Hi all,

I'm trying to book flights from either UUD or IKT to LHR (flying via DME).

This should be entirely possible within Oneworld, because BA obviously flies DME - LHR, and S7 flies to DME from both UUD and IKT.

When I tried the BA website, it couldn't offer me anything to do with UUD or IKT whatsoever (even though I could see that the flights existed on the S7 website), but I phoned BAEC and they could offer me a cash fare from UUD/IKT to LHR.

So that was a partial success - but I'm keen to find out if there's any prospect of booking the UUD/IKT to DME leg with Avios. The woman in Sales on the BA phone-line checked Avios availability for me, and there was *zero* Avios availability on any date, in any class, from UUD or IKT to DME.

She wouldn't say anything beyond "there's no availability right now", but that situation feels to me as if S7 just aren't actually offering up reward Seats to Oneworld partners - or at least not on those routes.

Does anybody have any experience using Avios to buy S7 flights? Particularly helpful if you were flying a long-haul, internal S7 flight (as I would be if I went UUD or IKT to DME).

Is there anything else I should be trying? (I'm BAEC Gold, in case that's relevant.)

Thanks all!