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Old May 17, 2018, 7:53 am
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Originally Posted by kyanar
I suspect it's more to do with the 9th Freedom - no foreign carrier may operate 9th Freedom (Domestic Cabotage) within either the US or Australia ...
I'm sure that this is the by far the biggest factor in it.

However, whatever the reasons are, there certainly isn't any linkage to whether residents of Australia are permitted to join the BA frequent flyer scheme, contrary to the suggestion in this post:-
Originally Posted by kyanar
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?
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