Originally Posted by
mkjr
but QF/CX/JAL other OW can also play this protectionist game that BA is. if BA is going to devalue miles in a way that keeps more $$ out of other OW's pockets, the others can do also by making redemptions on BA metal equally painful and thus keep $ out of BA's pockets.
QF already does; apart from premium awards being exhorbitantly expensive ( 1st return LHR-SYD being 384k on Qantas ) , other than for JSA routes, QF charges more for redemptions on BA/CX than it does for redemptions on QF. To book CX r/t LHR-SYD would be 405k rather than 384k