Originally Posted by moxiefr
I'd love to go BUT it looks like I won't earn any FF! The best I could find was BA FF but only at 25%. Is there a way to obtain FF on other airlines?
1. 25% is not 0%.
2. The one-way distance LGW-KEF is 1200 miles, and you'll earn 300 miles with BA. So roundtrip you'll lose at most 2400 miles (and only 1800 miles). (Remember, you can get to London any way you want using miles. BA's LGW-KEF flight leaves from Gatwick early morning, so you can't connect to it same-day anyhow from any flight from the US I can think of, especially since many flights from the US come into Heathrow instead.)
3. There's a complete list of airlines serving KEF at the airport's website (airlines page):
http://www.keflavikairport.com/airlines.html
It lists several airlines (including Swiss and SAS) which partner with SOME alliance (OW is the only alliance I'm currently using, so all I know is that only BA is there from OW, I don't know all the members of *A and SkyTeam offhand). Research their earning partners to see if any of them would work better for you than BA (after getting to London some other way that does get you full FF).