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This actually also isn't entirely correct, at least when crediting to BA. The fare code for the "first" legs here is A and one earns the 60 tier points for first rather than 40 for business (even tough it actually says business (A) in the earnings).
Yes, it's something like the heavy TP-earner we used to have in the US when BA's business-class travel morphed into AA's domestic first-class. Regardless of travel being on business-class fares, BA followed AA's F and A coding to give its happy BAEC members 210 TP on routes longer than 2,000 miles.
Coupled with transatlantic travel on the Babybus, London to Hawaii in three hops could yield 1,260 TPs. Extraordinarily low fares on that route generated TP at the holy grail rate of 1TP/£, in turn giving birth to an creche-full of new GGLs
