Mwenenzi

Have you checked the opening hours relative to your departing flight?

AirborneLocksmith

According to the OW lounge lookup page, they’re all supposed to be open, and I have confirmed that on the respective airlines' lounge information pages. I arrive at LHR T5 at 07:30 and depart from T3 shortly after 10:00.

jerry a. laska

Extensive discussion of the best T3 lounges can be found in this thread in the BA forum:
Best T3 OneWorld Lounge

AirborneLocksmith

Thank you!
I searched the OW forum for existing posts/threads, but didn't think of searching the airline-specific forums as well.

offvoice

Hey there - new to OW, I figured I'd ask my question here (since it's flame-free, but we'll see how it goes).

I've been a SkyTeam Elite Plus (Platinum) member for 5 years with AF, but I recently relocated to CMN, hub of AT.

I'm mainly after status, more than awards. AT offers silver after 15 status flights. Asking the experts here: would there be any reason whatsoever to join another member instead of AT, taking into consideration I'll mainly be flying either AT or IB in coach on hops either within Africa or between Africa and Europe?

I'd assume not, but as I'm not familiar (at all) with the alliance, I figured I'd ask members of this board

Thanks in advance (and please be flame-free )

8592nd

I'm with CX and I put them down as my FF number on some QR and BA flights 8 months ago. I can't find the class for BA but it was only BHD-BER. The QR flights were BER-HAN in O and T classes.

The miles didn't go through and I presumed I had to claim them as I've done before, especially seeing it was a long haul route on a full service airline like QR for 12,000 miles, but according to wheretocredit.com CX won't even give you any miles for those.

So it's well over 6 months. QR and BA won't let me claim miles over 6 months ago and it's even less likely if you make a new account with them now, then claim. It's a long shot but are there any OW airlines that'll let me claim miles over 6 months ago and from a new account?

ernestnywang

Can't help you with your main question, but you can (and should) always refer to the official tables at https://www.asiamiles.com/en/earn-mi...ritish-airways and https://www.asiamiles.com/en/earn-mi.../qatar-airways

petez

Just starting to put a potential DONE5 together and one of the places I want to visit is MLE.
My question is would ......NRT/MLE/SYD/DOH..... be a valid routing ? - I think it is but just want to check

Mwenenzi

There are no non-stop flights NRT-MLE and MLE-SYD. Need a valid route. The intermediate flights-transits do count.
Unsure what region MLE is. Asia? Others will know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velana...tional_Airport
A map from the Great Circle Mapper - Great Circle Mapper

ernestnywang

Yes, Asia.

pandaperth

In terms of continents, your routing is: Asia (NRT and MLE) - South West Pacific (SYD) - Europe/Middle East (DOH)
and that is a valid routing
(But note that you cannot travel to MLE via DOH, or from MLE via DOH, so with the current schedules, you will have to travel via CMB both ways)
And yes, MLE is in Asia

petez

Many thanks - based on the responses will probably look at NRT/DEL/SYD/DOH to give me some more flexibility and look at some LCC options to MLE.

Another question - I'm also looking to maximize my BA Tier Points. If I start from OSL with OSL-LHR am I right assuming that something like LHR-HEL-LHR is possible before a LHR-transatlantic ?

Leafs1967

Hello - brand-new here, hoping the flame-free promise holds true ...

I'm Exec Platinum on AA and have earned this yearly thru domestic travel on AA. However, I will be moving to the UK for a 12-month stint from May 2023-May 2024. I'll be traveling extensively throughout Europe during this period, in coach, mostly on BA flights, plus I'll also be adding on 6-8 transatlantic flights during this period. My questions:

- should I stay with AAdvantage for this period or switch to BA's program for the year? I'm confident I'll earn top-tier status on either based on spend & # flights, just wondering if there's an advantage (pun intended) to having this with AA or BA given that I'll be living on London and flying BA
- which carrier is recommended for LHR-DFW travel? I've only ever flown on AA on this route, is BA's service better or worse?

Thanks in advance for the advice!

Mwenenzi

For only 12 months stay with AAdvantage. It would take some time to earn BAEC status.
What do you expect from (top tier) status? In UK it will *not* be free upgrades.

BAEC is going from a distance based ffp to a revenue based ffp. BAEC membership year is based on when you join. Not calendar year like AA.

From UK to EU on BA flights will not earn much, to any ffp, as these flights are short and can be cheap. Other airlines may have better schedules, routes & pricing compared to BA.

Look at the links in post 2. Have been AAdvantage vs BAEC comparisons before.
-->Deciding on a Oneworld Frequent Flyer Program? Help is here.

From 2018, but the AA ffp has changed since then-->Just moved to London: AA versus BA versus United

petez

I think this is allowed but if I start with say OSL-DOH-JFK..... can I finish with .....PER-DOH-OSL ?