BA Avios question(s)

[myi]

If your hurry is about keeping Avios alive, I think they post retroactive to the shopping date, so they bring your avios back to life.

I've tried countless times and was never successful not even one order.

seeing this when i try to book for someone else

Due to restriction on ba.com, you must be a passenger to make this booking with Avios.

To make this booking for someone else, please contact yourlocal Executive Club service center.

calling has me on hold forever, anyway around this?

Is it a household account?

[ckmk47]

I've tried countless times and was never successful not even one order.

Glad to know differently. Some types do.  AA, for example.

[myi]

Glad to know differently. Some types do.  AA, for example.

I've always tried with shopping like amazon,walmart,bestbuy.
  But yes when taking a flight with aa and would put my ba ffn in it would extend my expiration date for another 36mnths and always work for avios while shopping I have no success.

[shmooz]

Is it a household account?

No.
It seems to be a restriction since I didn't earn the points through flights. Finally I got through to BA who booked it.

[mrprez27]

this may be a silly question but do avios AA flights count as segments for AA status?

[mochjas]

this may be a silly question but do avios AA flights count as segments for AA status?

they do not. Only paid flights count

[mrprez27]

they do not. Only paid flights count

thanks

[aryeh1]

seeing this when i try to book for someone else

Due to restriction on ba.com, you must be a passenger to make this booking with Avios.

To make this booking for someone else, please contact yourlocal Executive Club service center.

calling has me on hold forever, anyway around this?

Same-wondering if you can no longer book for others online?

[jose34]

Really hard to get through to BA sometimes. Usually get through using the Executive Club Silver number ( sry dont know the number off hand) You can also try calling a foreign BA number.

I think, you can try creating an account for them and them and add them as Family and Friends in your account.
Once they are in your account you can then add a passenger, but once your finished doing that that just wait on hold with BA....

[yandmk]

"Due to heavy call volume, your call cannot be completed at this time. Please call again later." From the US call center.
Any suggestions?

[mochjas]

"Due to heavy call volume, your call cannot be completed at this time. Please call again later." From the US call center.
Any suggestions?

call a different call center

[yandmk]

call a different call center

They're all closed at this hour. But anyhow, I got through after a few tries BH. Thanks for your help.

[jose34]

call a different call center

On one of the US numbers I've gotten that message for months and even when I ve called at like 1 in the morning.

[schneury]

Trying to book for someone else using my avios but theres no option to remove my executive number and name... and i get the following message:

Why can't I change these details?
Due to restriction on ba.com, you must be a passenger to make this booking with Avios.

To make this booking for someone else, please contact yourlocal Executive Club service center.

is this something new? i was able to make a booking last week by changing the information.

[myi]

Trying to book for someone else using my avios but theres no option to remove my executive number and name... and i get the following message:

Why can't I change these details?
Due to restriction on ba.com, you must be a passenger to make this booking with Avios.

To make this booking for someone else, please contact yourlocal Executive Club service center.

is this something new? i was able to make a booking last week by changing the information.

You should be able to no problem as long as your account is not a household account which would then restrict you from booking for passengers which do not reside in your household but if you have an account which is not connected to any others you should have no problem booking for another passenger, if you do have a problem call up ba.com and have it booked over the phone and tell them that it wasn't bookable online so can you please waive the phone booking fee.

[hvaces42]

AA and AS show availability on an AA domestic flight. BA cant see it and it doesnt come up online. What to do?

[shapsam]

AA and AS show availability on an AA domestic flight. BA cant see it and it doesnt come up online. What to do?

https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/milespoints/american-flights-arent-showing-british-airways-avios-awards-heres-book/

Did you try this?

[hvaces42]

https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/milespoints/american-flights-arent-showing-british-airways-avios-awards-heres-book/

Did you try this?

Working on that right now. So far no luck.

Called Singapore earlier with no luck and called a second time and found a rep to book it with no fee.

[myi]

https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/milespoints/american-flights-arent-showing-british-airways-avios-awards-heres-book/

Did you try this?

Nice thread, must have missed that post. Very informative post. Thanks @Dan

[VLK]

Trying to book an AA flight using BA points for an evening flight. However, since there are so many available flights on that day with availability it is only showing me morning flight options. Is there any way to pull up flights later in the day or do I have to call BA?