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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 #660 on: July 09, 2013, 01:20:32 PM »
Is this still true?
Domestic and Canada: yes
International: no
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #661 on: July 10, 2013, 12:35:59 AM »
Domestic and Canada: yes
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #662 on: July 12, 2013, 11:38:39 AM »
Is there any way to force BA.com to show a flight that AA.com is showing availablr for 12.5k?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #663 on: July 12, 2013, 11:39:57 AM »
Is there any way to force BA.com to show a flight that AA.com is showing availablr for 12.5k?
Are you searching correctly (jfk and lga show up together on aa, not ba)? Is it direct?
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #664 on: July 12, 2013, 11:44:40 AM »
Are you searching correctly (jfk and lga show up together on aa, not ba)? Is it direct?
yes.. 7/18 ORD-LGA at 5:20pm. BA.com is only showing flights till 3:40pm

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #665 on: July 12, 2013, 12:05:58 PM »
yes.. 7/18 ORD-LGA at 5:20pm. BA.com is only showing flights till 3:40pm
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #666 on: July 12, 2013, 12:09:24 PM »
So, I am assuming there is no way to force BA.com to show it then...?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #667 on: July 12, 2013, 12:10:42 PM »
So, I am assuming there is no way to force BA.com to show it then...?
Different browser. Try again.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #668 on: July 12, 2013, 12:11:54 PM »
So, I am assuming there is no way to force BA.com to show it then...?

I've notice before that some flights would only show up if making a roundtrip ticket. When i would try to book a one way then it wouldn't show up online.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #669 on: July 13, 2013, 11:57:23 PM »
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When I was recently booking, they only showed one page of flights.  I, like you, wanted a later flight.  I called BA.  She was very nice and booked it for me without any problems.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #670 on: July 14, 2013, 08:59:49 PM »
I am trying to book a ticket from DTW-LGA on Buisness due to the times of the flight, but they are considering it First class and charging triple Avios instead of double like they would for Buisness.
In the past I was able to book Buisness on this route for 9,000 each way now they want 13,500, is this a recent downgrade to the program? Anyway around this?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #671 on: July 14, 2013, 09:01:49 PM »
I am trying to book a ticket from DTW-LGA on Buisness due to the times of the flight, but they are considering it First class and charging triple Avios instead of double like they would for Buisness.
In the past I was able to book Buisness on this route for 9,000 each way now they want 13,500, is this a recent downgrade to the program? Anyway around this?
It was always like this.

Maybe when you booked NYC-YYZ/YUL it was 9k since it's an international ticket.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #672 on: July 14, 2013, 09:14:15 PM »
It was always like this.

Maybe when you booked NYC-YYZ/YUL it was 9k since it's an international ticket.
I guess It's been a while since I last checked business on that route. I know more recently I was able to book a flight to Puerto Rico on business for double the Avios of economy, I guess they consider that international.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #673 on: July 14, 2013, 10:04:35 PM »
It's not a matter of international or domestic, it has to do with it being a 2 or 3 cabin plane.

2 cabin planes and J = 3x Y.
3 cabing planes and J = 2x Y and F = 3x Y.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #674 on: July 14, 2013, 10:12:01 PM »
It's not a matter of international or domestic, it has to do with it being a 2 or 3 cabin plane.

2 cabin planes and J = 3x Y.
3 cabing planes and J = 2x Y and F = 3x Y.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #675 on: July 14, 2013, 10:19:15 PM »
It's not a matter of international or domestic
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2/3 cabins only matters for domestic.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #676 on: July 14, 2013, 10:24:35 PM »
And so it is.

But to -1000? I was just fine with Ergel's -1.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #677 on: July 16, 2013, 10:43:54 PM »
How do I ensure that my AA card will get me free bags on my BA-booked flight? Every time I do it I end up jumping through hoops at the airport.
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« Reply #678 on: July 16, 2013, 10:49:35 PM »
How do I ensure that my AA card will get me free bags on my BA-booked flight? Every time I do it I end up jumping through hoops at the airport.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #679 on: July 16, 2013, 11:12:15 PM »
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Thanks. Apparently Finnair.com no longer has the Additional Details option. I tried on rj.com per the comments on your post, and it does allow me to change my BA # to my AA #, but when I try to save the info I get an error message "Please provide us with a birthdate. (1429)", even though there is nowhere on the page to enter a DOB. Any other ideas?

Also, if I'm flying with a wife and child, do I get 3 free bags?
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