British Airways has launched an interesting – and slightly risky! – promotion in association with its transatlantic partner American Airlines.
Between now and October 31st, you will receive 25% bonus Avios for any First Class or Club World / Business return flight between London and New York or Los Angeles.
Here is the catch though:
You must fly one direction on British Airways and the other direction on American Airlines.
Full details can be found here.
The offer runs until October 30th.
The reason I said that this was a ‘risky’ promotion for British Airways is that the new American Airlines business class seat is generally agreed to be substantially superior to Club World.
You can see a picture of the new AA seat above (I thought it was the 777-200 but the comments below assure me it is the 777-300 variant). I haven’t flown it myself yet (hint, hint, AA!) but the feedback is excellent.
You receive full British Airways tier points and status bonuses whether you fly on BA or AA so mixing carriers is not an issue from that point of view.
Registration IS required via this website.
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You will be getting the new 772 layout on these flights. Subs do appear though.
The picture is from the 77W
No, sorry. The picture is from the 772.
On the 77W all seats face forward in 1-2-1, not the front/rear-facing-alternating seats on the 772 in the photo.
The pic is definitely the refurbished 772 (known as 77D in the AA system) as the seats are forward/backward. The 77W all face forward and are roomier.
Sorry. Lack of attention to detail! Yes – there will be 1 x 77W and 2 x 77D on the JFK rotations.
My understanding is that B772 that replaced B77W on thr JFK-LHR is the 77D version (no first class and new business).
Great that you make some promotion for American Airlines. It’s new business class product is indeed superior to the one of British Airways (and so is its loyalty program). However, I think you have some wrong information. AA’s new business class is available on some Boeings 777-200ER and all of its Boeings 777-300ER (two slightly different versions though). And on the London-LAX and London-JFK routes, all AA flights are currently operated by the Boeing 777-300ER (which features the new business class), so there is nothing risky about it. You can read my trip report on the AA B77W on my blog: http://wp.me/p4d1XU-di2. It’s a fantastic product!
Thanks Jan. AA is not my strong point!
You’re welcome! Be sure to fly AA soon (you will be impressed). By the way, the photo is one of the Boeing 777-200ER (all seats on the Boeing 777-300ER face forward). Kind regards
Doh! I thought it was but changed the text after the comments here.
Sorry for that! I didn’t look closely enough.
I think Raffles article means it’s risky for BA since the AA product is far superior. I’m one of those who used it for the first time a few weeks ago and won’t be going back to Club World.
Has anyone been on both the 77W and 772? My flight to JFK has just been changed and I don’t know how to choose a good seat. I’ve been on the 77W as I said and know the good seats on that one but they’ve thrown backward facing seats into the 772 now which has flummoxed me! I did like backwards on the BA 747 when I tried it.
Another one I am not eligible for
AA J is excellent! just wish I could use GUFs with them…
Do codeshares count? I am flying one way on a BA operated but with AA codeshare to LAX in August and return on a BA operated flight with a BA flight number.
I couldn’t see something like that excluded in the T&Cs
It’s not very clear but I believe codeshares are included. Your problem though might be clause #14, if you bought tickets before this week:
14. Promotion cannot be used retrospectively. This promotion only applies to those who make a booking on or after 20 July 2015, for travel within the Promotional Period, and subsequently complete the outbound sector of their booking and the return sector of their booking between by 31 October 2015 inclusive.