BA frequent flyer – how can I fly the 4 qualifying sectors to get silver

Hi,

Appreciate peoples advice. I’ve currently got BA exec membership and recently relocated to Sydney from London. I fly between Sydney and Canbera once per week for work on Qantas so racking up the tier points. I also travelled to HKG recently on Qantas and flying MH back to London via KL in October.

The only trouble is I haven’t flow any actual BA operated flights this exec year. Therefore I won’t be able to get Bronze next month and silver before Christmas even though I will have the tier points.

Any help / advice appreciated

Like 1F I don’t really follow.

Taking the BA flights is part of the qualifying criteria – 2 for bronze and 4 for silver/gold. Therefore I think the only advice people can give is that if you want the status you need to take the flights.

Why not fly back to London in October on BA? Perhaps incorporate a TP run to say Glasgow and back when here.

I am based in Kingston and most of my flights are done with AA to most of my destinations and I rack up tier points and avios on my BAEC! When I fly back to the UK I fly BA as they have a direct flight.

I also travel often to BNE and when I do I try to travel through LHR with MH and gain their OW tier points also, in fact last year I maintained my Gold status with more flights done with partner airlines than done with BA!

So therefore cant you do the same?? I travelled a couple of times with Qantas and got my tier points and avios!

When you are back in London in October, take two return flights on BA, which will make four segments and qualify for the minimum requirement, to destinations which have very low “hand baggage only fares. You could do all four flights in one day, but that would be probably very tiring. Try LGW-AMS £42 o/w; LGW-NCE £35 o/w; LGW-EDI £39 o/w; LHR-DUB £63 o/w; LGW-BCN £59 o/w. You can have a day trip to Cannes, Monaco or Barcelona and enjoy unbeatable weather there in October.

The flights have to be BA flights – you can have no exceptions. You have a pair of BA flights in October — just take a return flight somehwere when you are back in the UK

I meant they have to be BA flight “numbers”

The details of the 4 qualifying flights are described on BA’s page https://www.britishairways.com/en-fi/executive-club/tiers-and-benefits/about-tier-points

To reach Bronze is easy. All you need to do is fly BA at least twice and earn 300 Tier Points or take a total of 25 BA flights. Whichever you do first will get you to Bronze.
For Silver, you need to fly BA at least four times and earn 600 Tier Points or take a total of 50 BA flights.
To get to Gold, you will need to fly BA at least four times and earn 1500 Tier Points.
BA flights are:
flights operated by British Airways, including franchises and BA CityFlyer
codeshare flights on other carriers with a BA flight number
flights operated by Iberia, including franchises, with an IB flight number
Reward flights and agency or industry discounted bookings do not qualify.

What is the tricky part of the question? the four flights must be of the type described above.

The codeshare part is also quite relevant to earning points. I have flown HEL-JFK on AY but because I booked it with a BA flight number, then I earned 4x the points I would have gotten with the same fare/same flight but AY flight number.