Do other Oneworld airlines recognise BA Prem?
Feb 9, 2019, 7:25 pm
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Do other Oneworld airlines recognise BA Prem?
Hi all - Long time lurker on this board and I thank you all for the advice/guidance over the years.
Question for those of you who may know, do other Oneworld airlines recognise BA Prem when travelling on them? Aside from just being Oneworld Emerald?
Thanks
Question for those of you who may know, do other Oneworld airlines recognise BA Prem when travelling on them? Aside from just being Oneworld Emerald?
Thanks
Feb 11, 2019, 2:05 am
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Welcome to Flyertalk and welcome to the BA forum QR1, it's good to see you here and I hope that we will see more of you.
Just to amplify what Filthy said, if you make a BA booking via the Premier channels, and it has non BA sectors on it, then there will be notes on the booking about being a BA VIP, and also they will pass the information on to the other airline via any liaison process they have. This works best on BA + AA and BA + IB bookings so their teams will typically meet the Prem on arrival and guide them through, but it also happens with Qantas, Qatar, JAL and Cathay. From what I can make out, there isn't a lot of this going on, Prems are typically going direct on the whole, and some Prems make it known they don't want to be "mothered". There can be some strange outcomes if there is a non oneworld airline on the booking, such as Air Corsica. I heard of one (unsubstantiated) case on something like Bastia to Orly where a senior manager accompanied Lord Mandelson (since de-frocked as a Prem) the whole way from hotel reception to hotel reception, but I suspect there wasn't a lot going on at the time.
If you make a direct booking on say Qantas then you risk then you're just an Emerald. AA seem to have a system to pick it up but it's the usual BA VIP haziness and it's not consistently in place (and isn't consistent for AA Concierge Key either).
Last edited by corporate-wage-slave; Feb 11, 2019 at 2:11 am
Feb 11, 2019, 3:34 am
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Feb 11, 2019, 3:55 am
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Feb 11, 2019, 4:01 am
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Feb 11, 2019, 4:22 am
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Feb 11, 2019, 5:13 am
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Not sure about what Prems get and its been a couple of years since i was GGL but I definitely had special attention on AA flights and connections, I would have thought that Prems would at least get this.
Feb 11, 2019, 6:23 am
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