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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 #5480 on: April 03, 2019, 06:01:15 AM »
Any difference in a BA or IB Flight from MAD-NYC with both the flights pricing the same and both leaving and arriving the same time? is one better than the other? better chance of arriving on time with one over the other? better food on one over the other? more miles rewarded?
its the IB flight that has a BA codeshare so the only difference might be the amount of miles awarded depending on the FF program

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5481 on: April 03, 2019, 08:16:53 AM »
its the IB flight that has a BA codeshare so the only difference might be the amount of miles awarded depending on the FF program
I wasn't sure, because they both have a flight from LPA-MAD leaving at the same time, but the aircraft for those flights are a bit different so wasn't sure if that means the 2nd leg is different as well.
 (yes on the 2nd leg, everything is the same, it even says on the BA flight that it's flown by IB.)
 Thanks for clarifying.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5482 on: April 03, 2019, 10:08:00 AM »
any OW partner to book BA with no YQ?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5483 on: April 03, 2019, 10:09:54 AM »
any OW partner to book BA with no YQ?
AS has lower YQ.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5484 on: April 04, 2019, 12:30:06 PM »
Anyone else having a hard time booking Avios flights online?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5485 on: April 04, 2019, 12:50:32 PM »
Yes. Impacting web and phone bookings.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5486 on: April 04, 2019, 01:08:15 PM »
Yes. Impacting web and phone bookings.
So, no point in calling?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5487 on: April 04, 2019, 01:14:21 PM »
My info is from my somewhat n00b bro in law. Take it or leave it :)
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5488 on: April 04, 2019, 01:18:13 PM »
i had the same issue today online, didn't try calling

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5489 on: April 04, 2019, 02:34:17 PM »
What sort of problem?
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5490 on: April 04, 2019, 02:53:31 PM »
trying to book with Avios, errors out as "Error   There was a problem with your request, please try again later."

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5491 on: April 04, 2019, 03:58:00 PM »
trying to book with Avios, errors out as "Error   There was a problem with your request, please try again later."
Called last night, seemed to be no problem.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5492 on: April 04, 2019, 10:19:45 PM »
I'm also still getting Error message.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5493 on: April 05, 2019, 09:36:00 AM »
It looks like verifying availability and then calling in (before trying to proceed to booking) is working for most people at the moment. 

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5494 on: April 05, 2019, 10:02:52 AM »
today online is some what better, (one route worked, another didn't)
over the phone (yesterday and today), they were able to find everything and book it, of course they waived the phone booking fee

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5495 on: April 05, 2019, 11:59:51 AM »
any way to book yul-nyc on ba awards its saying they don't operate between these two cities
i have done it in the past anything changed?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5496 on: April 05, 2019, 12:34:11 PM »
Did you make sure you were using "Standard Avios Search" and not "Reward Flight Finder" for your search?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5497 on: April 05, 2019, 12:39:23 PM »
any way to book yul-nyc on ba awards its saying they don't operate between these two cities
i have done it in the past anything changed?

The system has technical issues today. they can find it over the phone.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5498 on: April 05, 2019, 12:57:19 PM »
The system has technical issues today. they can find it over the phone.
thank u!

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5499 on: April 05, 2019, 12:57:37 PM »
Did you make sure you were using "Standard Avios Search" and not "Reward Flight Finder" for your search?
where do i find that?