Yes, looks like it. Not sure if it's an improvement yet.
For me, on conventional routes like LHR-HKG, LHR-NYC it seems to show BA and partner (CX/AA) flights straight-away, which seems helpful.
What route are you looking at- it may be too complex or it may just be there is no partner availability. (If it's NYC-LHR for our late December search, it's the latter: try 14th Dec for example and it shows AA flights without prompting.)
Nice! Not, technically, a massive change but definitely more customer friendly.
Miles & More and various other airlines should take a lesson from this. Most airlines make you ring up to discuss partner availability in a pathetic attempt to put people off, as it costs the airlines more than using their own capacity.
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I can now search for EZE-GRU without being told what I already know - that BA don't fly that route. Very fast results as well.
If they could sort out the AEP-USH anomaly I would be ecstatic.
I also think this is a very nice improvement. I note it also shows options on a mix of carriers when a direct flight is not available. For example I just tried a quick search for a flight in F LHR:HKG and was offered BA in F to PEK and PVG and then onward with Cathay or Dragon Air respectively.
It looks like they've shipped over the avios.com search tool, which displays IB and other airlines in the same fashion. Makes sense I suppose they started there as BAEC had a working search tool.
Now please could you add AS availability. AAdvantage manage to do so (in fact I think the AAdvantage search tool is still a little better).
