Originally Posted by
IRISHFLYER1
Ideally I would like to earn both Tier and AVIOS with BA account, however as of now I can ZERO Tier for EI flights. Hopefully that will change.
It's been almost 8 years now since IAG bought out Aer Lingus. And it's been over 6 years since Gold Circle was shut down and Aer Lingus was moved over to an Avios-based FFP. And it's been well over a year since Aer Lingus entered the Atlantic Joint Business (AJB) between American, British Airways, Iberia and Finnair.
If the BA Executive Club was ever minded to award Tier Points on EI-coded flights, it would have happened a long, long time ago.
I, for one, have given up on it ever happening.
Originally Posted by
IRISHFLYER1
You also do not seem to be able to book DUB-USA with Aer lingus on the BA website
Indeed, but BA is not a travel agent that will sell all possible tickets - even on a "partner" - and it naturally prefers to sell revenue tickets for its own services, rather than offering you BA flightcodes (or EI prime flights) on routes such as that. The same is true for all airlines; you won't be offered any LHR-USA with BA on the EI website when looking for revenue bookings; instead, they'll offer you connecting flights via DUB (admittedly, occasionally they offer a BA-operated LHR-DUB flight as part of an itinerary) and SNN rather than putting you on their "partners" BA and AA who have non-stop flights.