............she back to blue now that is a waste of time!
All the benefits mentioned are not the most important benefit of the Frequent Flyer schemes - and even the lowly blue card has one tremendous advantage!
Priority over other pax when it comes to "bumping"!
Just supposing we have weight restrictions enforced on a particular flight, and we are not able to use all of the available seats (as we did a few years ago at Gatwick when a charter aircraft slid off the runway and we had to use the short emergency runway as an alternative for a few hours!) How do we then decide which pax are going to travel and which will be left behind??? At BA the rough pecking-order would be as follows (there are some other categories too but for simplicity these have been omitted):
1. Vulnerable passengers (disabled, elderly, unaccompanied children).
2. Service personnel or Merchant seamen with imminent movement orders etc (ie where missing the flight would either delay the sailing orders of a ship or render it impossible for personnel to catch up with their onward transport)
3. Frequent Cardholders in the following order 1. Premier 2.Gold or One World Emerald 3.Silver or One World Sapphire 4. One World Ruby 5. Blue
Lastly, other passengers are onloaded in the order in which they completed check-in.
So, even the humble Blue card gives a higher priority than nothing! (This same rough sort of priorities table is used when it comes to the order in which we disperse passengers from a cancelled or severely delayed flight too!)