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jerry a. laska Jan 13, 2007 2:06 pm


Originally Posted by Alvador (Post 7010384)
Thanks. This utility is great ^

I've been checking the miles required for BA oneworld awards and noticed that sometimes the miles required for business class are shown as 2x economy and for first class 3x economy
e.g. GRU-SFO-EDI
Econ 90, Biz 180, First 270
Whereas on other routes business class is shown as 3x economy and first class 4x economy
e.g. GRU-NYC-EDI
Econ 60, Biz 180, First 240
Is this correct or is there a glitch in the utility?

I've tried searching (britishairways.com, Google and FlyerTalk) for the rules on mileage required for businees / first class cabins on BA oneworld awards but without success.

http://www.britishairways.com/travel...e/public/en_hk

Alvador Jan 13, 2007 2:24 pm


Originally Posted by jerry a. laska (Post 7010415)

Thanks, but I think that information is for BA miles redemptions for flights on BA and/or one partner airline.

BA oneworld awards are for flights on
* Two or more oneworld™ partner airlines, not including BA or
* Three or more oneworld™ partner airlines, if the itinerary includes BA

The information on the BA website https://www.britishairways.com/trave...g/public/en_gb only specifies the miles needed for the economy cabin on these awards, not business and first class. I don't know if it's safe to assume that the miles required are the same as for BA only / one partner awards i.e. 2x for business and 3x for first class.

jerry a. laska Jan 13, 2007 2:43 pm


Originally Posted by Alvador (Post 7010487)
Thanks, but I think that information is for BA miles redemptions for flights on BA and/or one partner airline.

BA oneworld awards are for flights on
* Two or more oneworld™ partner airlines, not including BA or
* Three or more oneworld™ partner airlines, if the itinerary includes BA

The information on the BA website https://www.britishairways.com/trave...g/public/en_gb only specifies the miles needed for the economy cabin on these awards, not business and first class. I don't know if it's safe to assume that the miles required are the same as for BA only / one partner awards i.e. 2x for business and 3x for first class.

Ah, sorry. I misunderstood your question. Your answer should be towards the bottom of this post from the ultimate BA guide, a sticky on the BA forum.

Alvador Jan 13, 2007 3:03 pm


Originally Posted by jerry a. laska (Post 7010593)
Ah, sorry. I misunderstood your question. Your answer should be towards the bottom of this post from the ultimate BA guide, a sticky on the BA forum.

Thanks ^
The answer from that post is

As with all awards, if you want to travel in business class, you need to multiply the miles you need by 2x, and if you want to travel in first, by 3x.
so the 3x for business class and 4x for first class shown in MileageMonkey is presumably incorrect.

SLF Jan 15, 2007 10:18 am


Originally Posted by Alvador (Post 7010679)
Thanks ^
The answer from that post is
so the 3x for business class and 4x for first class shown in MileageMonkey is presumably incorrect.

Seems so; it was only affecting sectors 4001-9000 miles, as all the others had the correct multiples. There is a 25000-35000 entry in the ba.com page which wasn't in the MM table, so I've added that too (140/280/420 '000 miles for Y/J/F). 0.95008 is uploaded now.

Alvador Jan 15, 2007 10:36 am


Originally Posted by SLF (Post 7020783)
Seems so; it was only affecting sectors 4001-9000 miles, as all the others had the correct multiples. There is a 25000-35000 entry in the ba.com page which wasn't in the MM table, so I've added that too (140/280/420 '000 miles for Y/J/F). 0.95008 is uploaded now.

Thanks for making the modification so quickly. BA oneworld awards 4001-9000 miles now show the mileage requirement that I would expect. Afraid I'm not likely to be using 420 000 miles for an award anytime soon though :)

SLF Jan 16, 2007 9:22 am

Beta 0.95009 is available
 
Version 1.1 of JPH's tool has been located :)

Version 0.95009 is a substantial change from 0.95008, incorporating (hopefully) all of the enhancements and corrections added to the 0.9500x releases, plus the additional enhancements which were added into 1.1 (such as the "List Countries" button, old QF program being stripped out, LA added, plus some fixes).

To be clear, 0.95009 is a superset of both 0.95008 and 1.1.

If you wish to try 0.95009 (and I'd encourage everyone to do so), you'll need to follow the link from the earlier post in this thread to the "Older and beta versions", and then select "Latest beta version". After a little while, I'll move it from beta and replace the 0.95008 version.

Please give feedback in this thread, e.g. any issues encountered etc.

tt7 Jan 20, 2007 8:52 pm

VIE (Vienna) not in Europe
 

Originally Posted by SLF (Post 7026566)
Please give feedback in this thread, e.g. any issues encountered etc.

Like the old version (so it presumably carried over from there) it thinks Vienna (VIE) is somewhere other than Europe so that, for example, LHR-VIE-HEL comes out as
: LHR-VIE: intercontinental
: VIE-HEL: intercontinental

The author previously fixed this but I guess the current version in use is based on a 'pre-fix' version.

SLF Jan 21, 2007 2:20 am


Originally Posted by tt7 (Post 7060010)
Like the old version (so it presumably carried over from there) it thinks Vienna (VIE) is somewhere other than Europe so that, for example, LHR-VIE-HEL comes out as
: LHR-VIE: intercontinental
: VIE-HEL: intercontinental

The author previously fixed this but I guess the current version in use is based on a 'pre-fix' version.

Thanks tt7, I've moved VIE to Europe now :). I also moved the beta to the main 0.95 page.

SLF Jan 22, 2007 3:26 pm

0.95010 available
 
This includes a feature to generate a link for an OWE itinerary, permitting:
  • an itinerary to be bookmarked
  • the ability to post a link to your itinerary on FT - enabling easier discussion
For example, click here and then choose Submit.

Kiwi Flyer Jan 22, 2007 5:18 pm

Thanks SLF ^. Some of BA's caribbean flights aren't listed. LGW-TAB/SXM/GCM etc.

SLF Jan 23, 2007 10:26 am


Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer (Post 7072280)
Thanks SLF ^. Some of BA's caribbean flights aren't listed. LGW-TAB/SXM/GCM etc.

Whoops! I loaded the wrong flights database (from 1.1, when I should have used 0.95008). Now fixed.

So, LGW-TAB is restored; LHR-GCM is OK, but AFAICT BA don't fly LON-SXM?

Kiwi Flyer Jan 23, 2007 12:38 pm

Sorry I got the saints mixed up, I meant UVF (St Lucia) not SXM (St Maarten).

barking frog Jan 26, 2007 9:52 pm

Thanks for the great tool. Is there any way to specify surface segments?

serfty Jan 26, 2007 10:05 pm

yes, as in "-HNL-LAX,SFO-DFW-" for a LAX-SFO "Surface Segment"


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