TP oddity, Fuertaventura vs Tenerife
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My experience is that may never get updated, and it has no impact on what you actually get. The S and B on the other hand will be important, so you possibly won't see very much more until 3 days after your flight. I agree that in your position you will be looking at 20+40, though I don't wear hats very often. If you are unlucky the buckets may change to G + G, that would be more normal for BA Holidays.
They are still showing as fare classes "S" & "B",but the TPs have now updated in MMB to 60. In terms of the buckets changing, what would dictate this? The reason I ask is that the additional 20 TPs in this case actually makes a difference for various children hitting bronze, which in turn makes a difference for collecting quite a lot more Avios later in the year on previously-booked LH flights.
This is a half-term booking, so could it be that at the point of booking the tickets all the deep-discount economy seats were gone, and so it booked me into the next cheapest, which on one of the legs was a flexible ticket. It would certainly explain the eye-watering price!!
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Yes, that didn't happen by accident. There was a bit more to the background of this here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...-less-tps.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...-less-tps.html
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Yes, that didn't happen by accident. There was a bit more to the background of this here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...-less-tps.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...-less-tps.html
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Yes, I understand that, I am worried however by c-w-s' post that indicated surprise that BA holidays had booked into this bucket, rather than G, as well as his assertation that it could change to a different, lower-earning class.
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For reference, BA/AY short haul + TPs are:
Economy (Discounted) - 20 TP per leg
K M L V S N Q O G
Economy (Full fare) - 40 TP per leg
Y B H
Business -80 TP per leg
J C D R I
So your booking of S one way and B the other gives 20+40= 60 TPs as now showing on MMB. If it were G + G you would get 40 TPs in total instead.
Economy (Discounted) - 20 TP per leg
K M L V S N Q O G
Economy (Full fare) - 40 TP per leg
Y B H
Business -80 TP per leg
J C D R I
So your booking of S one way and B the other gives 20+40= 60 TPs as now showing on MMB. If it were G + G you would get 40 TPs in total instead.
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