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Oct 2, 2018 | 5:49 am

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navylad

Join Date: Oct 2015

Location: London, UK

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Originally Posted by KARFA

i don't understand, why can't you book as one booking

LHR-DXB in CW reward booking with avios
MLE-LHR WTP reward booking with avios

Then apply one joker and one GUF to the booking to upgrade to F out and CW back?

The only issue I see is on the return as at least one flight wouldn't be on BA (perhaps the OP is planning to route MEL-HKG on QF or CX) then on to BA from HKG. For this the joker and GUF would obviously only apply to the BA flights and not to the non-BA flights.

In terms of TPs and avios then you aren't entitled to any since this is an underlying reward booking. It is possible you may get a bank error in your favour but I understand BA have been working on fixing that.

My understanding is that the GUF-1 and GUF-2 must be bookings entirely on BA metal. Obviously I'll bow to your better knowledge on this particular route, not having had to fly it.

Last edited by navylad; Oct 2, 2018 at 5:54 am

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