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BA Worldwide Call Center Telephone Numbers
Hong Kong is open 9am - 5:30pm  their time is 12 hrs ahead of NY

Worldwide service center telephone numbers according to eastern time, Credit DDMS

Location                            Phone#                   Opening Time                           
US800-452-12017:30am-8pm EDT
Singapore+65-6823-20959pm-5:30am EDT
China+86 400 881 02079:00 PM-5:30 AM
Israel+972-3-606-15152am-9am EDT
Germany+49 (0)421 55 75 76 73:00 AM - 12:00 PM
UK+44-191-490-79012:30am-3pm EDT


Note that all sAAver flights available on AA.com are able to be booked on BA.  When there are many flights on one day, they may not all be listed on BA.com.  So you will have to call to book it.  Get the phone fee waved because it wasn't able to be booked on line.


NOTE: Household accounts will not allow transfers from Iberia to BA. Make sure you don't have a household account, and if you do, split it up.

NOTE: When booking, erase your Avios number when entering your passenger information. This will make it much simpler to add your AA Advantage number at a later time.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3580 on: June 09, 2015, 10:44:16 AM »
Does anyone know if i buy avios directly from ba.com do they post instantly?
Thnk you
yes close to instantly, usually within the hour
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3581 on: June 09, 2015, 10:45:16 AM »
Thank you

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3582 on: June 09, 2015, 08:34:52 PM »
I think f is always quadruple
Quadruple of y or j?
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3583 on: June 09, 2015, 08:48:22 PM »
Y
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3584 on: June 10, 2015, 12:59:11 PM »
I want to go to providences (Turks and Caicos). I was looking from MIA the flight is 4.5k but taxes are almost 100 dollars! Does that make sense? Anyway around this? A paid flight isn't much more I don't get why it's not the typical 5.60$ in taxes like majority of other flights.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3585 on: June 10, 2015, 01:11:23 PM »
I want to go to providences (Turks and Caicos). I was looking from MIA the flight is 4.5k but taxes are almost 100 dollars! Does that make sense? Anyway around this? A paid flight isn't much more I don't get why it's not the typical 5.60$ in taxes like majority of other flights.
It is not Domestic...
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3586 on: June 10, 2015, 10:37:58 PM »
Trying to book a flight and when I search I am getting the following error message.

Error
There was a problem with your request, please try again later.

Just me or is it systemwide?
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3587 on: June 10, 2015, 10:40:12 PM »
I want to go to providences (Turks and Caicos). I was looking from MIA the flight is 4.5k but taxes are almost 100 dollars! Does that make sense? Anyway around this? A paid flight isn't much more I don't get why it's not the typical 5.60$ in taxes like majority of other flights.
Cancun is the same.  International,  there are sometimes exit taxes

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3588 on: June 10, 2015, 10:40:33 PM »
Trying to book a flight and when I search I am getting the following error message.

Error
There was a problem with your request, please try again later.

Just me or is it systemwide?
It happens. I've been getting it lately. Close your browser and tryagain.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3589 on: June 10, 2015, 10:41:24 PM »

Trying to book a flight and when I search I am getting the following error message.

Error
There was a problem with your request, please try again later.

Just me or is it systemwide?
Try again with incognito, site has been giving me error messages all week.
Especially when trying to switch the date, anyone else?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3590 on: June 10, 2015, 11:36:05 PM »
Try again with incognito, site has been giving me error messages all week.
Especially when trying to switch the date, anyone else?

So annoying! Can't get around it, incognito doesn't help.

Any ideas?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3591 on: June 11, 2015, 12:17:24 AM »
So annoying! Can't get around it, incognito doesn't help.

Any ideas?
Same
Even tried on my phone and had no successes.
Absolutely hate calling them to book. What takes me 60 seconds online is usually a 40 min phone call.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3592 on: June 11, 2015, 12:29:22 AM »
Trying to book a flight and when I search I am getting the following error message.

Error
There was a problem with your request, please try again later.

Just me or is it systemwide?

Having the same issue, tried incognito,  didnt help...

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3593 on: June 11, 2015, 05:18:05 PM »
I'm trying to boom a 1 way from NYC to Miami but it won't let me. Can you only book round trips using avios rewards?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3594 on: June 11, 2015, 05:19:49 PM »
I'm trying to boom a 1 way from NYC to Miami but it won't let me. Can you only book round trips using avios rewards?
u can book one ways, by any chance is it for this friday?
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3595 on: June 12, 2015, 02:30:09 PM »
I'm trying to boom a 1 way from NYC to Miami but it won't let me. Can you only book round trips using avios rewards?

I just did 2 one ways last night, earlier in the week people were getting error messages when searching anything...

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3596 on: June 14, 2015, 07:19:15 PM »
Everytime I book a flight with ba they don't let me check in I think the reason is bc I'm dual and that mixes up the computer. Anyone else have similar experience or know how to get around this problem?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3597 on: June 14, 2015, 07:21:28 PM »
Everytime I book a flight with ba they don't let me check in I think the reason is bc I'm dual and that mixes up the computer. Anyone else have similar experience or know how to get around this problem?
I'm dual, no issues here.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3598 on: June 14, 2015, 07:24:40 PM »
I'm dual, no issues here.
Do u put in same info every time u fly or switch when u go in our out of America... (When I go in to Canada I show put in info of Canadian and when go to America I put in info of American)

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3599 on: June 14, 2015, 07:26:06 PM »
Do u put in same info every time u fly or switch when u go in our out of America... (When I go in to Canada I show put in info of Canadian and when go to America I put in info of American)
Random, generally the way you do but I've done all different