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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 #5700 on: March 23, 2022, 06:15:21 PM »
Btw are the name on both accounts exactly the same ?
Yes.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5701 on: March 24, 2022, 08:56:25 AM »
Spoke yesterday with a Qatar Privilege agent and he said that to change your dob you need to upload a valid passport and one other ID via service request on their website (he guided me how to do it) and after that you need to call back and speak with a representative to change your DOB

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5702 on: March 24, 2022, 10:11:26 AM »
Spoke yesterday with a Qatar Privilege agent and he said that to change your dob you need to upload a valid passport and one other ID via service request on their website (he guided me how to do it) and after that you need to call back and speak with a representative to change your DOB
The problem is my DOB do match and would still say that it doesn't match

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5703 on: March 28, 2022, 12:20:22 AM »
If your Qatar DOB is wrong just delete the account and make it over assuming you only have 2.5k points in it.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5704 on: March 28, 2022, 11:25:56 AM »
The problem is my DOB do match and would still say that it doesn't match

Yeah I'm running into the same issue where the error message says DOB's don't match...but they DO match so I have no clue what's going on

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5705 on: March 28, 2022, 11:51:53 AM »
Yeah I'm running into the same issue where the error message says DOB's don't match...but they DO match so I have no clue what's going on
It seems some have accounts where info is correct but not working. Don't think anyone had that resolved so far. I know my DOB was wrong so just deleted account and made a new one with same info and correct DOB. No issues.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5706 on: April 06, 2022, 03:04:31 PM »
Note that things are changing on March 1st. Alaska will start displaying dynamic prices for AA awards, so therefore it will no longer be safe to assume that an AA flight showing as available for a mileage booking on AlaskaAir.com will also be available to Avios

So is there currently any way to figure out which AA flights are available with avios?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5707 on: April 06, 2022, 03:35:10 PM »
So is there currently any way to figure out which AA flights are available with avios?

Is the BA website down? If not, just use that.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5708 on: April 06, 2022, 03:37:43 PM »
Is the BA website down? If not, just use that.

Do they always show everything that is available?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5709 on: April 06, 2022, 03:40:23 PM »
So is there currently any way to figure out which AA flights are available with avios?
Qantas
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5710 on: April 06, 2022, 03:42:37 PM »
I wasn't able to book, AA metal on BA lately. TLV to NYC.
kept erroring out.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5711 on: April 12, 2022, 08:35:41 PM »
Qantas

Qantas is showing lots and lots of flights for my date. How can I be sure before waiting on hold for an hour? Just yesterday when I called there was only one available.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5712 on: April 13, 2022, 08:15:42 AM »
Qantas is showing lots and lots of flights for my date. How can I be sure before waiting on hold for an hour? Just yesterday when I called there was only one available.

Are the phone agents not able to see as many flights either? Just tried calling one today. She only saw one flight on her end, but BA showed two and Qantas showed many more.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5713 on: April 13, 2022, 09:46:12 AM »
Are the phone agents not able to see as many flights either? Just tried calling one today. She only saw one flight on her end, but BA showed two and Qantas showed many more.
Try BA Singapore line?
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5714 on: April 13, 2022, 10:49:00 AM »
Try BA Singapore line?
Closed except for flight changes  :(
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5715 on: April 13, 2022, 10:54:23 AM »
Closed except for flight changes  :(
Try other countries?
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5716 on: April 13, 2022, 10:56:58 AM »
Try other countries?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5717 on: April 21, 2022, 05:50:00 PM »
Same issue.
Qantas showing aa metal but ba can’t see it…

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5718 on: April 21, 2022, 06:00:36 PM »
Same issue.
Qantas showing aa metal but ba can’t see it…
Try other BA foreign call centers?
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #5719 on: April 21, 2022, 06:04:50 PM »
Try other BA foreign call centers?
Why are they able to see availability compared to USA?