Just got off the phone with BA concerning the UK program and the 1World bonus. Apparently BA will not count flights on 1 World Carriers in which they have flights for the route flown. These will still count for Air Miles and Tier Points, but not the bonus.

So a flight from TPE-HKG on CX will get me miles and points, but will not count towards the bonus since BA has a competing flight on that route. This rule would also negate the QF code share from LHR-AMS, Finnair flights from LHR-HEL, and CX flights from AMS-MAN among others.

Has anyone else heard of this restriction? Does it apply to the USA bonus. I am hoping that the rep was simply misinformed, but she seemed pretty knowledgeable.

I had called BA at least 4 times before I started my pursuit of this bonus and am amazed that this never came up in my conversation with BA.

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