{"id":24366,"date":"2025-07-06T10:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T09:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=24366"},"modified":"2025-07-06T14:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T13:33:52","slug":"finally-ba-and-china-southern-opens-reciprocal-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2025\/07\/06\/finally-ba-and-china-southern-opens-reciprocal-redemption\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally: BA and China Southern opens reciprocal redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

British Airways and China Southern actually signed a bilateral partnership agreement quite <\/em>some time ago, and back then, many people saw it as a sign that China Southern might eventually join Oneworld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, due to the pandemic and other delays, not much came of it. The only notable update came in 2023, when the two airlines finally launched reciprocal mileage accrual – but based on tons of user reports, even that often fails to post correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, here comes the real good news: award redemptions are finally live! I haven\u2019t seen any official announcement yet, so this might well be the first post about it on the Internet. Huge thanks to our reader \u00a9 for the tip-off yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s start with redeeming Avios for China Southern flights. Thankfully, the BA website is usually functional so you can just search directly.<\/p>\n\n\n

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As for the redemption chart, it looks like they\u2019re using the same one as Cathay Pacific:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flight Distance (miles)<\/th>Economy<\/th>Business<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
1\u2013650<\/td>9,750<\/td>20,800<\/td><\/tr>
651\u20131150<\/td>12,000<\/td>30,000<\/td><\/tr>
1151\u20132000<\/td>14,300<\/td>32,500<\/td><\/tr>
2001\u20133000<\/td>15,600<\/td>46,500<\/td><\/tr>
3001\u20134000<\/td>20,750<\/td>62,000<\/td><\/tr>
4001\u20135500<\/td>25,750<\/td>77,250<\/td><\/tr>
5501\u20136500<\/td>31,000<\/td>92,750<\/td><\/tr>
6501\u20137000<\/td>36,250<\/td>108,250<\/td><\/tr>
7000+<\/td>51,500<\/td>154,500<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But honestly, you can probably ignore the business class column for now, as nobody\u2019s seen a single China Southern business class award ticket show up yet. Taxes and surcharges seem to be on par with what China Southern charges in their own program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The overall value isn’t great, with BA having undergone major devaluation in its Asia redemption over the last years and all sweet spots have pretty much disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China’s domestic flights are usually cheap-ish so BA is adding very little here unlike what Virgin offers<\/a>. If you need to travel between say China and Japan, which have very popular routes, the cost still seems semi-decent.<\/p>\n\n\n

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If business class seats ever open up, 77,250 Avios or 92,750 Avios for a one-way between Europe and China isn’t bad either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, flipping the perspective, redeeming China Southern miles for British Airways flights may actually be the more exciting option. You can find their partner redemption chart here<\/a> (in Chinese), which is zone-based.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of business class, here’s what it costs for a one-way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n