Which 36 airlines can you earn Avios on?

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• Sussex bantam says:

  19 Jul19 July 05:08

  Although my flight on Oman hasn’t credited automatically from the beginning of the month

• Gordon says:

  19 Jul19 July 08:05

  I have been emailing BA for several months to have Avios credited for a Latem flight last year, not one reply to my request, I’ve given up, sometimes it’s just not worth the time and effort.

  • Occasional Ranter says:

    19 Jul19 July 12:08

    Also here just to say: don’t expect Latam flights to credit. BA and Latam operating like some Chuckle Brothers tribute act.

    • Reece says:

      19 Jul19 July 14:24

      “To me, to you!”

      • Nico says:

        19 Jul19 July 15:49

        Same problem here for latam, flights from last year never credited

• Robert says:

  19 Jul19 July 08:41

  Do they all earn tier points?

  • daveinitalia says:

    19 Jul19 July 09:05

    On BA the only airlines that earn tier points are oneworld flights and AC (which means Aer Lingus in this article)

• Graham Walsh says:

  19 Jul19 July 08:45

  In the Aer Lingus lounge last week in T2 in DUB and the lady behind the desk said to the guy in front of me, sorry we’re not part of oneworld so you can’t access the lounge. Not sure which airline he was trying to gain access with. Then asked about priority pass. Nope. Then on the counter it’s printed out Aer Lingus welcomes BA Silver and Gold. And in I go.

  I feel they just make tte rules up every day.

  • AJA says:

    19 Jul19 July 08:52

    TBF sounds like the person in front was trying to gain access with OW status that wasn’t via BAC.

  • ADS says:

    19 Jul19 July 11:10

    the BA lounge access is presumably due to both EI and BA being owned by IAG [not sure why IB are excluded]

    it isn’t related to OW

  • BlairWaldorfSalad says:

    19 Jul19 July 11:21

    I won’t cry tears for him as the refurbished Dublin Airport T2 lounge is next door to the Aer Lingus one and takes Priority Pass.

    Heathrow is Aer Lingus’s flagship lounge anyway. The Dublin one has p**s poor food selection. What they have is good, it’s just minimal. If in Dublin on an early 4am arrival from the US, I sit like a zombie in the Aer Lingus lounge till 04.30 when the T1 DAA lounge opens. That lounge has hot food galore at breakfast. Meanwhile Aer Lingus has fruit, yogurt and bread.

    • Graham Walsh says:

      19 Jul19 July 11:36

      Good to know, never managed to get into the DAA T1 Lounge, last time I tried with PP, they said sorry full (with the family). Maybe I’ll try next time when I’m on my own.

    • W says:

      19 Jul19 July 18:39

      Barista coffee service is now available on request in the EI lounge at LHR. I tried it last week not bad at all.
      I rarely get to the EI Dublin lounge maybe once or twice a year though hear it suffers from chronic overcrowding.

• daveinitalia says:

  19 Jul19 July 09:10

  When have we being able to collect Avios on Air Canada, Icelandair, LOT and whoever VC are?

  Plus S7 are no longer in the alliance but they’re still in the image you posted with the members tailfins.

  • ChrisBCN says:

    19 Jul19 July 09:59

    At least two of these points are answered in the article.

• daveinitalia says:

  19 Jul19 July 09:36

  I asked OpenAI to give a rating of this article, this was the reply:
  5 / 10

  Why not higher?
  • The headline number (“36 airlines”) is inflated unless you count subsidiaries and partners very creatively.
  • Several data points are already out-of-date (China Southern accrual, S7 suspension, Fiji entry date) or lack the vital caveats that determine whether Avios actually credit.
  • Practical information a reader really needs – booking-class tables, tier-point eligibility, codeshare quirks – is absent.

  Why not lower?
  • It’s still a handy reminder that Avios earning extends well beyond oneworld.
  • The writing is clear and accessible, and the inclusion of Aer Lingus exceptions shows an attempt at nuance.
  • With a quick fact-check and a structured table the piece could be rescued easily, so the core concept is sound.

  Overall: useful idea, rushed execution.

  • Rob says:

    19 Jul19 July 10:45

    The Fiji entry date is correct.

    Subsidiaries are, legally, separate airlines with their own IATA codes.

    S7 accrual is still possible by QAPC as it clearly stated.

    You can literally see China Southern is still an earn partner by clicking the BA link at the bottom.

    Don’t want to suggest that you are making bad life choices but trusting AI over what we write (or, more worryingly, what you can check yourself with a single click on a link we provide) is not smart.

    • David says:

      19 Jul19 July 11:13

      AI just tells you what you want to hear.

  • Dubious says:

    19 Jul19 July 11:35

    I am not sure what point you are making, but as a counterpoint other AI tools are available…

    Ratings given as follows:
    Claude AI gives 7.5 / 10
    Chat GPT-4o mini gives 8/10
    Llama Scout 4 gives 8/10
    Claude Haiku 3.5 gives 8/10
    o4-mini gives 4/5
    Mistral Small 3 gives 4/5 overall and 4/5 on each of content quality, clarity, usefulness, accuracy, structure.

    So perhaps OpenAI is less discerning?

    Although…for full disclosure, some of these tools did rate your comment as 8/10 (albeit without any context).

• David S says:

  19 Jul19 July 10:24

  You might technically be able to earn Avios o some of these airlines but it’s next to impossible to actually buy a ticket that does this. If you buy the most flexible Economy ticket that Malaysian will sell you, it doesn’t generate a single Avios or Tier point. I don’t think it is Malaysian’s fault, I think it is BA trashing the One World Ecosystem.
  Even if I could have got any benefit, I think at the next level up, it would have been 2% of mileage flown, so a hop from KUL to PEN would generate 4 tier points.

• Lucas van den Bogaerde says:

  19 Jul19 July 11:58

  Still waiting for Cathay Pacific flights London – Hong Kong – Tokyo and Seoul – HKG – London in March to be credited to Qatar Privilege Club. It also took ages for the Sri Lanka flight from London – Colombo to get added, whereas the return flight was credited just a normal two weeks later. Something wrong with the One World system at Heathrow? It must cost the airlines quite some money dealing with all these missing Avios claims

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