{"id":163330,"date":"2025-01-02T02:25:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T16:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/british-airways-loyalty-revamp-critism-customers-staff\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T02:25:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T16:25:42","slug":"british-airways-loyalty-program-revamp-draws-criticism-from-customers-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=163330","title":{"rendered":"British Airways&#8217; Loyalty Program Revamp Draws Criticism From Customers &amp; Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With news emerging this week that             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"77388\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/british-airways\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ba-icon.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>British Airways<\/a><\/span> has made sweeping changes to its frequent flier program starting next year, many of its customers have been left upset at what they feel are unfair status thresholds. The carrier is shifting to a revenue-based tier system from April 1st, 2025, with its Executive Club renamed to The British Airways Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disgruntled loyalty members claim they will have to spend far more to retain their status tier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1513,634,1091],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-british-airways","category-frequent-flyer","category-loyalty"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163331,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163330\/revisions\/163331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}