PAL62V

I'm having a very early look at flights to FAE. Looking at Skyscanner, etc they list indirect flights from LON (LON-CPH-FAE) using two BA flight numbers, yet the number used for the second leg is clearly for BCN-LHR. This is using an OTA called BudgetAir. Not sure where that's coming from.

Going directly to BA, they list a BA flight for leg one, with the second leg on Atlantic Air, which is the only airline that covers that route. If I search for this using Avios I get a warning saying that neither BA or its partners fly to FAE, which strictly speaking is correct.

So, if I can buy a flight from BA, why can I not get it on Avios? And if I did buy it on BA, would only the first leg or both legs qualify for TPs and Avios?

jerry a. laska

Atlantic Air isn’t a partner of BA and so you cannot redeem avios on a nonpartner airline.

If you bought a cash ticket at ba.com the first flight on BA would earn avios and TPs. As Atlantic Air is not a partner, the only way you could earn avios and TPs is if there was a BA codeshare on this flight and you were booked on the BA codeshare.
See this post in the Guide:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/33863742-post6.html

corporate-wage-slave

Vágar Airport is one of my haunts and in my experience you best reserve this for your Star Alliance frequent flyer airmiles, not that SAS from CPH is always good use of it, I think the cash fares aren't usually too bad. I can't see BA, or even BACF going to FAE, even if the RAF built the airport.

South London Bon Viveur

That would be a niche destination . I would hope BA re-start ICN and BKK before starting FAE.

rcspeirs

You didn't specify date. In summer, there are also two flights a week from Edinburgh to Vagar, again by Atlantic airways

PAL62V

Yes, summer time. I had a look at Atlantic and CDG, EDI plus a couple of others are options, although maybe the wrong days of the week.

bhbloke

I did it last year booked two tickets, LCY-EDI with BACF and then EDI-FAE with Atlantic. Way up was fine. The way was a disaster as a typical Faroese day of weather meant nothing could land for a large chunk of the day. Atlantic don't have any kind of fleet size to cope with that so I think we arrived into EDI about 8 hours late. Of course being EDI there isn't a single BA staff member to be found anywhere

A very expensive delay, cost me a last minute hotel booking at the airport plus the final seat the next morning on the first LCY flight.

SKT-DK

Well to be fair, a failed separate tickets connection is entirely on you, not BA nor Atlantic Airways…

Kgmm77

just be glad of the RNAV approach and the A320 aircraft Atlantic now operate. Back in the BAe 146 era delays in and out of Vagar were measured in days not hours!

bhbloke

I fully appreciate your wisdom, oh wise one

bhbloke

We were sat in the terminal and you could hear them trying the approach. On occasion one would drop into view and everyone would clap as they waited so see which flight it would operate.

Mostly we never even saw them.

salut0

Slightly off topic but just saw that Atlantic Airways are starting a new once/week route at the end of August until October(?) between New York and the Faroes. Unusually it’s a daytime flight going eastbound and it uses SWF airport (also used by Icelandic low-cost carrier Play).

FAE-SWF Tuesday
SWF-FAE Wednesday

https://www.atlanticairways.com/en-us/book/routes/faroe-islands

Confus

Yes, they decided it was cheaper to keep an aircraft there overnight than a crew there for a week. And the biggest difficulty has apparently been getting enough crew US visas, they’ve all had to go to Copenhagen for interviews!

salut0

Sounds like you have some inside scoop — what made them decide to start the route so late in the summer? They basically miss the entire US summer holiday season so I don’t see how many US-originating passengers they hope to get. Will there be enough FAE-originating traffic to support these flights?