coastieexpat

I just received this notice from BA. regarding new silver status benefits and their new partnership with American Airlines. Looks pretty good, although I personally don't fly within the US too much.......



At British Airways, we are committed to finding ways of improving the Executive Club. So we are delighted to announce a wide range of new benefits that we hope will make your Silver membership more rewarding than ever.

Quadruple BA Miles

To start with, we're increasing your Silver Tier mileage bonuses. Instead of 25%, you will now receive a bonus equal to 100% of the mileage flown. For example, while your recent trip earned you 8038 BA Miles including the bonus, the next time it will be worth 12058.

We've also increased the BA Miles you'll earn flying Discount Economy. Quadrupled them, to be precise. So again, you will now earn 100% of the mileage flown. You will also earn double the Tier Points when flying on a Discount Economy fare.

And it gets better.

More BA Miles with our partners

oneworld® has gotten better for Executive Club members thanks to our transatlantic joint business with American Airlines and Iberia.

It means you can now fly transatlantic with American Airlines and either earn or redeem BA Miles. And wherever you fly with American Airlines, anywhere in their network, you'll now earn 100% of the mileage flown in Discount Economy, just as if you were flying with us.

Not only will you earn faster reward travel to over 600 British Airways and partner destinations worldwide, you'll also benefit from our new coordinated flight schedules, adjusted to fit in with yours.

And finally, if you book with British Airways, you can use your BA Miles to upgrade from full fares on either American Airlines or Iberia.

We say 'finally', but rest assured our commitment to making the Executive Club better is ongoing.

In the meantime, we hope you'll have an opportunity to enjoy some of these exciting new rewards and benefits very soon.

Yorkieabroad

You just know that was written in one of their "joint business" partners !!

TimFountain

American Airlines - Joined in March of 1989 and last 3 years I've been Executive Platinum (>100K miles per year). Admirals Club Membership.

Lifetime miles 2,324,486 and over 400K miles "in the bank". Lifetime Advantage Platinum at 2MM. Already are 56K miles this year and in denger of dropping to Platinum (oh no!).

I have flown over 100 trips across the pond, 15 trans-pac's and 5 south american trips. All the miles are flown miles, not credit card or other gray miles! Also my current company only pays cheapest coach, so a lot of those miles are in the back of the bus (of course EXP does get you 8 SWU's).

- Tim

IPM

IMO, Virgin Upper Class is by far a superior product to Club World on transatlantic routes. I still maintain tier status with BA as its useful for AA, but otherwise its Emirates or Sing if going anywhere else

Englishmum

What does that mean in plain English?

Ex-platinum does get you 8 ??Upgrades...?

digbydog

SWU means system wide upgrades which are given to top tier flyers

A very nice perk especially if you fly long haul. I just received 4 SWU from Continental which makes my 15 hour non stop flights to Hong Kong from Newark very comfortable at a cheap price

For the record I am BA Gold and CO Platinum which means I spend way too much time in the sky.....

Englishmum

Are you moving back to Singapore or just visiting?

Yeah, the same thing with Solitaire happened to my spouse too....he's currently PPS Krisflyer but it doesn't get him much in the way of benefits (ok...there is a special PPS only lounge at Changi airport) but he never gets an upgrade...although he did last week on Swiss on their short hop between Zurich and London - and he almost never flies Swiss..

There is a lot of discontent with Singapore Airlines FF's on the ExpatSingapore and by some posters on the Flyertalk SQ boards....it seems that service quality is declining and the airline isn't providing superior quality compared to the competition charging much lower prices (especially the Middle Eastern carriers):

http://www.expatsingapore.com/forum/...c,64536.0.html

Englishmum

Aha! I remember you now....you managed to rent a property in Millburn via a link I'd sent to you ...

(I can't afford the non-stop EWR-SIN business class aircraft only fares as paying out of own pocket and have to schlep to JFK....)

Yorkieabroad

Thats a shame (about the service) - they always used to be awesome, but like I say, I haven't flown them for 5 years or so.

We're just going to visit next year. My eldest son was born there, and we left when he was 18 months old so he has no memories whatsoever. We always said we would take him back when he would be old enough for it to mean something - he hits 10 next year, so we decided to do it then. We're going to take advantage of the long summer here, and do a SEAsia tour of a few of the old haunts...rather looking forward to it!! I haven't been back since '05 and it had changed a lot then, so I'm not really expecting to recognise it when we get there!!

Kaffy Mintcake

They do! There's one gift shop that sells ... wait for it ...

CHEESE! (and Packers gear)

Gig was able to be completed routinely and is done now. I just have one schmoozing trip left ... I can handle chatting with client and eating Italian food.