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Old Feb 19, 2012 | 2:02 pm
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Originally Posted by lxshaggy
Hi All,

if you fly to Doha economy do you get 35 tier points or since it stops at Bahrain do you get 45 (35 for London to Bahrain) and then 10 Bahrain to doha
also any recommendations for a good tier point run whilst there,I'm sure I've read that there used to be really good runs from Doha but this has now stopped

Thanks for your help
Yes indeed, the BAH/DOH and AUH/MCT used to earn full long haul TPs if booked as stand-alone sectors; so a BAH-DOH-BAH run in F could get you 360 TPs for a couple of hundred pounds. I did it once in J AUH-MCT-AUH but I needed to be in MCT anyway so it wasn't strictly a (240) TP run and the anti-social hours of the flights meant that I felt I'd earned the points, but easily the cheapest TPs ever earnt.

Some people used to fly out to the Gulf specially to do this, but after too much exposure, BA nixed these earning possibilities (there were some similar runs you could do in the Caribbean too) - can't remember now - about 4 years ago.

Happy days.
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