Reply To: Cost for multi-carrier reward flights

[nathanheywood@hotmail.com]

So, BA sent me a ‘please contact us regarding your booking’ email at 12:27 today and, after much holding and back and forth their side, 2 hours later the outcome presented a choice:

a) process the booking for £80.30 and 238,500 avios (MNL-SYD-CHC(Qantas), CHC-NAN-SIN (Fijian), all in J)
or
b) the tickets expire and go back into the pool.

Not much of a choice.

Given that the original plan of the above itinerary linking to a SIN-LHR flight on the multi-partner do-dah couldn’t be executed by the agent, I have ended up paying 358,500 avios as opposed to 200,000.

BA IT be damned!