Originally Posted by
whmere
One alternative is to route your flights via Canada or BDA where, as I understand it, BA flights can accrue AAdvantage miles.
Incindentally, I believe the lack of anti-trust waiver for BA/AA had more to do with the histrionics of UA and CO's lobbyists than with the beardy. All the BA/AA slots to be surrendered were to go to them. Beardy wanted some of them but the only path to getting them was to align himself for the anti-trust waiver not against it. Enemy mine...
Thanks - I looked at the Canada option and even MEX, but it's awkward - I have to do AUS-ORD-YYZ-LHR which means I have to leave at lunchtime and end up in Heathrow when I would prefer to be in Gatwick. Set that against a 4 or 5pm CO departure to IAH, then straight to Gatwick, and I'm not enough of a collector to want to take the indirect route.
I guess I was remembering the beardy one painting "No way AA/BA" on the side of his machines. He does have a habit though of presenting himself as the downtrodden entrepreneur, when in this particular case he's done nothing for anyone unless they happen to be close to one of his gateways - don't seen many of them round here! Is it only me that finds it curious other groups are allowed more flexibility on their FF schemes?