Originally Posted by
Grumpyflyer
Thanks both for your speedy replies. The LHR-JNB-CPT return are indeed on 125 stock. The original flight was BA/Comair but when the latter folded the internal flights were transferred to SAA. Needing the 4 flights on 125 stock to re qualify (our other long haul BA flights this year on 125 stock were booked through an agent as I couldn’t contact BA and the web site was bad and also haven’t received Avios or qualification flights) I phoned the gold line to see if the SAA portion could be given original route credit and after some time checking the agent told me that not only orc wouldn’t be applied but the whole trip wouldn’t get Avios or count toward the qualifying requirements. The app seems to confirm this hence I am adding another trip.
If you flew the lhr-jnb rtn legs on BA then it would appear, from what you have said so far, those legs should be giving TP and avios. What reason did they give for those flights not giving avios and TP?