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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 #2420 on: August 28, 2014, 07:50:37 PM »
Did BA award cancelation fee go up?!
I just canceled a ticket booked with Avios and it says "$55 cancelation fee". It was always $50 AFAIK.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2421 on: August 28, 2014, 07:55:43 PM »
No, you lose the lessor of that or the taxes
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2422 on: August 28, 2014, 08:01:14 PM »
Quote from: D93 on August 28, 2014, 07:50:37 PM
Did BA award cancelation fee go up?!
I just canceled a ticket booked with Avios and it says "$55 cancelation fee". It was always $50 AFAIK.
Yes, they chenged it to $55 recently (or taxes, whatever is less)
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2423 on: August 28, 2014, 08:14:31 PM »
Quote from: bzuckerman59 on August 28, 2014, 07:55:43 PM
No, you lose the lessor of that or the taxes
i am aware of that, but it was always $50 not $55
Quote from: ilherman on August 28, 2014, 08:01:14 PM
Yes, they chenged it to $55 recently (or taxes, whatever is less)
thanx. i thought maybe it was a mistake. when did it go up? i never saw anyone mention this.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2424 on: August 28, 2014, 08:50:29 PM »
Quote from: D93 on August 28, 2014, 08:14:31 PM
i am aware of that, but it was always $50 not $55 thanx. i thought maybe it was a mistake. when did it go up? i never saw anyone mention this.
Hmmm it was mentioned upthread...
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2425 on: August 29, 2014, 06:20:21 AM »
Quote from: D93 on August 28, 2014, 08:14:31 PM
i am aware of that, but it was always $50 not $55 thanx. i thought maybe it was a mistake. when did it go up? i never saw anyone mention this.
Was $40. Went up to $55 a couple months ago.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2426 on: September 01, 2014, 08:59:20 PM »
I'm looking for a specific flight every day for the past month and there's no availability, do I still have a chance they'll open some seats (I'm up to two weeks from departure)?

Wanna know because the cash price started to go up to crazy prices  :-[
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2427 on: September 01, 2014, 09:00:21 PM »
Quote from: Novo on September 01, 2014, 08:59:20 PM
I'm looking for a specific flight every day for the past month and there's no availability, do I still have a chance they'll open some seats (I'm up to two weeks from departure)?

Wanna know because the cash price started to go up to crazy prices  :-[
Check fare classes using EF and you can make an educated guess.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2428 on: September 01, 2014, 09:04:10 PM »

Quote from: Novo on September 01, 2014, 08:59:20 PM
I'm looking for a specific flight every day for the past month and there's no availability, do I still have a chance they'll open some seats (I'm up to two weeks from departure)?

Wanna know because the cash price started to go up to crazy prices  :-[


What route? I got 2 seats for NYC - YYZ and 2 seats back (separately) two days before a trip.
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« Reply #2429 on: September 01, 2014, 09:04:50 PM »
Quote from: jaywhy on September 01, 2014, 09:00:21 PM
Check fare classes using EF and you can make an educated guess.
EF?
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« Reply #2430 on: September 01, 2014, 09:05:10 PM »
Quote from: an613 on September 01, 2014, 09:04:10 PM


What route? I got 2 seats for NYC - YYZ and 2 seats back (separately) two days before a trip.
NYC-YUL
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« Reply #2432 on: September 01, 2014, 09:31:07 PM »
Quote from: jaywhy on September 01, 2014, 09:00:21 PM
Check fare classes using EF and you can make an educated guess.
Not sure I understand you correctly but this is what I got.

What means "blocked"?

I'm new to this :-\
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« Reply #2433 on: September 01, 2014, 09:37:17 PM »
Quote from: Novo on September 01, 2014, 09:31:07 PM
Not sure I understand you correctly but this is what I got.

What means "blocked"?

I'm new to this :-\

The seats with a "X" but seat maps don't show fare classes, you need to look at fare class not seat map
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« Reply #2434 on: September 01, 2014, 09:40:13 PM »
Quote from: chucksterace on September 01, 2014, 09:37:17 PM
The seats with a "X" but seat maps don't show fare classes, you need to look at fare class not seat map
I know that blocked refers to the seat with an X, just wanna know what a blocked is, for VIPs (people with 10k posts)?


Do I need a premium account to look up fares? I can't find it on the home page.
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« Reply #2435 on: September 01, 2014, 09:59:53 PM »
Quote from: Novo on September 01, 2014, 09:40:13 PM
I know that blocked refers to the seat with an X, just wanna know what a blocked is, for VIPs (people with 10k posts)?


Do I need a premium account to look up fares? I can't find it on the home page.

Yes, I believe so
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« Reply #2436 on: September 01, 2014, 10:02:42 PM »
Quote from: Novo on September 01, 2014, 09:40:13 PM
I know that blocked refers to the seat with an X, just wanna know what a blocked is, for VIPs (people with 10k posts)?


Do I need a premium account to look up fares? I can't find it on the home page.
Dates?
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« Reply #2437 on: September 01, 2014, 10:04:02 PM »
Quote from: chucksterace on September 01, 2014, 09:59:53 PM
Yes, I believe so
So can anyone who has a premium account look it up for me and make the "educated guess"?

I'll pay for this service with a 150k Amex Platinum offer :)

PM me for the dates.
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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2438 on: September 01, 2014, 10:04:45 PM »
Quote from: Novo on September 01, 2014, 10:04:02 PM
So can anyone who has a premium account look it up for me and make the "educated guess"?

I'll pay for this service with a 150k Amex Platinum offer :)

PM me for the dates.
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PM me with details and ill see what I can find

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Re: BA Avios question(s)
« Reply #2439 on: September 02, 2014, 10:47:19 AM »
NYC-YYZ yesterday. only 3 seats available on the 10:20. Book rest of my family on the 10:20 and myself on the 9 AM. Showed up to the airport a few minutes after 9 (we were checking luggage-gotta love flying business, we checked 7 bags, some of them 70 lbs). Kiosk didn't pull up my reservation as the flight had already departed (if I had been a few minutes earlier the kiosk would have been able to put me on the next flight...). Went to the check in desk. Put me standby on the 10:20 no questions asked. No seats in business so I sat in economy.

Lesson learned: if you don't have enough seats on the flight you need just book the previous flight. No need to lie and invoke the "flat tire rule."
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