Originally Posted by
headinclouds
Yes, it is doable to earn BA Gold if you avoid the AA/BA/IB JV. I was looking at my current AONE3 and saw that it was possible, but a tad more difficult. And A earns 40% while D earns 50% of milage. What !!! But how can one get AA to do the ticketing, considering they want an over the ocean segment? Book with JAL? That is the $64 question.
DONE4 ex-OSL at same price as DONE3 ex-TYO yielding 29K TP's
OSL-DOH-SYD-HND-SIN-HND-BKK-HND-JFK-ANC-LAX-NAS-LAX-DOH-DUB-DOH-OSL All QR and JL except the NA segments which are on AS (25% mileage) One earns 17K TP's thru the HND-JFK segment, so can adjust as necessary for one's own comfort.
On a DONE4, if you want AA to ticket, you might consider GRU / GIG / EZE / SCL (maybe they still have MVD too?) for your intercontinental segment, leaving TPAC and TATL for JL and QR codes. I don't know if the more northern South America flights that aren't labeled as Flagship would count or not (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Guyana), but anecdotal evidence from last year says that the deep South America flights with Flagship service should count.