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Morning all,
Quick one (I couldn’t find similar in search but apologies for duplicating if I have.
BAH – LHR, CLark, Philippines, open jaw BKK LHR.
BAH confirmed as have ATOL cert.
BA Metal LHR Doha and Doha LHR
Qatar Metal for other two legs.Club World and Avios upgrade to F on the LHR Doha outbound leg.
I have received (surprisingly the same day as flight!) my bonus BAH TP for the F flight, the F upgrade TP and the flight TP for Doha Clark route.
Total BAH spend was £5k give or take so was expecting 5000 TP ish plus 1,600 bonus.
Gets me to ‘new Gold’ so can go elsewhere for a year as pointless (see what I did there) bothering to fly BA from now on. Incidentally, I wonder if they thought through people getting Gold fairly early in cycle and then having literally no incentive to carry on. GUF2 isn’t worth the extra spend and GGL is so far out of reach for mere mortals….
Anyway, the Qatar Clark flight has posted with 1,125 TP, so how does it work with multi metal inside a BAH booking?
Do they split out code share metal and then make up the rest of total BAH reward?
For example, my BKK Doha will be another 1,000 TP ish so I then get the remainder of BAH 5,000 TP as difference on return?
Also odd I have my BA 550 bonus and cabin upgrade TP posted for the LHR Doha leg but not Doha Clark. Despite already having the Doha Clark TP!
Seems an insane way of doing things if so. Not that BAC ever made sense.
Hopefully this is clear…it isn’t to me.
Thanks in advance.
I think it looks like you are conflating the points earned from flying and the points earned because it’s a BA Holiday.
If you paid £5k in total and you are the only person on the booking for the BA Holiday those 5k nTPs are totally different from those earned from flying. They’ll also post a few weeks after the trip has ended.
The nTPs from flights do not get taken from the 5,000 you’ll get from the spend.
They are additional.
As to speed of posting and ‘missing’ bonus points I think you’ll be better off not worrying until the entire trip has been completed and posted.
This may help re earning points on partners – see the bottom
https://www.britishairways.com/content/the-british-airways-club/about-tier-points/flights
Thanks for response, much appreciated.
Have read the rules several (many) times and will wait until everything completed before commenting/updating further BUT it’s the difference to previous experience which is odd.
This is a BAH with £5k total spend (and yes, only me travelling) so should give me 5,000 nTP which then should post after my return +14 days ish should it not? Plus the 4* bonus of 1,600 nTP on top.
I did an £12.5k BAH a month or so ago to Australia, flying Qatar metal all the way, and that’s exactly how it worked. One 12,500 nTP posting to my BAC in one transaction stating ‘BA Holidays Reward’ plus 4* 550 nTP for 4 F sectors 10 days after I landed. Simple.
The difference this time is that it’s already posted one random Qatar flight nTP (looks like 50% of 3,300 miles at 1,125 nTP) mid trip before I completed the BAH – hence I don’t believe am conflating. It’s an identical scenario to two previous BAH under nTP rules but a different posting result – with a BAH you shouldn’t receive flight only nTP, and definitely not for a single sector? The nTP Bonus is marked as BA Holidays Flight but Qatar is ‘Flight’. It may be I accidentally received a bonus somehow :-)?
Hence this query post. Apologies if I misunderstood.
@rogernet – what you say is correct – you should only receive nTP for the cash cost of the holiday plus any sector/cabin bonuses but not anything nTP for each individual flight so those you have received for a QR flight are a random error/windfall and not intended.
One precision is that receiving an ATOL certificate doesn’t necessary confirm an eligible BAH for tier points purposes, although yours seems to be working correctly.
@rogernet – what you say is correct – you should only receive nTP for the cash cost of the holiday plus any sector/cabin bonuses but not anything nTP for each individual flight so those you have received for a QR flight are a random error/windfall and not intended.
One precision is that receiving an ATOL certificate doesn’t necessary confirm an eligible BAH for tier points purposes, although yours seems to be working correctly.
Thanks – maybe I am not going mad after all!
It’s definitely a BAH as had text and bonus is labelled BAH. Perhaps it’s an error and will be taken back off me!
Can’t post images directly here or I would upload screengrabs from BAC.
Will update when return in a week as to next posting.
@rogernet – I’m sure you have a BAH based on the nTP you are getting, but what is being experienced by quite a few people is that there can be a difference between a BAH and a BAH that is eligible for the (more generous) spend based nTP.
@rogernet – I’m sure you have a BAH based on the nTP you are getting, but what is being experienced by quite a few people is that there can be a difference between a BAH and a BAH that is eligible for the (more generous) spend based nTP.
Interesting – so how does one know/differentiate?!
I booked after the changeover date so should all be full nTPs regime. This was booked after the Aus trip and that was all Qatar metal.
The whole thing is a cluster expletive deleted.
I was musing and looking at how much I would have to now spend BA for trips compared with shopping round and the reward for doing so.
A few Avios bonuses are worth less than 14 days card spend so pointless and GUF points gates mean additional £10k spend (£7.5k if I bother to keep BA BAP Amex).
Is that what BA envisaged, get Gold, go elsewhere haha.
“No additional tier points will be earned for the flight element of the holiday package.”
From Ts and Cs so must be a mistake. I assume they will take them back off me haha
“No additional tier points will be earned for the flight element of the holiday package.”
From Ts and Cs so must be a mistake. I assume they will take them back off me haha
Yes, I said you received the QR TPs in error, and it’s extremely unlikely those windfall TPs will be removed. It’s the same as people getting TPs/Avios on redemption flights after a rerouting; it’s a ticket endorsement error.
“No additional tier points will be earned for the flight element of the holiday package.”
From Ts and Cs so must be a mistake. I assume they will take them back off me haha
Yes, I said you received the QR TPs in error, and it’s extremely unlikely those windfall TPs will be removed. It’s the same as people getting TPs/Avios on redemption flights after a rerouting; it’s a ticket endorsement error.
A BA IT failure in my favour? Wonders will never cease.
Will report once BAH nTPs hit.
@rogernet don’t trust that just because you get nice BAH messages, the payment was made to BAH etc that it is, for the puropose of earning fat juicy nTPs, actually a BAH. It feels like the crucial point is whether you have a price breakdown or just a single figure.
As an extra ‘data’ point, I had a BAH which included an F flight DOH to DXB on a QR flight code. Although the cost of that was included in the BAH price (for which I received the BAH nTPs) there was no bonus paid on the QR-coded flight because it wasn’t ‘marketed’ by BA, i.e. (according to BA), it didn’t have a BA flight code.
@Wanderlost – that eligibility requirement for bonus TPs is very clearly stated.
A Qualifying Flight is a single leg of a journey booked under a British Airways (BA) flight number in the promotional period, 30 December 2024 – 31 December 2025, for travel from 1 April 2025. Qualifying Flights can be operated by British Airways or any of our partner airlines as defined in clause 11(b) of the Terms and Conditions (below).
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