£266 Los Angeles returns available on British Airways in the New Year

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• Shane says:

  24 Jul24 July 05:14

  Does the 25% miles credit apply to Alaska economy flights also? I normally credit those to BA but maybe I shouldn’t.

• Jonathan says:

  24 Jul24 July 06:07

  If you’re flying on one of these tickets since the devaluation it’s now 25% avios credit with BA:

  H, Q, L, V, K, G, T, R, U

  B and M, whilst still not flexible tickets give 50%.

  http://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/executive-club/collecting-avios/flights

  • Jonathan says:

    24 Jul24 July 06:08

    Meant to reply to the first message – this is for Alaska airlines.

• Aliks says:

  24 Jul24 July 06:20

  When you say “credit the miles to AA” – how does this work?

  Do you have to make the booking through AA to do this?

  If you book through BA on BA metal is there a way to earn AA miles?
  If you book through Amex or any other OTA onto a BA flight, can you choose which points you earn? and finally, can you change the points allocation retrospectively from BA to AA?

  • Sandgrounder says:

    24 Jul24 July 06:28

    You nust need to add the correct frequent flyer number to the booking. This can be changed as late as in the airport before you start your journey. You can generally earn frequent flyer miles regardless of who you booked with. You can claim miles for a period if you did not apply a number to the booking, but once credited you generally cannot change the scheme chosen.

  • Rob says:

    24 Jul24 July 08:15

    Open an AA AAdvantage account and put that number in your booking instead of your BA number.

    You can credit a BA flight to ANY of the 15 or so oneworld frequent flyer programmes, plus Alaska Air.

    You can retrospectively change it after booking, as long as it is before departure. Whatever number is on your boarding pass is the account where the miles will go.

    • Danksy says:

      24 Jul24 July 11:32

      Am i missing something here? If you book the BA flight but credit to AA, how will the status of BA (in my case silver) be applied?

      • Rob says:

        24 Jul24 July 12:14

        That’s not what I meant. What I meant is, if you fly AA but credit to BA you get your BA tier status bonus.

        Obviously if you credit to AA you don’t. However, if you have BA status, there is no point crediting to AA because the 50% or 100% bonus – which is based on the FULL mileage – pretty much evens it out.

        • James67 says:

          24 Jul24 July 16:18

          Not to mention the AA devaluation most expect is becoming ever closer so crediting to AA may only be a good idea for those who already have a decent miles balance or those who can generate one quickly, and can burn in the short term.

• Scott says:

  24 Jul24 July 06:49

  I’ve got an ex-OSL flight to JFK with BA and back to LHR with AA in October that cost me £260ish. Getting around 9300 Avios back as a Gold member.
  There are some flights going for around £200 at present.

  At least with CPH, it’s only 4500 Avios for a redemption positioning flight, I think, compared to 7500 for OSL.

  • Scott says:

    24 Jul24 July 06:53

    9736 Avios rather than 9300 🙂

    Not quite the 14-15000 I got last time, before the devaluation.

  • James67 says:

    24 Jul24 July 16:21

    …and quite a few thousand more for the rest of us British passengers BA treats like second class citizens just because we live outside the south east.

• Globetrotter7 says:

  24 Jul24 July 07:32

  Hmmm… So very tempting!

• Jovan says:

  24 Jul24 July 07:49

  I think you have typo – not sure how one will earn additional AA miles with BA status.

  • rich says:

    24 Jul24 July 11:24

    Yes surely there is no 50% or 100% bonus for ba status when crediti

  • rich says:

    24 Jul24 July 11:27

    Yes surely there is no bonus for crediting to AA when status is held with ba

• Scott says:

  24 Jul24 July 07:53

  I did OSL-LHR-SFO and then SNA-DFW-LHR-ARN back in March for £260-£280 and got (gold 100% bonus):

  OSL-LHR 1446
  LHR-SFO 10716
  SNA-DFW 2410
  DFW-LHR 9494
  LHR-ARN 1780
  Total = 25846 Avios (less 7500 Avios to get to OSL) = 18346 Avios earned

  (Caught a Norwegian flight to OSL from ARN and then repeated this run before finishing in London)

  LHR-ARN 1780

  • Polly says:

    24 Jul24 July 08:07

    It’s a shame we have to work so hard at regaining avios theses days, if not Gold. But this is a fab fare if someone wants to take kids etc to LA. Even if not Gold, it’s a great price. My sis in Dub has been advised already about this offer this morning.

• Chris says:

  24 Jul24 July 07:53

  I booked BRU to YUL for £266 each next May. First economy ticket purchase in years 🙂 but at that price can’t justify using points.

  • Matt says:

    24 Jul24 July 09:47

    Is this with BA? Got any details? I have travel to YYZ next May…

    • Matt says:

      24 Jul24 July 09:49

      Sorry, ignore me, found it on Google Flights. Thanks for the heads up.

  • James67 says:

    24 Jul24 July 16:28

    It may not be as bad as you fear. I recent flew EY EDI-AUH-BKK in Y after booking a £316 return. It was my first longhaul Y for a decade. Got off the plane feeling in better shape than I have rone flying to se Asia in CW. Despite that, I still upgraded AUH-EDI on the return.

    • Polly says:

      24 Jul24 July 18:44

      Depends which airline you fly Y on. You were NOT in BA Y, I guess…

      • James67 says:

        24 Jul24 July 19:07

        No, Etihad, and I was dreading it as it’s universally trashed on skytrax but it was really ok for daytime flight. I must have nodded off after dinner AUH to BKK too because next thing I remember was being offered pain au chocolat for breakfast!

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