Geoffm From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2004, 2111 posts, RR: 7 Reply 3, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 10 hours ago) and read 1081 times:
BA only give 25% of miles flown for economy fare classes, except the highest class(es) (ie full economy fare), in which case you would have paid probably well over CA$3000 - which, I assume, you didn't?
Kevin From Canada, joined Dec 2000, 1129 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 10 hours ago) and read 1079 times:
Looks like they are stingy.
One more question:
My membership expires in November. What happens to my miles? Do I have to use them before my membership expires or they get transfered to my new membership? How do I renew the membership?
Warren747sp From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 1132 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 4 hours ago) and read 1030 times:
IS that true you can not earn AA miles on BA trans-Atlantic flights?
Kevin From Canada, joined Dec 2000, 1129 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (8 years 8 months 1 week 3 hours ago) and read 1022 times:
Warren747 SP:
AA is a member of Oneworld as is Cathay Pacific. If you are a member of AA FFP, but your Transatlantic flight is with BA you will earn only 25% of the mileage. That is what happened to me on the Cathay transpacific.
Sad , but true.
JOUY31 From France, joined May 2003, 446 posts, RR: 11 Reply 7, posted (8 years 8 months 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 989 times:
Kevin, what happened to you was probably that you were on a coach discounted fare (ie not a Y, B or H fare class), where in the BA Executive Club you earn only 25% of miles. That is why I was enquiring about the fare class of your ticket (Y, B, H, A, ...) not the class of service (coach, business, first)
The point Warren747sp raised is another one. You cannot earn AA miles when flying BA between the US and the UK, nor can you earn BA miles when flying AA on the same routes for any fare class or any class of service. This is not the case for transatlantic flights between the UK and countries other than the US.
FlightLover From Moldova, joined Mar 2004, 338 posts, RR: 10 Reply 8, posted (8 years 8 months 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 964 times:
I find these inter-airline arrangements in OneWorld very strange. A similar thing happened to me in January when I took BA for a transatlantic flight IAD-LHR-OTP-LHR-IAD. I only got about 2500 miles for the entire flight when the actual number of miles was around 10000 (25%). So I said I will not fly them again and cancelled my BA membership. I am still an AA frequent flier but they don't have these weird rule of giving only 25% of the actual miles flown on in cheap economy classes.
Regarding the question that was asked earlier as JOUY31 said: you can't earn miles on Transatlantic flights on AA if the flight is operated by BA and vice-versa.
Geoffm From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2004, 2111 posts, RR: 7 Reply 9, posted (8 years 8 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 933 times:
The fact that you're flying a partner airline doesn't affect whether you get 25% of miles or not, since on all my BA flights (LHR-AND CURRENT: Denver - International (DEN / KDEN), USA - Colorado">DEN being the longest) I still only got 25%. As has already been mentioned by myself and others, it depends purely on the fare class.
Your membership should be renewed automatically, but you lose some of your miles. Again, BA being stingy. Compare to CO where you keep your miles for years AND you earn 100% miles per flight regardless of fare class (some minor exceptions). I've actually flown less miles with CO yet earnt more upgrades.
ANstar From Netherlands, joined Nov 2003, 4845 posts, RR: 6 Reply 10, posted (8 years 8 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 932 times:
Ba look after their premium pax. Hence why the program is called the executive club. They offer 25% miles on economy tickets with partners AND all their partners offer 25% on BA flights.
QF only give you 25% on disc BA now too.
Flightlover, AA do have lower earning thresholds also, except with AA, some flights are completely void of earning miles ie you get 0% and some you get 50%
DTManiac From Germany, joined Aug 2004, 689 posts, RR: 16 Reply 11, posted (8 years 8 months 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 840 times:
Hello,
I have got a Qantas frequent flyer membership and I will spend half a year in the US next year. What about miles when I fly on AA. Do I get the full miles or do Qantas and AA have similar regulations. Is there something special I should now about earning miles on AA?
ChrisZRH From Switzerland, joined May 2004, 423 posts, RR: 9 Reply 12, posted (8 years 8 months 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 812 times:
WHAT??? you don't get miles flying with partner airlines in the same alliance?!?! i'm Swiss FFP member and i get full miles on all AA, CX flights and their not even in an alliance together!
this is really funny
Jakob77 From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2004, 210 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (8 years 8 months 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 780 times:
Just as with other FFPs, your tickets need to be in certain fare classes in order to be able to earn miles. BA Executive Club is more restrictive where all discount Y tickets earn only 25% regardless of which oneworld airline you fly on. oneworld FFPs are generally more restrictive in terms of earning miles on cheap discount Y fares relative to say * FFPs.
JOUY31 From France, joined May 2003, 446 posts, RR: 11 Reply 14, posted (8 years 8 months 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 756 times:
ChrisZRH,
The situation with BA and AA regarding mileage accrual on US-UK flights is not standard practice within airlines alliances. It is linked to the current state of agreements between the US and the British government.
The issue of poor mileage accrual in the BA Executive Club is different. You get only 25% of standard mileage and you get NO tier point (the equivalent of status miles or qualifying miles in other frequent flyer programmes). So you never get elite status on BA if you fly in discounted coach (ie non Y, B or H fares for BA flights)
FLVILLA From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2004, 394 posts, RR: 3 Reply 17, posted (8 years 8 months 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 734 times:
I too have been caught out by this arrangement when I was traveling from TPA-LGW return trying to use my AA card but the gate agent made it clear that I would'nt get anything.
But it does set BA in a much different league to every other airline, for example I'm VS silver(going for gold soon ) and every time I fly VS there are loads of others with silver, it is so easy to get it's almost worthless. But whenever I see a BA Silver or even Gold card member, then that guy is the real deal, top high flying EXECUTIVE which makes it an exclusive club and is one good reason for BA doing pretty well in it's premium classes as there most of the time all exec members.
I hope in life i can work to live, not live to work
Geoffm From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2004, 2111 posts, RR: 7 Reply 18, posted (8 years 8 months 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 706 times:
DTManiac, you can, by reading the fare rules.
For Expedia.co.uk, you first select the flight you want, click "choose this flight", then under (3) click on "Read an overview of all the rules and restrictions applicable to this fare". That'll get you a display something like this:
BRSEWR-CO 21SEP04 *RULE DISPLAY* TARIFF 0001 RULE 2170
* ADD APPLICABLE TAX * FED INSP FEES *
-FARE BASIS GBP NUC PTC FT GI
DAP3W R 3567.00 6540.84 ADT NL AT
DAP3W R 3567.00 6540.84 CNN NL AT
DAP3W/IN90 R 356.00 654.08 INF NL AT
DAP3W R 3567.00 6540.84 INS NL AT
DAP3W R 3567.00 6540.84 UNN NL AT
BOOKING CODES D
That D you see there is a business class fare. For the same flight in economy I got an L. By selecting "business" and "avoid most change penalties" I get a J.
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) and every time I fly VS there are loads of others with silver, it is so easy to get it's almost worthless. But whenever I see a BA Silver or even Gold card member, then that guy is the real deal, top high flying EXECUTIVE which makes it an exclusive club and is one good reason for BA doing pretty well in it's premium classes as there most of the time all exec members.
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