British Airways Executive Club > Reviews

Advantages: Flown several times free, or up-graded.
Disadvantages: Dates are difficult to come by.

...went back to England, on British Airways, I decided to sign up for their frequent flyer miles. I figured I would be visiting family at least once a year, so I might as well reap the benefits. Both Len and I have the Blue Executive card. That is the bottom of the range, and I feel after 15 trips with them, that it is all that we will achieve. I assume business flyers obtain the Silver and Gold status. Basically it is the fare class that gives you ... Read review

Advantages: Accumulate lots of miles
Disadvantages: Don't get a household account and try and spend them

BA Miles Household account is the biggest pain out. I thought it would be a good idea to merge my BA miles with my husbands so we signed up for the Household account. All was fine until I went to book tickets and then found out we can only get tickets for myself and my husband as the 2 members of the account. I didn't add the kids as they don't hold BA executive cards and there didn't seem any point in them having one either. But apparently ... Read review

Advantages: Points make prizes! (Well, flights actually)
Disadvantages: Economy flights don't give as many points as you'd hope

I joined the BA Exec club when my company relocated to Scotland - so I was flying up and down every week. (They don't called it the "red eye" for nothing.....) As the company were paying and it was Business class, the points really built up. I had plenty of free flights over the next couple of years. Two free flights to Israel and lots of personal trips London to Edinburgh, plus a few to Dublin. I soon became a "Silver" member, which gives you ... Read review

Advantages: Free Flights, Easy to use, Good support
Disadvantages: Too few Miles for Economy, Too Hard to Reach Next Tier Status

Brilliant. Stay loyal and you will be rewarded! I have flown with BA about 10 times usually the London to Johannesburg route and mostly flying in Premier economy which is roughly £1000 a time. I also use the BA AMEX card that helps me collect miles. I have just reached the critical 100,000 air miles that has enabled me to book a return business class flight from London to Joburg, which would have cost me £3500. Ok so I had to pay the tax, which was ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent service and a recognition of the number of times you fly if it is business
Disadvantages: not good for the economy traveller

Okay so I am particularly sad - accrued over 1,000,000 BA miles in only 2.0 years, got my Gold card in just 5 months! I also have flight attendant girlfirend so I guess you could say I have some experince(!) with comercial airline travel. So BA does offer a lot to the BUSINESS traveller including being top of the list for upgrades if you have the Gold (Emmerald Card in "oneworld" speak). Sure you get to go into First lounges etc but the real difference ... Read review

Advantages: Only for corporate fat cats in 1st
Disadvantages: No air miles, only airplane tickets, increased travel needed for short haul

BA have just announced changes to their executive club reward scheme. Alledgedly a fairer system it gives miles according to distance flown rather than the quantised system that existed before, which was heanily weighted in favour of UK-USA flights. Unfortunately the new system replaces the existing air miles one (which continues in parallel)and can only be used to redeem for flights. It also ends up 'costing' more for those short hauls flights to ... Read review

Advantages: lounge access for Silver & Gold
Disadvantages: took a lot to get out of Blue

This whole fiasco of abandoning Air Miles in favour of BA miles is a joke. What I'm currently whinging about is the fact that it doesn't seem to matter how far I fly, I can't seem to get my membership upgraded to Silver status. According to the web site I actually have enough *miles* to get to Australia! I don't actually believe that ('cos I do quite a lot of flying to the states - although I'm not sure that ) but I still don't have enough *points* ... Read review

Advantages: miles dont expire
Disadvantages: cards expire and its difficult to step up to silver and gold

I found B.A. executive club one of the better frequeny flyer programmes in some ways. At least your miles accrued do not expire if unused like some other programmes. They do seem to move the goalposts around nowadays, but that is only to be expected. Especially this new points scheme. I have used the airmiles to allow my wife to join me in some parts of Europe when I have been working. The one thing that does irritate me though is nearly every ... Read review

Advantages: 50% miles on cheapest economy seats
Disadvantages: More harder to qualify for a free ticket than before.

Hi all, The latest news and gossip on how to make the most of your B.A miles now in. If you have a family of at most 3 others you can batch their points together to get your reward. This works well because lots of times they have special giveaways which you can collect on members of your family and use these towards your own rewards. A good example is the offer of 250 miles for your first use of a B.T calling card Get the whole family a card ... Read review

Advantages: Good lounge at Heathrow
Disadvantages: No real benefits for Economy class passengers

The BA system gives you two sorts of points for each flight - "miles" which can be coverted into free flights and "tier" points which are used to move you up to a higher level. The levels start at Blue then go through Silver to Gold. Each year you have to get enough tier points to maintain your level or you drop back one level. The Blue level has no advantages other than you can save up points for free flights, while the Silver and Gold levels allow, ... Read review

Advantages: Consitantly the best,
Disadvantages: Can't think of any

Having flown regularly for work in recent years I have been lucky enough to fly many ailines or in some cases UNLUCKY. My resounding conclusion is that BA are the best and offer by far the best frequent flyer program. Why? Firstly service is always consistant, and they look after you if you are an Exec member, especialy when you get to Silver and above. I always book either economy or Premier and am always (touch wood) upgraded to at least Business. ... Read review

Advantages: Free flights, upgrades, use of loungers
Disadvantages: None

...can be found on the British Airways web site. The entry level is blue and if you travel on enought flights in a calender year you can progress to silver and then onto Gold. You can also earn these miles on partner airlines such as Quantas. ... Read review