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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 #3740 on: July 07, 2015, 03:54:25 PM »
Even if they present a cc as an au?
Flashing an AA CC may get you the baggage waived.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3741 on: July 07, 2015, 04:28:18 PM »
Was usair also a prob online or only aa?

I was just able to book usair on ba.com

Also, finnair and rj are not working to add a frequent miles #. any other suggestions?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3742 on: July 07, 2015, 04:29:58 PM »
Was usair also a prob online or only aa?

I was just able to book usair on ba.com

Also, finnair and rj are not working to add a frequent miles #. any other suggestions?
my experience with RJ, is for some reason it could take up to a few hours... but eventually it works
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3743 on: July 07, 2015, 04:30:51 PM »
Was usair also a prob online or only aa?

I was just able to book usair on ba.com


Thats USair. Issue seems to be with AA.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3744 on: July 07, 2015, 04:33:08 PM »
If you are not flying, the passenger will not get free luggage. (But will probably get TSA pre check and priority acess)

correct, waiving an AU card on DL or AA has helped people get free luggage

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3745 on: July 07, 2015, 04:35:14 PM »
If you are not flying, the passenger will not get free luggage. (But will probably get TSA pre check and priority acess)
Ive had past experience, that adding my AA number to someone else and he got free baggage but that hasent happened in a long time
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3746 on: July 07, 2015, 04:37:42 PM »
my experience with RJ, is for some reason it could take up to a few hours... but eventually it works

Thanks,
I got the confirmation emails from RJ... but nothing on the AA or US airways site.

Guess ill check back in a bit

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3747 on: July 07, 2015, 08:18:35 PM »
I needed to make some Avios booking and ran into an interesting situation.

I found sAAver level availability for two trips on AA.com (YUL-LGA in August and LGA-GSO in November) but the BA agents were only able to book the YUL trip. Any ideas why one works and not the other? HUCA'd 4 times and got the same response...

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3748 on: July 07, 2015, 10:11:01 PM »
I needed to make some Avios booking and ran into an interesting situation.

I found sAAver level availability for two trips on AA.com (YUL-LGA in August and LGA-GSO in November) but the BA agents were only able to book the YUL trip. Any ideas why one works and not the other? HUCA'd 4 times and got the same response...
They book what they can see, so I guess they cant see that flight.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3749 on: July 08, 2015, 01:03:16 AM »
I needed to make some Avios booking and ran into an interesting situation.

I found sAAver level availability for two trips on AA.com (YUL-LGA in August and LGA-GSO in November) but the BA agents were only able to book the YUL trip. Any ideas why one works and not the other? HUCA'd 4 times and got the same response...
HUCA some more (give the agent the EXACT flight number).

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3750 on: July 08, 2015, 09:31:05 AM »
Anyone know if ba gold status gets better aa award avaibilty than the blue level?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3751 on: July 08, 2015, 11:26:54 AM »
been on hold forever, tried london call center same thing. any numbers to call?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3752 on: July 08, 2015, 11:36:33 AM »
been on hold forever, tried london call center same thing. any numbers to call?
Dan posted a few a couple of days ago.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3753 on: July 08, 2015, 11:38:33 AM »
Germany got through in less then a minute. just now the flight isnt there any more when is ba website gonna get fixed!!!  :-\

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3754 on: July 08, 2015, 12:11:01 PM »
been on hold forever, tried london call center same thing. any numbers to call?
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3755 on: July 08, 2015, 01:10:52 PM »
seeing tons of T availability for yyz-lga on AA metal over next few weeks but virtually zero for the mid August weekend-  that I need...is it normal for AA to wait until a few weeks before to open space? does it make some sense to book U (which has space) and cxl if T opens up?  - also, anyone know the fees on this route each way via BA avios?
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3756 on: July 08, 2015, 05:03:30 PM »
Sorry for my ignorance. I am new to this.

I am trying to sell 52,000 BA Avios. Somebody contacted me asking if I can book them as many round trip tickets as possible between Aug 10-12 and that he will pay me a "reasonable" price for it.

How can I identify the current market value of these points to know if it is a fair deal and I am not being taken advantage of?

If you can help me out with this question, it would be great.

Thank you so much

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3757 on: July 08, 2015, 05:06:25 PM »
Sorry for my ignorance. I am new to this.

I am trying to sell 52,000 BA Avios. Somebody contacted me asking if I can book them as many round trip tickets as possible between Aug 10-12 and that he will pay me a "reasonable" price for it.

How can I identify the current market value of these points to know if it is a fair deal and I am not being taken advantage of?

If you can help me out with this question, it would be great.

Thank you so much

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Well how much are they paying you for it?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3758 on: July 08, 2015, 05:10:18 PM »
Well how much are they paying you for it?

Not sure yet.

Is there anyway to know the approx market value $/avios?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3759 on: July 08, 2015, 05:11:49 PM »
Not sure yet.

Is there anyway to know the approx market value $/avios?
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