British Airways also introducing lifetime Executive Club Gold Guest List status

Updated: September 10, 2013

Published: September 10, 2013

Yesterday I shared the news that British Airways is introducing lifetime Gold status in the Executive Club program. Lifetime Gold status requires 35,000 Tier Points. Ordinarily you need 1,500 Tier Points to qualify for Gold status, so in other words it takes ~23 years of qualifying for Gold status to earn lifetime Gold.

What I missed is that British Airways is also introducing Gold Guest List status for life. For those of you not familiar with Gold Guest List, it required 3,000 Tier Points per year, so double as many as Gold status.

Anyway, British Airways is offering Gold Guest List status upon earning 100,000 lifetime Tier Points. That’s the equivalent of 34 years of Gold Guest List status. I think this may just be the highest threshold for lifetime status I’ve seen in any program…

I have to wonder if anyone in the Executive Club program is even close to having reached that threshold.

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Karl Guest

November 17, 2013, 4:33 am

Dont you get a complementary Silver Status Card for a friend of yours with Lifetime Gold too? If you dont have anyone - I'd volunteer for it!

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Colin Litten-Brown Guest

October 4, 2013, 6:07 am

I have been a member since 1993 but BA only have me down as a member since Sept 2000. Hardly what I call rewarding me for a "lifetime" of membership. Am trying to find out why from customer services but they are being evasive and generally completely unsympathetic. It would be interesting to see how many others are being hacked off by the inappropriately-named "lifetime" tier points as it does not reflect the lifetime of loyalty to BA.

Michael Guest

September 15, 2013, 1:53 pm

I have 37500 tier points and qualified for lifetime gold. I used to have the Concorde Card which I got for flying Concorde frequently but they confiscated it when they introduced the 5000 to per annum. It only gives access to 2 lounges in the world which I get into anyway, so what's the point. The idea of taking away hard earned rewards is more than irksome.

andreas Guest

September 13, 2013, 12:21 pm

I have reached 65,000 in 21 years and suspect I need another 7 years to get to 100k - If I manage to fly that long - getting tired of it. Concorde Card will be an additional benefit for those at 100k per ba website

Euan Guest

September 12, 2013, 5:26 am

@Mangos - avios are different from tier points. It would be possible to have 1.45million avios without having 35,000 tier points.

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