British Airways - Premier Executive Club

Program Overview

The Premier Executive Club is the invitation-only highest-tier frequent flyer program for the British airline, British Airways. Its members can earn both miles and tier points. It offers perks such as access to exclusive lounges and dedicated reservation lines.

Earn Opportunities

The Premier Executive Club program allows members to earn a mile for every mile flown with British Airways, its partners, and Oneworld Alliance members in full-fare economy class, with a minimum of 500 miles flown. On discounted economy tickets, 25 percent of actual miles flown are earned on the Executive Club program, with a 125 mile minimum. Bonuses, such as a higher tier or tickets purchased through the World Traveller Plus program, also apply. Additional ways to earn miles include using a co-branded AMEX card, certain hotel stays, car rentals, an online mall, and other retail partners.

Redeem Opportunities

Points earned in the Premier Executive Club program can be redeemed for free flights and upgrades, on the basis of the mileage "costs" of twelve zones. The least expensive, a domestic roundtrip coach award, costs 9,000 miles, while the most expensive, from South America to the Southwest Pacific, costs 160,000 miles.

Transfer Opportunities

The Premier Executive Club program maintains partnerships with other airlines in the Oneworld Alliance, including American, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, JAL, LAN, Malev, Royal Jordanian and Qantas airlines. However, miles earned cannot be transferred to non-flight-related services or businesses.

Conclusion

The Executive Club, Premier program is exclusively for those chosen by British Airways' Board of Directors. It has great perks (although the details of how it compares to British Airways' other tiers are not publicly available), but is only given to the select few whom British Airways chooses - a number rumored to be in the low thousands.