Alitalia or Gulf Air?

I was looking at flights from LHR to Dubai.
The two most competitive deals for the dates I would fly are with Alitalia
and Gulf Air with only £4 difference.
They both fly at times convenient to me and both include a transfer of
planes in either Milan with Alitalia or Bahrain with Gulf Air.
Both airlines have been reviewed as 4 star airlines with not much inbetween
the official rating of service offered and passenger comfort.
However, the only disadvantage so far of flying Gulf Air would be that I
wouldn't get frequent flyer points that I would with Alitalia.
Do you (the reader) think it's worth flying with Alitalia for this advantage
or is there something I can expect with Gulf Air that would mean I should
forget the points and fly with them instead?

Simon

"Simon Lee" simon@lee1287.freeserve.co.uk wrote in message
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> I was looking at flights from LHR to Dubai.
> The two most competitive deals for the dates I would fly are with
> Alitalia and Gulf Air with only £4 difference.

My parents were booked to fly to Dubai with Alitalia via Milan. There was an
Alitalia strike on the day in question and they ended up being put on a
direct Emirates flight instead.

They flew back with Alitalia.

With the advantage of hindsight, they said they would have paid up to £100
more each to fly Emirates both ways for the convenience, in flight
entertainment etc.

HTH. YMMV.