Aer Lingus Travel Award Bonus (TAB)

As I travel to Ireland quite regularly I joined the Aer Lingus Travel Awards Bonus(TAB) scheme for frequent fliers. This worked okay and when you join you get a bonus 200pts for your first five flights after joining. A problem arose though, when I flew to Australia with British Airways and internally within Australia with Quantas, as Aer Lingus are in the One World Alliance with British Airways and Quantas, I was looking forward to claiming credit for these flights on my TAB account. I was assured at the Aer Lingus desk that all my points had been added on, but their statements are only posted quarterly, so it was 3 months later that I realised that the ...