Originally Posted by
gcuk
Never flying BA again based on what the OP believes to be an AA error is of course one option to the OP but that generally only makes the OP feel better.
Reading these forums, there are people leaving Star alliance, Skyteam and Oneworld airlines for other carriers. Will Ba miss the income from three Premium Economy trips a year? Sadly not. BA and IAG have just reported record profits but if switching to Star Alliance makes the OP feel better, more confident, etc that’s clearly the route to go.
Nothing against BA but we fly this route regularly and have something go wrong every time and it's always when AA get involved. In fact BA are normally great. In Heathrow for example when the AA service desk sent us to the BA service desk and the BA one sent us to the AA desk and this repeated several times it was BA who broke the farcical cycle and offered us a cheap cash upgrade to business to say sorry. All we got from American was a threat to call the police if we didn't go away. The lesson from this one was to book on BA Operated and numbered flights as far as DFW before the last dreaded unavoidable AA code share to BJX.
So maybe we try Star Alliance via Houston for a while. Makes sense being in GVA. Maybe you are correct and its also bad but I've had my fill of AA thanks. I was warned about US carrier’s international services but sometimes they cannot be avoided.