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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
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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 #1580 on: March 27, 2014, 03:30:56 PM »
If you look on the AA website, you can see how many unassigned seats there are
I can't. All seats are unavailable.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1581 on: March 27, 2014, 03:32:06 PM »
So frustrated.

I have a ton of PHL-ATL and ATL-PHL flights upcoming.  I looked on http://www.milecalc.com/ and it's give me 666 travel miles.  Just 16 miles over the 650 threshold!  What a shame.  Any advice?  Thanks!

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1582 on: March 27, 2014, 04:14:40 PM »
So frustrated.

I have a ton of PHL-ATL and ATL-PHL flights upcoming.  I looked on http://www.milecalc.com/ and it's give me 666 travel miles.  Just 16 miles over the 650 threshold!  What a shame.  Any advice?  Thanks!

Fly to Harrisburg or Baltimore and rent a car

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1583 on: March 27, 2014, 04:55:06 PM »
So frustrated.

I have a ton of PHL-ATL and ATL-PHL flights upcoming.  I looked on http://www.milecalc.com/ and it's give me 666 travel miles.  Just 16 miles over the 650 threshold!  What a shame.  Any advice?  Thanks!

I know that feeling. I flew from AEP to IGR and it is 652 miles, just 2 more than the threshold!

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1584 on: March 27, 2014, 05:23:43 PM »
I know that feeling. I flew from AEP to IGR and it is 652 miles, just 2 more than the threshold!

And PHL to ORD also stinks, 678 miles...
But that makes BWI to ORD so sweet - 622 miles :)

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1585 on: March 29, 2014, 09:27:26 PM »
I have checked all weekends for like next 3/4 month from phl/NYC to fll/Mia & wsp & nothing- seems like thier system is so flooded.. Hope the merger hells with that

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1586 on: March 29, 2014, 09:59:58 PM »
I have checked all weekends for like next 3/4 month from phl/NYC to fll/Mia & wsp & nothing- seems like thier system is so flooded.. Hope the merger hells with that

I seem to be having the same issue, trying to find nyc to mia for the next 3/4 months nothing available... hopefully just something in there system

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1587 on: March 30, 2014, 02:04:17 PM »
Thinking about booking a flight April 2nd on US Airways. What are the odds that BA will let me book on March 31st or is there a chance the switch doesn't work perfectly?

Who is betting that the BA website will go down tonight :)

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1588 on: March 30, 2014, 02:45:23 PM »
Who is betting that the BA website will go down tonight :)

Lol. well my wife has to confirm with work tomorrow. So her loss if I can't get it, she has to take the bus.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1589 on: March 30, 2014, 07:19:32 PM »
Actually anyone know if I can cancel ba award flight within 24 hrs and no penalty?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1590 on: March 30, 2014, 07:41:16 PM »
yes
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1591 on: March 30, 2014, 11:45:25 PM »
US airways flights are showing up on BA.

For the date I am looking the USair flights are only showing first class available.

2 hours ago on AA.com they were showing availability. Now on AA.com they are showing no saver availability for the same flights..Did they get booked that fast?

There were multiple flights.

LGA-IAD on April 2nd in the evening.

Also if there is a saver flight showing on AA.com for American any reason I can't book it on BA?

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1592 on: March 31, 2014, 12:19:42 AM »
US airways flights are showing up on BA.

For the date I am looking the USair flights are only showing first class available.

2 hours ago on AA.com they were showing availability. Now on AA.com they are showing no saver availability for the same flights..Did they get booked that fast?

There were multiple flights.

LGA-IAD on April 2nd in the evening.

Also if there is a saver flight showing on AA.com for American any reason I can't book it on BA?

I am not seeing any Usair on BA

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1593 on: March 31, 2014, 12:29:19 AM »
It's there.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1594 on: March 31, 2014, 12:32:41 AM »
It's there.

I suppose there just may not be availability... I was hoping to book some tonight

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1595 on: March 31, 2014, 12:33:24 AM »
As always, search AA.com and then once found, move over to BA.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1596 on: March 31, 2014, 12:37:57 AM »
As always, search AA.com and then once found, move over to BA.

Doing that. Any idea why the 930pm flight jfk - dca on apr 2nd is showing up on aa.com but not ba.com?

Guess it doesn't matter though as it won't let me book anything.

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1597 on: March 31, 2014, 12:45:25 AM »
Got a booking through!

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1598 on: March 31, 2014, 10:13:15 AM »
NYC-IND = 7,500 avios
PHL-IND = 4,500 avios

NYC-SDF = 7,500 avios
PHL-SDF = 4,500 avios

Oh well, was hoping it would fall into the 4,500 category

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #1599 on: March 31, 2014, 09:15:17 PM »
Does it make sense that it is cheaper to book 2 one way trips (PHL>YYZ, YYZ>PHL) 27k Avios + $159.45
than book a roundtrip 27k Avios + $161.10? TIA