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Hi All,
I’m looking to book a BA Holidays package, departing from Ireland. Crediting the flights of the package to Aer Lingus would be more beneficial to us, especially after the recent BA changes.
I’ve never done a BA Holidays product but I wanted to check I can still edit the frequent flyer number/programme on the flights part of the booking?
Thanks in advance for anyone’s help.
Open the BA webpage, find your holiday, etc. You are then asked to enter your name and loyalty program, doesn’t need to be BA.
If you are already logged in, it will apply your BA loyalty number. SO make sure you are logged out (you can always change your details later or before the flight but best for what you want is simply to book the holiday without logging in).
Has there been any clarification on how BAH will credit TPs to other programmes under the new system?
Has there been any clarification on how BAH will credit TPs to other programmes under the new system?
The new system for BA does not affect how other airlines loyalty programs credit TP. BAH is just like another travel agent.
The only question would be how this will work for other earning based programs like IB (will they be able to see the value of the flight or will the use their distance based table? What if you have a mix of BA and other airlines?)
Has there been any clarification on how BAH will credit TPs to other programmes under the new system?
Does that need clarification and won’t the accrual rate be determined by the relevant scheme rather than BA(H)?
Any TP or Avios/points for a BAH earned in another scheme will also obviously only relate to the flights.
What I meant was, will the flight element be separated from hotels and cars, and that amount credited to the partner programme? And if so, that would mean that it’s not possible to know how many TPs would be earned until after the trip was taken, making it difficult to plan for earning or retaining status.
Obviously it was easier to calculate when Taps were awarded solely on the flight component.
What I meant was, will the flight element be separated from hotels and cars, and that amount credited to the partner programme? And if so, that would mean that it’s not possible to know how many TPs would be earned until after the trip was taken, making it difficult to plan for earning or retaining status.
Obviously it was easier to calculate when Taps were awarded solely on the flight component.
Only The flight element will be credited in other partner programs (excl. IB) these presumably will credit in the usual way as CX/RJ etc have not and still will not see the fare data so will credit as per their distance based schemes as previously. The question that remains is that IB now sees the fare data so how will IB credit BA Hols packages, based on the cost of the package or just the distance based awards for flights only in the package, not sure if anyone has done it yet?
Just as a data point, I had MAN-LHR-MAN in economy as part of a recent BAH credit as 75 TPs each way. I’m assuming that means the value applied to each sector was £75, though the overall price of the package suggested that it was actually much lower than that. But I had no way of knowing that until the TPs actually posted, so it would be a bit hit and miss in terms of planning if I were crediting them to another scheme.
The rest of the BAH isn’t going to be taken until later this year, so again I don’t know what will post in terms on the remaining flights and car hire.
The 75 tps sound like they are the current bonus amounts for economy,not anything related to the spend related holiday tps – assume you won’t get those until all elements of the holiday are completed?
That may well be the case, although on previous BAH’s the TPs for the flights always posted 2/3 days after actually taking the flight, regardless of the point in the holiday at which they fell. Again this begs questions – if you have a BAH which straddles 2 collection years, which year do the TPs get allocated to? Previously you could be in the position of earning half in the old year and half in the new, but if they’re all going to be awarded at the end, do they all count for the new earning year?
I think this thread is getting confused because the original question is a good one.
If you book BA Hols with a BA flight, your flight is somehow coded so that NO tier points are awarded, although you do get Avios and, as noted above, the bonus points currently on offer.
Instead, BAH gives you a pile of TP when you return.
What we don’t know is this.
If you change the FF number in your flight to Aer Lingus, Qatar etc, do you earn two lots of tier points – one lot in Aer Lingus from the flight and one lot in BA Club sent by BAH?
(Of course, arguably its pointless because why would you be chasing status in two programmes?)
Well the original question was whether the FF number could be changed in the booking, which was answered in the 2nd post. I haven’t seen anything to say that these new-style TPs can definitely be credited to other programmes, or what the earning rate would be (as per BA, or as per the individual airline). So it would be helpful to know what BA’s intentions are in this respect!
*You might be chasing 2 statuses to get past the computers in the LHR lounges, lol.
Well the original question was whether the FF number could be changed in the booking, which was answered in the 2nd post. I haven’t seen anything to say that these new-style TPs can definitely be credited to other programmes, or what the earning rate would be (as per BA, or as per the individual airline). So it would be helpful to know what BA’s intentions are in this respect!
*You might be chasing 2 statuses to get past the computers in the LHR lounges, lol.
When you credit to an airlines programme it’s their rules that apply no matter how you bought the ticket or whose plane you actually flew on.
So even if you bought via BA and credit to EI the credit is based on EIs rules.
I think this thread is getting confused because the original question is a good one.
If you book BA Hols with a BA flight, your flight is somehow coded so that NO tier points are awarded, although you do get Avios and, as noted above, the bonus points currently on offer.
Instead, BAH gives you a pile of TP when you return.
What we don’t know is this.
If you change the FF number in your flight to Aer Lingus, Qatar etc, do you earn two lots of tier points – one lot in Aer Lingus from the flight and one lot in BA Club sent by BAH?
(Of course, arguably its pointless because why would you be chasing status in two programmes?)
If a BAH flight is coded in the manner you suggest, this would usually be via an endorsement/restriction on the e-ticket in the same way as rerouted reward flights rebooked into a revenue fare bucket should be and block TP/Avios earning. However, we all know that sometimes these tickets aren’t correctly reissued resulting in a windfall. However, if done correctly it ought to mean that TP (or equivalent) wouldn’t be earned in any OW programme.
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