Originally Posted by
carrotjuice
Originally Posted by
kyanar
This makes sense when you remember that people living in Australia aren't permitted to be BAEC members. If they discover your residential address is Australian, they will close your account and tell you to join QFF.
If they don't allow customers living in the country to join the FFP why would they have codeshares allowing customers there to get TP and Avios? It's pointless!
Never quite understood this rationale either.
The occasional recent BAEC references to this situation suggest that it's a restriction that BA is constrained to live with, rather than actively wanting to continue. IIRC, it dates back to the days of the BA/QF JSA. Other BAEC anomalies that may date back to that period are being able to earn BAEC mileage (now Avios) and TPs on QF-marketed flights operated by non-OW airlines.
This has nothing to do with whether or not BA has codeshare flights within the country in question. BA does have its code on flights within Australia. The reason you can't book them is nothing to do with the frequent flyer scheme. After all, you don't need a BA-coded flight to earn Avios and TPs in BAEC: you just need to buy and fly on QF.
There are plenty of examples of countries whose residents are very welcome as members of BAEC, but within which you cannot buy a standalone BA-coded flight. For example, there are plenty of BA-coded domestic flights within the US, and plenty of US-resident BAEC members - but you cannot buy a BA-coded US domestic flight on its own.