Yan Zhao

Hi there

I just booked my flight BA 16 from Sydney to London via Singapore for next month. I was just wondering if this flight will be counted as one or two eligible flights towards my executive club account?

Cheers
Yan

Gshumway

1 flight, also tier points will be for one flight.

Yan Zhao

Thanks! This is a bit of a shame as I could have booked the two flight separately or chosen to connect in Hong Kong

rapidex

If you book it as BA12 then BA16 thats 2 flights.

Globalist

Welcome to FlyerTalk Yan, you will see there is a wealth of information here and on the BA board in particular a number of extremely knowledgeable people.

For this flight as was mentioned above there is only one set of tier points and Avios however the number if higher than on a flight from LHR to SIN for example. To maximize the tier points people regularly change in Singapore between the BA 16 and BA 12 or do a stopover in Singapore breaking up the flight in 2 sectors.

As an TP example in Club World (Business class):
LHR SYD = 240
LHR-SIN + SIN-SYD = 160+140 = 300
So basically the break would give you 60 tier points (in CW).

The calculator is here:
https://www.britishairways.com/trave...r/public/en_gb

Globalist

Newly Wed

The usual advice is that you can cancel without penalty within 24 hours so you might want to consider cancelling and re-booking as 2 separate flights.

woglet86

Tafflyer

SYD-SIN, SIN-LHR and SYD-LHR are three different availability sectors. You will need availability that matches the ticket you have. It's not even for sure that SYD-LHR will be available if both SYD-SIN and SIN-LHR are available separately.

RGS5526

A few years ago BA discouraged changing flights in SIN on the SYD-SIN-LHR route, apparently because of a fairly tight connection. Now, however, it can be booked on ba.com. If the OP is rebooking, he (or she) should forget connecting in Hong Kong if collecting TP is significant. HKG-LHR gives 90 TP in WT+, 140 in CW, compared with 100 and 160, respectively, for SIN-LHR.

Globaliser

But either is still better than SYD-LHR as a single sector, and the further difference for SIN-LHR must be seen in that perspective:-

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"Forget about connecting in Hong Kong" is therefore probably over-stating the case. And given what the OP was concerned about (sector count), there is no difference between the two routings considering that BA codes are available on SYD-HKG (it makes no difference that they are operated by someone else).

Yan Zhao

Thanks Globalist for your advice! When I booked it I was mainly considering less connecting time and avoidance of the other daily flight operated by A380 from SIN to LHR (crazy huh) because of the number of passengers it carries (i.e. longer queue at boarding, longer queue at baggage reclaim etc). My tier points this year will be enough to maintain my silver membership but not quite enough for gold, so I guess that extra 60 points if I were to book my journey on two flights wouldn't make a difference to me except for the eligible segments. I will be travelling from the UK to France fairly frequently in November and December anyway, so 4 eligible flights won't be an issue for me either! But for future reference I will definitely consider booking my flight between LHR and SYD separately!

Cheers
Yan

hearingdouble

Indeed. And this is a counter-point to the two separate booking logic -- if you are lucky enough to find SYD-LHR availability, it will require less Avios to upgrade than separate upgrades for SYD-SIN and SIN-LHR.