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When checking in for a flight on Iberia today, I was told that I would only get my free extra bag as BA Gold if they changed the link in my booking from my Iberia account to my my BA Gold account. I want to gain status with Iberia as quickly as possible, so I paid for the extra bag. It looks as though linking all my flights to Iberia rather than BA is going to be more expensive than I thought.
Were Iberia correct? And will the same thing apply happen if I take a BA flight linked to my Iberia account?
I expect that lots of other people have asked this, but I would be most grateful if anyone can help.
You should have kept your BA FF on the booking until AFTER check in/lounge entry. At that point, change your booking to IB FF. Do this for all your flights until you have IB status.
So have you not been able to select seats for free on your IB bookings?
This quagmire will only get worse IMHO. BA don’t want to close one “loophole” (TP runs, etc.) only to create more. Similarly other airlines don’t want to join the game.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey. Not really what BA went for.. 🤔
When checking in for a flight on Iberia today, I was told that I would only get my free extra bag as BA Gold if they changed the link in my booking from my Iberia account to my my BA Gold account. I want to gain status with Iberia as quickly as possible, so I paid for the extra bag. It looks as though linking all my flights to Iberia rather than BA is going to be more expensive than I thought.
Were Iberia correct? And will the same thing apply happen if I take a BA flight linked to my Iberia account?
I expect that lots of other people have asked this, but I would be most grateful if anyone can help.
Yes, Iberia was entirely correct. Exactly the same issue as on another thread re lounge access in this situation. You need to play your cards right if you are hoping to get certain benefits from different schemes at different times. As alluded to elsewhere, you are trying to have it off with two partners on the same day, something that doesn’t always work in many aspects of life…
As alluded to elsewhere, you are trying to have it off with two partners on the same day, something that doesn’t always work in many aspects of life…
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What you really mean is that it doesn’t always work when they know about each other!
You should have kept your BA FF on the booking until AFTER check in/lounge entry. At that point, change your booking to IB FF. Do this for all your flights until you have IB status.
I don’t know if it happens or will happen in the future with BA/IB, but a friend did something similar (don’t recall which airlines or which alliance), got caught at the gate and forced to either pay for the bag or change his FFP back. If they could have, they might have retrospectively charged him for lounge entry too..
I don’t know if it happens or will happen in the future with BA/IB, but a friend did something similar (don’t recall which airlines or which alliance), got caught at the gate and forced to either pay for the bag or change his FFP back. If they could have, they might have retrospectively charged him for lounge entry too..
Well you can’t retrospectively charge for lounge access (not in UK law anyway).
But it seems airlines are getting more serious about “loyalty”. Whilst BA have set the bar too high IMHO, being about to get Silver so easily (esp via BAH) was silly. At £30pp paid lounge entry (worse than BA lounge), we can easily do 10 BA lounge visits each year (5 trips) – that’s 10x£30×2 = £600. A lot of benefit if you can make Silver with £1-£2k of spend.
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