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Baggage - despite my booking being all one ticket to MAD, this wasn’t recognised by Loganair, they said due to the itinerary including an IB segment, so they wouldn’t check my case all the way to MAD meaning I had to collect it at LHR T2 and re-check it in at T5 which was very inconvenient.
Lounge access at MME - not possible. Whilst I have a Priority Pass card and still got in with that, having a BA 125- ticket in J (at least for the LHR-MAD legs) and BAEC Gold didn’t count for anything (this may be correct though and if so I accept that). Interestingly the lady at the lounge had no knowledge whatsoever of BA codeshares using MME / Loganair and I was the first person to ever ask.
Finally - only received 5 TPs and 625 Avios for the MME-LHR leg compared with 40 + 1250 if I’d travelled from Newcastle (and 20 + 1000 for the inbound).
A few thoughts on this. The local of through checking luggage might be because of a lack of interline agreement between Loganair and Iberia? Can someone with Expertflyer check?
I think lounge access is right. Loganair don’t offer business class and BA don’t have a lounge agreement at MME as they don’t fly there. Even then lounge access on code shares outside of Oneworld can be quite restricted.
The TP sounds wrong. What fare class were you booked into? What did Expedia say about the class of this segment compared to the previous one you mentioned?
My experience of these types of codeshares - airline X ticket, with travel on airlines Y and Z who both parter X but not each other - has often been a bit lumpy.