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Yes indeed, I suspect this is more incompetence than bad will but it is quite incredible that it has not changed for so long. My sense is that the revenue team people who work out fare rules have not quite realised that there is a world beyond BA and that for MH, I is not actually a revenue class so it seems normal to them to ask for that when an MH flight is selected as part of a BA I class fare (note that using the same bucket letters is neither a requirement nor a universal practice - for instance, BA no full well not to impose K class when you book a Y connection to a T fare on MH or CX or AA even though this is what it asks on BA connections to the same fare). Conversely, the BAEC people are not bothering to find out that I is sold as paid class when connecting to a BA I fare so not trying to discuss this with MH.
And passengers are just stuck in the middle...