Hey - I was playing around with an upcoming trip on travelocity, and noticed British European offered codeshare flights on Air France metal.

If I fly on Air France Metal, but with on a British European, what are my chances of getting Air France miles (or, really what I want, Delta miles)?

Any experience with this?

I think your chances are good: no direct experience with the scenario you are looking at, but with the Alitalia MilleMiglia programme (which, for reasons to complicated to go into now is the one I'm collecting my SkyTeam miles into) the terms and conditions of the programme specifically allow collection of miles on SkyTeam partner codeshare flights, as long as the flight number shows the partner prefix.

Also, if you look on p. 35 of the SkyMiles member guide, you'll see that for many of the partner airlines it is indicated that no credit will be given for code-shared flights: this wording is absent on the entries for the SkyTeam partner airlines.

So, basically, if this codeshare has an AF flight number, I think you're in luck.

But, I think Milesjamie is referring to flying on a British European marketed Air France operated flight. My understanding is that British European does not participate in the SkyMiles program for its own flights. It only does if you buy the flights using a DL (or possibly AF) flight number.

Oops: you're absolutely right - I managed completely to misread his question.

Luckily I think I managed to reach a substantively correct conclusion nonetheless