Aisle Seat H

BA are offering super cheap special offer Club Europe fares from Gatwick. All are between £160-250 return including taxes, to destinations like Turin, Krakow, Venice, Bari, Dublin, Gibraltar, Malta, Canary Islands, across France, Spain, Portugal, Naples, etc, etc.

But they are 'Operated by GB Airways' - so (and yes, some of you will remember that we have been here before !) can we or can we not earn QF miles/points and SCs on them ?

The Qantas FF T&Cs don't say that you can't earn on flights operated by another carrier, but, as previously reported, they have refused to give me miles/points and SCs before for codeshares etc.

As all these flights are operated as BA flight numbers only, with staff in BA livery, etc, etc, I was hoping that they would be the equivalent of QantasLink etc.

Does anyone know ? Yes, I know I can call Qantas FF here in the UK and ask, and I will, but they rarely know what they are talking about so I wanted to see if anyone here knows... and thought some of you might wanna know about the fares too !

Kiwi Flyer

Thanks. Do you have a link for the specials?

I thought GB was like QF Link, or perhaps Jet Connect is a better analogy. Last year when I flew Logan Air (another one with BA code and marketed as BA) I got points as if it was BA.

Aisle Seat H

Ta, hope you are right.

Link to the promo details on the GB Air website here - http://www.gbairways.com/news_offers...cle/?p=7&a=452 - but to book them just go to BA.com as you would to book any BA flight.

Also special ones from France it seems - http://www.britishairways.com/travel...3/public/en_fr - and maybe from other ports too.

Kiwi Flyer

Thanks for the link.

ANstar

Yes. You earn full SC's, points + bonus fopr cabin & Status.

I di a cheapo £189 Ibiza I class last year with GB. The flights are operated with a BA code also.

Aisle Seat H

Fabulous. Will be taking some of these flights then !

qasr

Looks like LGW-GIB would be one of the better deals if in need of some SC's. 120SC return and 4500 points for a WP. Of course, the low season doesn't come around again until November this year

Dave Noble

I have flown on GB airways a few times and have always received points and Status Credits for them.

Dave

Aisle Seat H

Cheers Dave.

Am as a consequence going to be going off to Venice on hols. in a few months in J for UKP£190 all in ! Pretty darn cheap for the cabin plus 60 SCs.

And fares available for the whole rest of '05 (a little more expensive in peak perods obviously).

And anyone thinking of doing a mileage run out of London/Europe - the return J fare from Gatwick to Gibraltar for e.g., which is over 1000 miles, is UKP£219.40 all in - cheapest way I know to earn 120 SCs ! (+/- AUS$4.5 per SC if my calculations are correct !)