How To Get British Airways Gold Status (and how much it ACTUALLY costs!)

How can you get British Airways Executive Club Gold Status (Oneworld Emerald)? And how much does it cost to get all of the tier points need for Gold status? In this video I’m covering all the flights I took to earn gold status and how much I spent, as well as giving a few tips on how you can earn more tier points for less.

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[sirjesteruk]

Great video, thanks for the transparency. There are a lot of people who get vexed when you don’t get close to the (arbitrary) £2 per TP number. I enjoy travelling and similar to you, take flights at short notice to accommodate work commitments. I generally use taxis / Uber / Grab in other countries instead of the train or public transport.

I enjoy your vids for the normality of something which is relatable to me. I paid £1100 for the AUH-CMB-CGK run instead of £800 because the timings I chose worked better for me. I stayed a few days in each place and enjoyed expensive hotels so I could enjoy myself.

Chasing status is one thing, but for me, enjoying the occasional is far more important - and that doesn’t always come in at £2 per TP!

[alanmurray]

Thanks Charles, love this video which highlights your journey to gold. I subscribe to a lot of channels here where tier points are cheaper but they’re all generally speaking retired, on gap years or full time on the tube. Appreciate your content on how a working couple go about it and looking forward to more in your future travels

[aol]

Really nice video Charles, I also went for a few BA 5 night holiday packages, bumps the tier points up nicely but gets me to silver. I did look at trying to get to gold but it's miles away for me, if I do a business trip to the US and add in the min 5 nights hotel, I'll see what that brings me. On the lounges, I find the T5 north and south lounges terrible, they are so busy, really difficult to get a (clean) seat and table and I don't think its fit for purpose. For me, lounge access is no longer the luxury it used to be and actually should be. I have been in every time of the day and it's always mobbed. The T5 south lounge was so busy one time, they let us into the first class one downstairs!

[madds]

Congratulations, I earned gold for the first time last year sadly haven’t had a chance yet to use it 😕 but with a short trip to Dublin later this month we’ll get to experience the gold check in & 1st lounge @T5 🙂. Bagged ourselves 1st class for a couple of hundred more than business to JFK in march (£1100 e/w instead of £8k e/w🤪) adding 5 nights for the double bubble holiday promotion gets us 840 points 🙂 not the cheapest way of a tier point run I know & looking to book a sectored premium economy leg to USA this November which will give us enough for gold renewal by April next year. Wishing you luck with your channel hope it grows large enough to earn something from it, enjoy your future travels 👍🏻

[well-blazeredman]

Good video. I've decided not to chase status. It might come - I have four BA flights booked and might do another trip - but I will only do trips I want to do, and will only book with BA when they are the best option. Lounges? I can buy access when I need it. Avios collection? I'm getting better at that.

[filecore]

Thanks for the video! One for the future vids, would liked to have seen the overall figures/totals appear on the screen near the end. Thanks!

[RandomLifeProductions]

Loving the double tier points….. I’ve done couple of trips to Malta to Corfu. Then a few runs to Edinburgh to stay with my friend… Plus a USA trip…. Not to bad all told about 4000 poimds

[iainmacinnes]

Great summary - enjoy the benefits of Gold. How long will you have Gold status with all the tier point year changes - any thoughts about renewal…?😂😂😂

[MrStuartAllan]

Great video Charles. I agree with you and the comment below. Chasing Tier Points is ok but it is more important to enjoy the trip. If that means you are paying more than the optimal £ per TP then fair enough. My goal is Silver but that wont happen this membership year, it will be Bronze for me this year.

[ukdavepianoman]

I reached Gold this year for no other reason than I wanted to see what it was like (having reached Silver very easily). W.r.t. benefits - the main one is OneWorld First class lounges (although the LHR T5 First lounge is somewhat disappointing). I have 2 years or so to see whether Gold is really worith it.
The point about the £2/TP is it's an approximate minimum (post Covid) - so it is possible to get to Gold spending £3K. I booked double TP deals in Club Europe which were around this minimum - but I've also booked flights that were much higher than the minimum because they were trips I had planned anyway. Car hire can give double TPs for very little extra spend. What £/TP people achieve is really a personal choice.

[littleman]

Enjoyable vid and well-structured.
One bit of feedback: the automatic camera tracking is a bit distracting/dizzying

[greggbrian]

Thanks for this Im at silver which is good, may get to Gold but I'm not pushing it. Newcastle is the best uk regional airport I use ti whenever I go north.

[clsiow]

Very interesting. I am almost at gold and like you I am getting there simply by enjoying holidays rather than tp runs. However, I have found it impossible to get anywhere near £2/tp even when trying to get the best deal.
I would be fascinated about how you booked all your upcoming Avios flights.Again I have found very little availability when I have searched for reward flights and so I would love to learn how you did it.

[nokturnna]

Going to be honest... I can't stop watching this videos but I don't think I will ever become Gold. Although I fly every month to Portugal I always fly the cheapest of the cheapest of Economy. Lol I think BA should decrease the number of legs for each tier. Those who are actually frequent flyers end up being left behind for some people flying long haul Business Class. 😢😢

[richardtalbot]

i have always wondered why when I am paying for my seat selection in Club I can't book the front row or the bulkhead on Gatwick flights, now I know. It is annoying as I'm 6ft 3in :(

[richardstreet]

Trying to get in the business class lounges at T5 makes it worth going for gold (edit '--so I can enter the First lounge)

[preston]

Welcome to the gold club, you won't want to go back to silver, I know I haven't. Enjoy your benefits