Originally Posted by
Mrs.B
Thanks! The rules seem to change without notice. I have flown transatlantic twice this year; and this year for the first time ever, Aer Lingus (with BA codeshare on the ticket for the Aer Lingus portion of each trip, as an entirely BA ticketed flight) seems to have counted as BA metal for me - that is a very new thing!
The two round trips in Business moved me up to silver again in a trice.
I would assume/hope that AA would be similar (and would predate the Aer Lingus involvement by years) but as I normally prefer BA business class to AA, I don't have personal experience of how AA metal satisfies the tier requirements.
I think you are making things more complicated than they need to be. My understanding is that the rules on eligible flights have not changed for a long time - it is basically 1) any flight operated by British Airways
and/or 2) any flight with a British Airways flight number
or 3) any flight operated by Iberia AND with an Iberia flight number. It's probably one of the most straightforward aspects of membership, and as others mentioned, questions of who is ticketing, who is operating the BA coded flight or who is marketing the BA operated flight simply doesn't come into it at all.
The info is as per the sticky thread in this forum and explained clearly in the BAEC rules
https://www.britishairways.com/conte...ns#recognition (under 6.3).