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@JDB I wasn’t commenting on the double tier point issue nor was I suggesting an ATOL certificate is the ‘real’ nor indeed the only criterion but it is a big clue as I’ve never had one for a flight only booking.
No, you won’t get one for flight only (unless maybe it’s a charter flight), but if say you booked a BA flight, paid for it and the next day (I think it has to be within 24 hours) booked a car or hotel, you have a package holiday and will get an ATOL certificate but I don’t believe that although it’s a package and although it’s sold by BA, that is what we all understand by a BAH, it wouldn’t earn double TP and I don’t believe it would earn any TP in the new system. Thus, for practical purposes, it’s not a BAH even if it shares many characteristics.
The Package Travel and Linked Arrangements Regulations 2018 added a number of variants of what could or must constitute a package or LTA to adapt to changing booking patterns and I’m sure BA complies with those regulations, but the definition for earning TPs today or from 1 April is narrower than the legal definition. One thing with BA is that you wouldn’t know the cost of the individual package elements (except by extrapolation) for what they define as a real BAH.
Hmmm… this then comes back to my original question: what constitutes a BAH? If I have two bookings which, on paper, are indistinguishable from each other AND the payment was taken by BA Holidays, what exactly is it that determines whether BA treats this as a BAH from the point of view of awarding TPs across the entire spend?
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