Originally Posted by
henry999
In the Matt's Planet video that keeps getting mentioned lately -- 'OneWorld Emerald status for £4.5k? Go Around The World...' -- he explicitly says
> And I can also perhaps exclusively reveal that Finnair flights when flown on Finnair
> and credited to Finnair but bought through a different airline also credit at 250% of miles flown.
> That's not on their website anywhere but I've asked them and they've confirmed it.
'Finnair flights' sounds like AY coded and 'flown on Finnair' sounds like AY operated. 'Credited to Finnair ... at 250% of miles flown'. It looks like the key is 'bought through a different airline', such as a OW RTW!
Or can Matt be proved wrong?
Data point from my recently finished DONE3, ticketed by AA.
I had 2 AY flights in it (AGP-HEL-OSL on "real" AY flight numbers, no codeshare) and first some totally random Avios posted.
I reached out to customer service (as some other flights required fixing) and asked about how those 2 flights were calculated. They then adjusted the Avios for both flights to a much lower amount without a real comment and only after another follow up they confirmed both legs were posted as spend based (portion of the leg / ticket) x AY+ status bonus.
So it seems for RTW tickets crediting to AY+ one should avoid AY flight numbers completely and only relay on codeshares if on AY metal.
I am currently trying to prepare a small thread about my overall experience BA(E)C -> AY+ but takes time (I am a lazy writer
).