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Just credited an AA flight to my Avios account and after it posted, I saw the cash component of the BA Comair flights I was considering drop by more than $100!

haasha

^

Also note that Avios.com often has better availability than ba.com on as it uses different bucket (not sure if shorthaul only).

Don't know what availability oneworld partners have access to, but I am guessing the same as ba.com.

MatthewLAX

Thanks.

Will an AMEX transfer do the trick?

haasha

I have not tried Amex myself, but I have no reason to believe it won't.

I have re-activated the RFS offer with few avios from topcashback or something like that, so you should be fine.

absolutboy20

Deleted. Moved to appropriate thread.

ECR

I'm not sure that this is still the case.

onlysuites

As of a week back I definately found more seats on Avios.com then BA.com

beardoc

Forgive me for checking, I notice D class is in both Discounted Economy and in Business. Is there something wrong in this image?

Thanks for a fantastic thread, by the way.

Globaliser

FWIW, the current BA page for QR gives the following booking classes:-

Discounted economy - LVSNTQO (25%) / G (50%) / HKM (75%)
Full-fare economy - YB
Business - CJDI
First - FPA

skba1

A quick question.

A MH ticket issued in low economy in Q class (what exactly is this class?) according to the avios calculator all low economy tickets on MH should earn 25% avios and half TP.

If I on the other hand go into the site via "earn miles with our partners" only booking classes L, V, S get 25% and K,M 50% and Y, B, H get 100%.

So what about Q?

It was a ticket bought for cash via the local representative office for MH, so shouldn't be in any way a strange ticket like ID or reward booking class.

KARFA

Well as you noted Q isn't listed on the earning table on ba.com for MH - which might suggest it doesn't earn anything. Also looking at aa.com for MH earning Q (along with N & O) is specifically listed as earning nothing. I know aa is a different ffp but the partner booking class earning tables on aa and ba tend to be pretty closely aligned.

EDIT: this seems to confirm as well that Q earns no avios or TPs

skba1

Yeah, I already checked AA as well, and there seems to be more obvious information.

I guess you have to call me stupid for going to the Avios/TP calculator and choosing 'low economy' before booking to see that I earn 35 TP per way. (Don't give a toss about avios as I have plenty)

Now it appears I have paid Ł400 for a return KUL-PEK (which can hardly be considered a ridiculously low fare although it is of course not expensive) that gives exactly 0 TP and 0 avios when the calculator indicates it gives 70 TP and some avios. How exactly is a normal passenger (that doesn't even know what a booking class is) going to react?

I'll take this up with BA in my next rant to them. (They are claiming my other two legs on this journey (which for sure are in earning booking classes) are credited already to my account but they are not!!!)

yokozuma

I'm going to be booking a lot of CX flights soon for the first time. In order to earn Avios on them rather than Asia Miles I am guessing I can put my BAEC number on the booking rather than CX FF number?

Edit: Making the booking through CX website aswell.

KARFA

Yes, when you get to the "Enter passenger information" screen during the booking process there is a drop down list for frequent flyer program and BAEC is in that list. You also put your BAEC number in the "Frequent Flyer Number" field. After you fly your TPs & avios shoudl credit to your BAEC account.

tentativetraveller

My EC page is showing that I need only 800TP to retain gold. I've had that for two years now but this time I did not make it to Gold and I'm dropping to Silver soon. So I thought the Gold threshold would go up to normal levels of 1500TP for me. Not complaining at all as this year I might get the 800TP but definitely not 1500TP.