How to find a British Airways office open at any time (eg midnight for 241 bookings)

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• zark says:

  3 Jan3 January 05:35

  Once you have booked the one way on an Amex 241 redemption as described, I do not believe it is possible to book the return on line when it becomes available. Hence I do not believe BA will charge the £35 ‘change’ fee as it cannot be done on line.

  • pointsarb says:

    3 Jan3 January 05:46

    Yes, I can confirm that I was not charged the £35 (x4 for a family of four) fee when adding the return legs to 2 * 241 redemptions in F. Ba’s U First call centre sorted this for me quickly and efficiently.

    • Anon says:

      3 Jan3 January 07:11

      Agreed this is my experience too, never paid the £35 to book rtn leg of a 241 over the phone.

• aliks says:

  3 Jan3 January 05:45

  I think they will waive the upgrade cost in this instance.

• Mark Phillips says:

  3 Jan3 January 06:03

  BA has a special code that they use which waives the amendment fee in this scenario when the inbound flight is added to an outbound flight booking that had been made previously before the inbound flight is available.

• Barbara says:

  3 Jan3 January 06:16

  This is very useful, planning on booking a first class trip to Abu Dhabi, for august ’18, what’s is the likelihood there will be seats available?

  • Genghis says:

    3 Jan3 January 08:05

    Likely if you’re up at t-355 both times

    • Rob says:

      3 Jan3 January 08:11

      Not for First Class. There are no guaranteed F seats released and, if they keep a 787-9 on the route, there are only 8 seats in F so little chance of much coming up. Usually LOADS of F into Dubai, though, so may be better to go there and pay £40 for a taxi.

    • Brian says:

      3 Jan3 January 08:15

      Bit late for that, I guess… :))

      • Brian says:

        3 Jan3 January 08:57

        Ignore that! – an edit function would be great…

  • Barbara says:

    3 Jan3 January 13:16

    What a shame, I was hoping to try out the 787-9, guess I will save the points and go via Dubai.

    • Rob says:

      3 Jan3 January 14:53

      Club World is freely available and, if you book Row 6 or 7, you are in the mini-cabin at the front which is just 2 rows of seats and very private. Not bad at all. I did a review of it if you search (link should be on the Favourites page).

    • Yuff says:

      3 Jan3 January 18:11

      Barbara,

      I got 4 seats, in F, to Abu Dubai for October half term this year.
      I didn’t want the return flight as it was overnight and tried to get Dubai flights on BA and virgin but none came available so booked Etihad flights.
      I think you have a good chance in August 18, at T-355, of bagging some F seats.

• Martin says:

  3 Jan3 January 06:58

  I have booked 241 tickets several times grabbing first sectors ar t-355 and then adding subsequent sectors as they became available, once even using USA BA EX call centre and I have never been charged for the service. They do not charge to perform any changes that cannot be done on line. You just need to give the booking reference of the first sector, the ticket then goes to the ‘back office’ to marry up with new sector, which takes a couple of weeks usually. Apparently they are dealt with in order of departure date.

• Steven Hannah says:

  3 Jan3 January 06:58

  I called the NY call centre at midnight UK to book return flights from Sydney as soon as they went on sale. I couldn’t get through on my Uk phone as it knew I was in the UK and would not permit the call, so had to call on skype instead, which worked fine

  • Waribai says:

    3 Jan3 January 07:00

    I’m 99% sure that when I tried this, I was told to contact the UK call centre….

  • Anon says:

    3 Jan3 January 07:17

    I found it ironic and amusingly comforting that phoning the BAEC USA call centre at 23:55 GMT routes you through to a friendly Geordie on Tyneside. Hoooawwaaay. 🙂

    • Rp says:

      3 Jan3 January 15:54

      Especially when you live down the road from the call centre! My agent kindly called me back (I couldn’t be bothered to Skype!)

  • Yuff says:

    3 Jan3 January 07:35

    I turn phone ID off on my phone and call the number used, whilst abroad, and get through no problem;)

  • Grimz says:

    3 Jan3 January 08:11

    I also called the USA and the guy refused to take my booking and said I had to call the UK and book from there. I called back 20 mins later and got the same guy and refused again saying I must call UK at 7.30am.

• Martin says:

  3 Jan3 January 07:01

  As for Abu Dhabi I picked up two first tickets for Feb. Only last week so they appear wide open, good availability to Qatar also.

• Martin says:

  3 Jan3 January 07:08

  I thought the call centres are all in the UK, just changing numbers and opening hours to accommodate time changes.

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