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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 #3680 on: June 28, 2015, 05:18:16 PM »
"Note that all sAAver flights available on AA.com are able to be booked on BA"

I tried booking with Avios 5 tickets on a flight which show up as available on AA"s website (as award tickets), called BA (several times)and they said they only have 1 place available to them. So it seems that there is some capacity control for BA awards on AA.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3681 on: June 30, 2015, 02:40:21 PM »
I am seeing the same issue for booking via BA's site. Wonder what happened?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3682 on: June 30, 2015, 02:53:53 PM »
"Note that all sAAver flights available on AA.com are able to be booked on BA"

I tried booking with Avios 5 tickets on a flight which show up as available on AA"s website (as award tickets), called BA (several times)and they said they only have 1 place available to them. So it seems that there is some capacity control for BA awards on AA.

How many seats on that flight were available at Saaver on AA?
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3683 on: June 30, 2015, 03:16:44 PM »
BA system is now down even by phone .

due to technical details we cant process any bookings right now try back in 24 hours.

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« Reply #3684 on: June 30, 2015, 03:22:24 PM »
BA system is now down even by phone .

due to technical details we cant process any bookings right now try back in 24 hours.
Works for me.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3685 on: June 30, 2015, 03:30:34 PM »
Yes its back up

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3686 on: June 30, 2015, 03:39:17 PM »
BA rep claiming to me now that not all seats available on aa.com with saver is available for them aa only gives them a certaiun amount of seats.

Any true to his claim or i just need to PUTPAC??

i was transferred to supervisor which has the same claim

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3687 on: June 30, 2015, 03:43:40 PM »
BA rep claiming to me now that not all seats available on aa.com with saver is available for them aa only gives them a certaiun amount of seats.

Any true to his claim or i just need to PUTPAC??

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3688 on: June 30, 2015, 03:48:29 PM »
Supervisor was able to confirm flights for me.

I had to fight 5 minutes with this stupid rep who didn't wanna transfer me because supervisor has the same availabilty.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3689 on: June 30, 2015, 09:42:35 PM »
Really hoping that this is just a glitch in the BA system and that it's fixed soon... Anyone have any idea what's going on?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3690 on: July 01, 2015, 01:42:31 AM »
Been hearing rumors that due to the merger of us air and aa they are tightening the capacity for ba-anyone with any more info?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3691 on: July 01, 2015, 01:47:37 AM »
Say it ain't so. Where did you hear these rumors? Sounds made up.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3692 on: July 01, 2015, 01:58:07 AM »
Cousin heard it in Colombus Ohio & again in detriot (both places where ppl really heavily on ba).. Suprised Dan hasn't addressed it one way or the other.. Hoping it ain't true..

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3693 on: July 01, 2015, 10:11:40 AM »
So the rumors are that not all availability from AA will be available for BA, or AA will tighten availability in general?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3694 on: July 01, 2015, 12:32:48 PM »
So the rumors are that not all availability from AA will be available for BA, or AA will tighten availability in general?

Neither

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3695 on: July 01, 2015, 12:37:09 PM »
Just a note. On my third call the rep was able to find availability and book the ticket no problem.

I asked him why he was able to see it right away and some other reps can't, and this is what he told me. (It may be true, it may not, so take it as it is) - He told me that "he was searching for all One-World partners not just AA, and that the other reps were just searching for AA and thats why it wasn't showing up."

Again, this may or may not be true, but next time you call you can ask if they are searching all of One World or only AA. I know for a matter of fact that the first rep was only searching for AA and it wasn't showing up.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3696 on: July 01, 2015, 12:38:12 PM »
Just a note. On my third call the rep was able to find availability and book the ticket no problem.

And in other news.....

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3697 on: July 01, 2015, 12:42:36 PM »
Neither

Please clog THIS THREAD instead

And in other news.....
O wow y all the hate?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3698 on: July 01, 2015, 12:46:22 PM »
O wow y all the hate?

Because its false, and not worth spreading around bad info.

Its most likely a glitch. Why don't you go spreading news that AA isn't going to get CX or JL seats anymore since they cannot be booked online. Same thing. No need to go spread around false info. Take it someplace else.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #3699 on: July 02, 2015, 10:39:27 AM »
I just searched TLV to PHL and found availability with US nonstop.
On BA.com it is showing YQ of $368. Is that accurate?