Good but require many miles for rewards (BA Miles)

Member Name: James Mitchell

Product:	BA Miles
Date:	29/11/01 (670 review reads)
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Advantages: Check In Options

Disadvantages: Flight Rewards, Hard to move up to next status

I've been a BA exec club member now for almost 12months. I only use BA for short-haul flights and therefore have not gained many points yet.

The main advantage to Exec Club are the airport services - online check in, self service check-in machines etc available at most airports. I think BA now have approx. 10 different ways to check in if you are an Exec Club member!!!

The self-service check in machines came in most useful on my latest journey on September 15th. I'd flown into Gatwick from the US and as you can imagine the airport was extremley busy with very long queues. I only had about 60 mins to catch my BA flight up to Manchester. I walked staight up to a self service check in machine, inserted my exec club card along with my credit card. I was able to choose my own seat using the easy to follow on-screen instructions. My boarding card was then printed, a member of staff then immediately collected my luggage, tagged it and I was done! The whole process took lesss than 5 minutes!!

On another occasion I have also used the online check in, where you can check in the night before using any internet enabled PC, again you get to choose you own seat with easy to follow instructions - just turn up at the airport, drop your bags off at the fast bag drop desk, collect your boarding ard and off you go.

As with any frequent flyer program, you must make sure your number is given when booking the ticket. Using the BA web site you can see your up and coming booked flights.

My only complaint with BA exec club is how many miles you require for flight rewards (13,000 for a domestic UK flight). You also only receive tier points on full fair tickets.

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