Originally Posted by
baggageinhall
Sure, but from London to South Africa using BA miles, your options are limited to BA and IB.
With *A, there are flights on LH via FRA and MUC, LX, TK, MS, SA, TP
Indeed and pretty much why availability via BDDC and *A is often much better than via BAEC and OW, not just there but to many destinations (although it could be counter-argued that there are many more FFP members fighting for these seats in *A than there are in OW). That was my point to start with, viz. that there is not exceptionally good availability via BAEC, as some seemed to be suggesting that BDDC availability was comparable.