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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 #3880 on: July 28, 2015, 08:50:55 AM »
yes, adjust the age.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3881 on: July 28, 2015, 09:11:35 AM »
The power of HUCA! Long story short after a couple of wildly unsuccessful attempts to send UR's from my fathers sapphire account to my sapphire preferred, i got a rep to do it. (The 1st couple of reps mechanically repeated "you can only send from your account to spouse or domestic partner"). Then she even transferred it from my account to my fathers BA account. So this was a way of bypassing the restriction of sending UR's from a non-preferred account to a non-spouse account. And also sending from my UR account to a different BA account!
Until the A/A department sees.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3882 on: July 28, 2015, 09:46:49 AM »
Until the A/A department sees.
You think its gonna be flagged because its different names? Should I be worried?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3883 on: July 28, 2015, 10:41:55 AM »
You think its gonna be flagged because its different names? Should I be worried?
Just because you found a dumb rep doesn't mean all-is-well.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3884 on: July 28, 2015, 10:55:51 AM »
Just because you found a dumb rep doesn't mean all-is-well.
Once i book a flight with those miles is there still something they can do? It should be totally out of chase UR's department..?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3885 on: July 28, 2015, 10:59:11 AM »
They can shut you down, forget about the points. That said, you'd have more of a leg to stand on by transferring through a rep than otherwise.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3886 on: July 28, 2015, 11:45:39 AM »
They can shut you down, forget about the points. That said, you'd have more of a leg to stand on by transferring through a rep than otherwise.
Hard to believe they can shut me down for something the rep did!

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3887 on: July 28, 2015, 11:47:43 AM »
What do you do when a rep tells you that she sees availability dus-tlv however its "fake availability"? Would a different rep be able to help or is it true?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3888 on: July 28, 2015, 11:53:40 AM »
Hard to believe they can shut me down for something the rep did!

You mean aside from the fact that they have you recorded on multiple calls being told it was against the rules but after X calls you got someone to do it?

Good luck with that :)
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3889 on: July 28, 2015, 12:05:33 PM »
You mean aside from the fact that they have you recorded on multiple calls being told it was against the rules but after X calls you got someone to do it?

Good luck with that :)
Do they seriously dig up these phone records?? That's nuts! The total points i was dealing with was only 16K so i doubt they would bother. The bigger problem is that i cant even book the flight i want

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3890 on: July 28, 2015, 08:09:14 PM »
Im regersting now for executive club and they ask if i have a promotion code,  anyone has one to share?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3891 on: July 28, 2015, 08:16:05 PM »
Im regersting now for executive club and they ask if i have a promotion code,  anyone has one to share?
havent heard of anyone that ever had one
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3892 on: July 29, 2015, 01:38:46 AM »
I had a flight booked with avios which i changed within 24hrs of the flight. Now that the flight is more than 24hrs away, will i be able to cancel it now and get the miles back?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3893 on: July 29, 2015, 02:47:08 AM »
I had a flight booked with avios which i changed within 24hrs of the flight.
How'd you pull that off?
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Now that the flight is more than 24hrs away, will i be able to cancel it now and get the miles back?
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3894 on: July 29, 2015, 08:52:26 AM »
They actually took that one person off, and I only lost the $5.60 of tax.
really?? good to know that its possible
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3895 on: July 29, 2015, 08:57:24 AM »
really?? good to know that its possible
did you answer before without knowing the answer from personal experience or something that you read somewhere?
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3896 on: July 29, 2015, 10:05:27 AM »
anyone ever do a name change on a AA booking. have to switch wife last name on the booking and wondering if I should call ba or aa.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3897 on: July 29, 2015, 10:15:33 AM »
How'd you pull that off?
I called and asked. I did have to pay the 55 dollar fee

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3898 on: July 29, 2015, 10:20:50 AM »
anyone ever do a name change on a AA booking. have to switch wife last name on the booking and wondering if I should call ba or aa.

cancel & rebook?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3899 on: July 29, 2015, 10:27:00 AM »
cancel & rebook?

its 4 flights x 2 people in each booking so id rather try and call first to get it done