You spend an entire year flying and collecting tier points, only to see it all lost when your year resets. It is perhaps the most annoying thing about being a frequent flyer.
Some programmes have a lifetime total available though, so when your anniversary date sets everything to zero, you can still see what you’ve done. That reduces the pain, but only by a little bit.
I Hate Year Resets!
Well, hate is probably too strong a word, but it makes me wrinkle my nose in distaste. Perhaps I just like seeing a nice big juicy total in my app and online, as opposed to a zero. You’ve probably guessed by now that my anniversary date just passed in the British Airways Executive Club.
Overall Thoughts
This year it is particularly noticeable for me, because all my upcoming flights are using points. That means I expect to accrue something like 70 tier points out of the 1,500 I will need to retain Gold status next year.
Luckily the British Airways Executive Club has a soft landing, meaning rather than flying down to lowly Blue, I will only drop one level to Silver. From there, the race will be on yet again. Or will it? We shall see what happens.
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For us lesser mortals, who are not high fliers, it would be so helpful, for our loyalty, nevertheless to only have knocked off, at the start of each year, the number required to achieve the required minimum amount that would achieve our new year status.
Any residual balance would become a deposit on next year’s status. After all we have earned it.
You make a good point there, that would be ideal. I always overshoot the tally by a little bit (I try not to, because it’s just a waste) so having that move to the next year would be really excellent. Nice idea there!
Just a thought here but I really love the milestone awards that Hyatt offers. Despite the mentality of IAG management I think that a similar move would greatly incentivize business. For that matter, even AA does something similar. Can you imagine how much extra business BA would generate if they offered, say, to remove YQ from a single award trip for 1-2 people in any class after earning 100,000 Avios in a calendar year? The response and engagement would be tremendous.
That’s a good point, it certainly would incentivise people to reach the goals faster. Not to mention save a wad of cash!