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This year (1st April onwards) I will probably do 50 segments on OW flights (including Vueling). If I understand correctly, with Club IB (current status Plata due Iberia CC), after 40 segments, I will be IB Gold = BA Silver/OW Sapphire and my Vueling flights will count. If I credit to RJ then after 46 segments (excluding Vueling???) I will be Platinum Hawk = BA Gold/OW Emerald.
I’m looking for a pros and cons for each option please? Do I earn Avios (or convertible points if crediting to RJ?). The real RJ benefits are of course only on the carrier but I could use the upgrade for a trip to the far east…? Advice appreciated.
As Vuelling isn’t a OW airline it’s very unlikely that a flight operated by them would qualify towards RJ status. I can’t say for certain as their website isn’t that clear to me when I read it.
RJ has its own points currency. These are not convertible to avios and also have a different value proposition to avios.
@indiacpapa Take a look at this on FT
VY may have counted for status with IB before the recent IB changes, but whether it still does or not is unclear, there seems to have been a slightly change in the phrasing of the relevant Ts & Cs. Not suggestion that it counts for RJ at all.
It will all depend on what you value most highly – the status benefits (RJ) or collecting an easier to use currency (IB for Avios)
I will probably do 50 segments on OW flights (including Vueling)
It’s still a known unknown if Vueling Will be included (they are not OW).
The wording of the Spanish terms implies that they are, but not in a way which I’m confident about. A Spanish miles site said they had reached out to Iberia for confirmation, but there has been no response to that.
Actually, I’ve just flown a Vueling flight booked with Vueling, with my IB FF number – flight cost less taxes plus seat fee was 87.15, I received 88 elite points.
I did NOT receive flight credit. So from this sample of one, Vueling flights do not count as a segment, at least when booked with Vueling.
Yes, REALLY close to my Plata card….
Closer than with BAC though …
There’s also a long thread on FT specifically about the new IB scheme. I can’t get my head around it but that may be because I don’t really have any incentive to do so for at least another 12 months, by which time various schemes may well have changed their terms again!
Warning: Vueling/Level flights DO NOT count toward RJ segments! Only Iberia metal & Iberia operated by Air Nostrum/Iberia Express. So with the last mentioned no I2 flights, only IB.
For Iberia status it’s only Iberia/Iberia Express flights that count – other Oneworld flights don’t count for status by number of flights. For RJ it’s any Oneworld flight as far as I know, so excluding Vueling or Aer Lingus.
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