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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/AA infant
« Reply #2880 on: December 30, 2014, 03:49:03 PM »
That's what I thought.. my question was more specifically would there be any issue with bringing the stroller or car seat because I didn't have the infant added in advance prior to arriving at the airport...?

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Re: BA Avios/AA infant
« Reply #2881 on: December 30, 2014, 03:50:13 PM »
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2882 on: December 30, 2014, 04:13:43 PM »
Hate hate hate BA's wait time. At this rate, by the time they pick up the phone, the flight I want will have already departed  ::)

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2883 on: December 30, 2014, 04:16:55 PM »
Hate hate hate BA's wait time. At this rate, by the time they pick up the phone, the flight I want will have already departed  ::)
try calling the Mexico call center

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2884 on: January 04, 2015, 01:33:16 PM »
-Is it an issue to have multiple BA reservations (flying AA) using same BA account?
Not sure what dates work so wanted to keep open a few options...

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2885 on: January 05, 2015, 01:09:15 PM »
-Is it an issue to have multiple BA reservations (flying AA) using same BA account?
Not sure what dates work so wanted to keep open a few options...

No you're good

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2886 on: January 05, 2015, 01:50:58 PM »
I am the Household Manager of our Avios account. My account has under 1000 points in it but my husbands has 60K+ in it that I would like to transfer to Iberia. The system won't let me transfer it directly to Iberia from his account since I am the Household Manager. I caanot figure out how to access his points through my account household manager and transfer them. Anyone know how to do this?  I would PUTPAC but it is over a 30 min wait.
Thanks

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2887 on: January 05, 2015, 05:53:15 PM »
Does BA release different availability to different BA accounts? 

LAN  MAD-SCL only showing on US based BA account, but not for a Swiss based BA account. (same issue over the phone).

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2888 on: January 05, 2015, 10:01:16 PM »
Not sure if this is something new or has been discussed, but I was easily able to retrieve an AA record locator on BA's website.
All I did was go to change  my seat and on the bottom of the page it had my BA booking reference and my AA  reference. No need for any workarounds.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2889 on: January 05, 2015, 10:05:33 PM »
Not sure if this is something new or has been discussed, but I was easily able to retrieve an AA record locator on BA's website.
All I did was go to change  my seat and on the bottom of the page it had my BA booking reference and my AA  reference. No need for any workarounds.
I've been doing that for a while. the workaround (that I think you're talking about) is to add your AAdvantage number
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2890 on: January 05, 2015, 10:11:29 PM »
I've been doing that for a while. the workaround (that I think you're talking about) is to add your AAdvantage number
Oh, and here I thought I solved a major issue, I was already counting my HT :)
Is it difficult to do so On AA's website? It seems like they allow you to add your aadvantage #. I couldn't because they messed up with the spelling of my name.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2891 on: January 05, 2015, 11:26:54 PM »
Oh, and here I thought I solved a major issue, I was already counting my HT :)
Is it difficult to do so On AA's website? It seems like they allow you to add your aadvantage #. I couldn't because they messed up with the spelling of my name.
From my experience, sometimes they don't automatically associate it with your BA number, then you can just add your AA number on aa.com, but if they put in your BA number, you'll need the workaround to change it to your AA number.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2892 on: January 06, 2015, 12:01:05 AM »
Does BA release different availability to different BA accounts? 

LAN  MAD-SCL only showing on US based BA account, but not for a Swiss based BA account. (same issue over the phone).

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2893 on: January 06, 2015, 05:12:12 PM »
I know that this question has been asked before - but I can't see any responses later than 2013 and wanted to know if anything has changed - am trying to book avios from ORD - LGA - only 4 flights come up - first 4 flights of the day - there is definitely availability later in the day - is there any way to get those flights to show up or do i have to call?  will they waive the phone fee?  Thanks in advance!

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2894 on: January 06, 2015, 05:14:02 PM »
I know that this question has been asked before - but I can't see any responses later than 2013 and wanted to know if anything has changed - am trying to book avios from ORD - LGA - only 4 flights come up - first 4 flights of the day - there is definitely availability later in the day - is there any way to get those flights to show up or do i have to call?  will they waive the phone fee?  Thanks in advance!
you have to call. And they will waive the phone fee if you explain to them that it's not showing up online.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2895 on: January 06, 2015, 05:15:42 PM »
you have to call. And they will waive the phone fee if you explain to them that it's not showing up online.

Thanks for the quick response - much appreciated!

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2896 on: January 07, 2015, 08:40:56 AM »
NYC-PHX is 12.5k ba or 12.5k aa coach, and 37.5k ba or 25k aa business right?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2897 on: January 07, 2015, 12:54:53 PM »
NYC-PHX is 12.5k ba or 12.5k aa coach, and 37.5k ba or 25k aa business right?
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2898 on: January 07, 2015, 01:28:47 PM »
How do i add my USAir ffn to a reservation that was booked with BA? (Finnair and RJ not working)

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2899 on: January 07, 2015, 06:35:41 PM »
Should it be an issue booking a ba flight on the phone with 2 different passenger names?