260 Tier Points Needed

Hi

After some help please I need to get 260 Tier points to reach Gold Status with BA, what would the most cost effective way of doing this be? Ideally involving a very short midweek trip or two, before the 2nd week in October?

Thanks for your help

Or perhaps a business class bargain to South Africa or Hong Kong booked ex Oslo or Milan?

DME, CAI, BEY and HEL are good for TPs, and not far away, but not cheap – fine if you have £2k each to sink on midweek J tickets. For cost effective, but more of a time sink, you’d have to go further – e.g. I’ve just done DXB in J ex-Italy for just over £1k – yielding 360 TPs and more than enough Avios to cover the positioning flight. But it does mean an extra day to position in LIN (or AMS/BRU/LUX, etc) at the start of your journey…

Is it really worth spending that much just for status?

Thanks for your replies, very helpful

Yeah I know what you mean with regards to cost, I fly most weeks with work & wanted to see if there was much of difference with upgrades being Gold instead of Silver, my flights are always booked for me direct & economy if BA don’t fly direct I fly another airline, had I thought I could have easily split my journeys to reach gold. Haven’t looked into it before now. Often I fly back straight after work so a bed or even a bit more room premium is much appreciated, am really grateful for the upgrades I currently receive but surely would be more frequent with gold status.

Having been mostly blue, once upon a time Silver, and now inherited (from bmi) and then renewed Gold, and I can say that it is worth being Gold if you travel frequently and want recognition (more than just lounges and fast track, which you get with Silver). If you’re only 260 points away, and it’s not too much hassle to do it, then I would try

Generally staff will go out of their way for you more as Gold. I’ve had a couple of welcome (but unexpected) upgrades, including one as I boarded the plane on Monday from a purser who recognised me from the previous day and said I was welcome to sit anywhere there was a spare seat in club!

The other big advantage for me is seat pre-selection – you always get first dibs of the good seats, which I never got a shot at as a silver or blue, no matter how “full fare” my ticket was, nor how big a corporate customer my company is (clue: top 10 globally)

CityProfessional

I am BA silver and I can choose my seats for free when booking so there is no difference with Gold in this respect.