Originally Posted by
Leaping_Deere
Thanks to all for your help. I guess that might be the case, wonder who makes money off these tickets!
The first flight I'm looking at is LHR to MVD via GRU, with BA on the LHR-GRU segment. and HKG-LHR on BA, hopefully that should be enough to keep them keen to ticket!!
I don't know about keen

but yes they should be willing to ticket it with one longhaul flight.
I don't think the ticketing carrier makes any money, only the codeshare/operating carriers on the ticket.