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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 #340 on: March 12, 2013, 12:55:57 PM »
I've heard two reports of people getting 1 free bag at DTW today
(different flights)
I wonder if anything changed

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #341 on: March 12, 2013, 01:03:45 PM »
I need to book 4 AA tickets but I waited too long and now the flights  I want have only 2 or 3 reward seats respectively.  Was thinking of booking them simultaneously in 2 transactions (like 2BM).  Has anyone done this or have any thoughts if this will work or not.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #342 on: March 12, 2013, 02:02:53 PM »
I've heard two reports of people getting 1 free bag at DTW today
(different flights)
I wonder if anything changed
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #343 on: March 12, 2013, 03:13:21 PM »
Can I add a baby at the airport for free JFK-YYZ? It's not domestic so I'm assuming there would be different rules...
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #344 on: March 12, 2013, 03:21:34 PM »
Can I add a baby at the airport for free JFK-YYZ? It's not domestic so I'm assuming there would be different rules...
you need to pay the taxes,  I've done it before at the airport, but you can do it over the fone as well
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #345 on: March 12, 2013, 03:22:11 PM »
you need to pay the taxes,  I've done it before at the airport, but you can do it over the fone as well
What's cheaper? Miles or 10% of the flight?
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #346 on: March 12, 2013, 03:29:27 PM »
What's cheaper? Miles or 10% of the flight?
taxes are abt 17$
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #347 on: March 12, 2013, 03:30:45 PM »
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #348 on: March 12, 2013, 05:02:00 PM »
you need to pay the taxes,  I've done it before at the airport, but you can do it over the fone as well
IME was a real pain to do at the airport, almost missed my flight
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #349 on: March 12, 2013, 06:57:15 PM »
IME was a real pain to do at the airport, almost missed my flight
+1, gotta leave time for that if you didn't do it over the phone
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #350 on: March 14, 2013, 11:57:42 AM »
I am trying to book and AA ticklet with avios, I see sAAver availability on AA's website (with a stopover) for a domestic ticket 12.5k each way, but that award is not showing on BA. Is it because there is a stopover?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #351 on: March 14, 2013, 12:05:10 PM »
I am trying to book and AA ticklet with avios, I see sAAver availability on AA's website (with a stopover) for a domestic ticket 12.5k each way, but that award is not showing on BA. Is it because there is a stopover?
Yes. Book them separately.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #352 on: March 14, 2013, 12:06:30 PM »
I am trying to book and AA ticklet with avios, I see sAAver availability on AA's website (with a stopover) for a domestic ticket 12.5k each way, but that award is not showing on BA. Is it because there is a stopover?

Did you try to search with a different date and then click back to your desired date with calendar from results page?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #353 on: April 05, 2013, 03:45:23 PM »
Yes. Book them separately.
if booked separate don't you pay double the miles?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #354 on: April 05, 2013, 03:53:49 PM »
BA always charges for each segment, doesn't matter if it's together or separate.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #355 on: April 05, 2013, 04:16:52 PM »
I am looking into buying a good amount of BA miles. I have recently been "warned" that they have started cracking down on the whole system. Is this something to worry about?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #356 on: April 05, 2013, 04:40:34 PM »
Hope not since I want to sell some...

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Hope not since I want to sell some...

they did start cracking down, just lost my account with them a couple of weeks ago ;(

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #358 on: April 06, 2013, 11:53:07 PM »
i was looking to book to book form nyc to fll for the week of may 19 using 15k BA miles, there was no availability for the whole week. is it just too early and it wil open up soon or there really is nothing?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #359 on: April 07, 2013, 12:19:53 AM »
Recently had similar issue.
Seems MIA/FLL availability is scarce with Avios.
Strange since there are plenty of JFK MIA AA flights every day.
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