‘My Flightpath’ – a cool new tool on ba.com

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British Airways launched a new tool on ba.com yesterday – ‘My Flightpath’.

You can access it here (log-in required).

When BA launched Lifetime Tier Points last year, they were forced into assembling lots of data on your British Airways trip history. Someone clearly thought that it was a shame to see this data go to waste!

So, log in via the link above and this is what you will now see. The data here is for my 2 year old. In reality he has done more than this but we didn’t bother getting him a BAEC number until he took his first revenue flight!

Your dashboard – a quick summary of where you have flown on BA and partners:

Your cities and countries – a map of where you have been:

and finally

Your badges – try to collect a few badges (no prizes!) for ticking off some arbitrary targets:

It doesn’t have any great purpose (except, looking at the Flyertalk discussion on this, to convince a lot of people that BA must have calculated their lifetime tier points wrongly!), but I bet you end up sneaking a look ….

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