My Tier Point year ends on the 8th March and, as I have no more flying lined up, I thought it would be interesting to review my year in the air.

This year I have flown more than I have ever done before, including:

• My first ex-EU fare
• My first American Airlines legs, including F on the A321T JFK-LAX
• My first Club World London City flight
• My first flight for business
• My first upgrade at the gate flight.

The majority of my flying has been domestic and intra-Europe to GLA, ABZ, MAN, BHD, DUB, FCO and NCE x 3 on a mixture of cash and redemption fares.

I also completed my first ex-EU Tier Point run / holiday as a DUB-LHR-JFK-LAX-LAS-MIA-JFK-LCY-DUB ticket.

I earned a total of 1020 Tier Points, planting me firmly into Silver, but too far away from Gold to justify chasing it. I also earned 32505 miles from flying. This takes my lifetime tier points up to 1270 since I joined the BAEC in February 2008, so it has been a busy year!

Month	Flights	Tier Points	Avios
May 2015	LHR-NCE-LHR	20	1290
June 2015	LHR-GLA-LHR	–	–
July 2015	LHR-BHD – LHR	10	500
August 2015	DUB-LHR-JFK-LAX-LAS-MIA-JFK-LCY-DUB LHR-FCO-LHR	930   –	26931   –
September 2015	LHR-NCE-LCY	20	1292
October 2015	LHR-MAN-LHR ABZ-LHR	15 5	875 325
February 2016	LHR-NCE-LCY	20	1292
		1020	32505

For completeness, I also flew 4 sectors on Alitalia (TLS-FCO-NAP-FCO-LHR), although too late for me to benefit from the status match.

Once the year is over, I will also look at the Avios earned from other areas like the AmEx and car hire, as well as Avios spent.

My upcoming year looks, at the moment, less busy. I have a few days booked to Nice, a TP run with my mum and an ex-CPH to SFO.

Month	Flights	Tier Points	Avios	Notes
May 2016	LHR-NCE-LHR	–	–	BA CE Avios / AmEx 241
July 2016	(LHR-)DUB-LHR-MAD-FRA-MAD-LHR-DUB-(LHR)	240	7352	BA/IB/LAN CE/Business Cash with positioning flights on Avios
August 2015	(LHR-)CPH-LHR-SFO-LHR-CPH-(LHR)	360	24996	BA CE/CW Cash + Avios part pay with positioning flights on Avios
		600	32348

This should see me to 600TP and a re-qualification to Silver until April 2018.

There are a couple of fun routes that I would like to try:

JER-LGW-AMS-LGW-JER with a nested AMS-LHR-GLA-KOI-ABZ-KOI-GLA-LHR-AMS can be had, earning, I think, 360TP and about 11,000 Avios. It is possible to do the LGW-JER-LGW-AMS-LHR and reverse on a Thursday and Monday, leaving the LHR-GLA-KOI-ABZ outbound on the Friday and in on the Sunday, which is fine for me as I live in London so cuts down on the accommodation costs. But is is a little crazy…!