier Points that would be useful.

8. As far as I can see, other than the collection year being made standard for everyone, this has the bonus for BA of forcing people, keen to maintain their status (and thus likely to take a tier point run) to do this in the off-peak period of January to March each year, thereby increasing the posteriors on seats at a relatively low demand part of the year and flattening out the demand cycle. I will hand it to BA that this is quite clever on their part.

   1. I would imagine the proportion of passengers flying to simply keep status is quite small. It would make a difference to BA but probably not too much.

      You are right in another sense though. If everyone trying to achieve status in the first 3 months of the year then we are likely to not see the usual EX-EU prices.

      Those travellers will need to be better prepared and fly earlier on.

9. I’m a bit confused . I actually haven’t yet joined the BA program.
   I was planning my first flight, a return flight leaving on 30 March 2025 and then returning on 16 April.

   Will I have a very short year that starts from the time I take my first flight? (30-31 March 2025)
   And then Tier points from my return flight on 16 April will be count towards the new year?

   Will I still get the benefit of both those flights counting towards my status for the new 2025 year?
   Or will I lose the Tier points from the first flight?

10. I’ve earned 1k Tier points from Dec 23 til Mar 24. I won’t earn those back by end of March 25, I’ll be short by 300 and not planning to do any “tier point run” (waste of money)
    I’m not too worried about losing gold as there’s not a lot of benefits anymore. Specially since I don’t do lounges. BA never upgraded me.

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