Originally Posted by
salut0
It would also interesting and somewhat ironic in that although the JBA shares revenue between AA/BA/AY, because they (or their parent entities) are separate publicly traded companies, in effect this would mean that they continued to compete with each other for mileage program members even despite their collaboration in revenue terms elsewhere.
I wonder what proportion of BA’s revenue, and what proportion of their total number of unique individual customers, comes from passengers not originating in London? Any stats online about that?
I don't know what the answer to that is, but I can tell you that I'm flying business class on AA's non-stop flights from FCO to ORD and back next month. I had a choice of booking the same AA-operated flights with BA, IB, or AA codes. They all had similar pricing on Expedia, which offers better I class availability out of the US inventory, and I chose to book them with BA flight numbers because they earned more Avios. If the announced changes apply to myself as a US-based BAEC member, the next time I won't hesitate to book them with AA flight numbers, and I suspect that in that case BA's share of the revenue on those Italy-USA AA-coded and -operated flights is nil.