BA Gold travelling on AS (impact of their seating policy)
I have just returned from a great trip to SFO and SEA with side trip to Yellowstone via Billings and Bozeman. It involved 4 sectors with AS (well 2 with AS and 2 with QX (Horizon, part of the AS Group)).
Has anybody had experience travelling on AS as a BA gold or silver?
AS have a strict boarding process that starts with their MVP elite members, first class etc and then the main cabin in two halves (rows 15-35 and 6-14).
It took me a while to work out, but when calling forward their elite members, the AS gate staff included a reference to elite members of partner airlines.
What was not clear was who were partner airlines (later reference to the inflight magazine listed BA as a partner) and how they told whether you were an elite member (since the bp only has 'Executive Club nnnnnnnn'. I'd be interested to know the naswer particularly to this latetr point as on all 4 sectors gate staff turned away people not called for boearding