Now that International Airlines Group (IAG), which owns British Airways, has purchased bmi, the airline is going to be folded into British Airways later this year. And according to the bmi website, “British Airways does not currently offer a lifetime status or set of lifetime benefits for their Gold customers and as such, Diamond Club Lifetime Gold members will be tier matched at Executive Club Gold for a minimum of one year.”

Bottom line: Lucky of BoardingArea.com’s One Mile at a Time blog sums it up this way, “So those who did earn lifetime status by maintaining top tier status with British Midland for 10 consecutive years get … nothing.”