<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Dave Noble:
Only fare bases of T, G, E, L, W, S and I are inelgibable for credit to QF on Aer Lingus
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For now, perhaps, but do you seriously believe that they will keep giving you QF miles for booking classes that no longer qualify for EI miles? Whatever restrictions they introduce for earning miles in their own programme are more than likely to apply also to partner programmes.