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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #740 on: July 13, 2014, 05:04:07 PM »
Not sure if this was already mentioned. BA locator numbers can now be pulled up on AA.com.
« Last Edit: July 13, 2014, 05:11:50 PM by sillypainter »

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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #741 on: July 13, 2014, 09:01:50 PM »
Not sure if this was already mentioned. BA locator numbers can now be pulled up on AA.com.
Wow!  Makes things so much easier.
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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #742 on: July 14, 2014, 01:44:12 PM »
Not sure if this was already mentioned. BA locator numbers can now be pulled up on AA.com.
Doesn't work for me.

ETA: Do you mean I can enter a BA record locator into AA.com and it'll pull up the reservation?
« Last Edit: July 14, 2014, 01:47:42 PM by Joe4007 »

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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #743 on: July 14, 2014, 03:38:50 PM »
I am asked to update my profile every time I log on to my ba account. Anyone else have this or know how to avoid this annoying process.
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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #744 on: July 14, 2014, 03:40:07 PM »
I am asked to update my profile every time I log on to my ba account. Anyone else have this or know how to avoid this annoying process.
Yes, so annoying.
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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #745 on: July 14, 2014, 03:41:59 PM »
Yes, so annoying.
I would expect someone who figured out a workaround the painstaking hold time to have figured out a way to avoid this :D :P
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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #746 on: July 14, 2014, 03:43:45 PM »
I would expect someone who figured out a workaround the painstaking hold time to have figured out a way to avoid this :D :P
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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #747 on: July 14, 2014, 08:02:40 PM »
Yes, so annoying.
Just click edit once you don't need to edit info and then  just click update
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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #748 on: July 14, 2014, 08:05:37 PM »
Just click edit once you don't need to edit info and then  just click update
by me it stopped
Tried and failed :'(
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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #749 on: July 14, 2014, 09:05:19 PM »
Doesn't work for me.

ETA: Do you mean I can enter a BA record locator into AA.com and it'll pull up the reservation?

Correct. In the past you had to call or go on finnair.com ( which Btw doesn't work anymore) What did you think it meant?

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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #750 on: July 14, 2014, 09:08:24 PM »
Correct. What did you think it meant?
That's what I figured, but since it didn't work for me I thought maybe you meant that when you pull up the reservation using the AA record locator it'll show the BA record locator as another piece of information.

In any case, what you said didn't work for me.

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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #751 on: July 14, 2014, 09:13:27 PM »
That's what I figured, but since it didn't work for me I thought maybe you meant that when you pull up the reservation using the AA record locator it'll show the BA record locator as another piece of information.

In any case, what you said didn't work for me.

I just tried it again, and it works....

Go here https://www.aa.com/reservation/findReservationAccess.do

Enter your name and BA locator number. That's all, it pulls up.

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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #752 on: July 14, 2014, 09:17:00 PM »
I just tried it again, and it works....

Go here https://www.aa.com/reservation/findReservationAccess.do

Enter your name and BA locator number. That's all, it pulls up.
That's where I'm coming from...


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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #753 on: August 19, 2014, 04:01:48 PM »
Why when I search AA for SEA-LAX there's availability, & on BA there's No availability?

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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #754 on: August 19, 2014, 04:10:57 PM »
Why when I search AA for SEA-LAX there's availability, & on BA there's No availability?

ba.com is known to be bad like that.
Call ba and tell them it's available on AA at saver award.

Or try playing around with ba website.
Example:search a day before or after and then move to ur desired dates
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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #755 on: August 19, 2014, 05:18:11 PM »
Why when I search AA for SEA-LAX there's availability, & on BA there's No availability?
Did you click through? Are there direct flights available?
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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #756 on: August 19, 2014, 06:21:33 PM »
Did you click through? Are there direct flights available?
Yes. See the screenshot.
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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #757 on: August 19, 2014, 07:31:14 PM »
That's an AS route folks, basics...
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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #758 on: August 19, 2014, 07:46:13 PM »
 :-[

Regardless they suck... A few days ago there was an AA flight available in J JFK-LAX and BA showed nothing  >:( I HUCA'd 10 times and nothing! I ended up booking F. F did show up.
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Re: BA.com Award Search Help Master Thread
« Reply #759 on: August 19, 2014, 09:10:46 PM »
That's an AS route folks, basics...
oops.
I didn't even bother looking at the screenshots very well.
Figured it's the regular ba.com problem of not showing availability
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