British Airways is a Oneworld
alliance partner of Cathay Pacific and, at times, has access to more
award space on Cathay Pacific than Alaska Airlines.
Delta agents especially are a problem because they don't know who their
partners are much of the time, let alone how to look for
award space (Skyteam is making progress but isn't as normalized in what booking codes to use for
award space across the different members of the
alliance as Star and oneworld are).