How to book American Airlines flights with Avios whilst ba.com is not working properly

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• Mr Dee says:

  3 Jun3 June 09:26

  Can’t transfer to Avios.com from either Iberia or BA, so assume they have blocked it

  • IanT says:

    3 Jun3 June 09:36

    You would think if it was a permanent block they’d actually have a response which told you so, oh and maybe remove the link from the main page.

    Or am I expecting too much… ?

• Kevin H says:

  3 Jun3 June 09:45

  Anyone any feel for how much notice BA will give for the effective date of their upcoming devaluation? If they announce it on, say, 4th June, is it likely to be effective the following day, week or month (or longer) – at least based on previous experience?

  • Mark says:

    3 Jun3 June 11:42

    Last time they were nice and gave some notice. I think it would depend on what changes they’re making.

    For example, if they are keeping the 4 + 2, but additionally allowing people to use Avios to purchase tickets in traditional non-redemption classes (for more Avios), then i’d imagine a move like that wouldn’t need any notice given.

• Mark says:

  3 Jun3 June 10:03

  The Indian call centre open from 10pm-6am GGL line can see availability.

• Terri says:

  3 Jun3 June 10:14

  I had another problem with BA avios website last week when trying to book an AA redemption.

  I did eventually manage to get the BA website to bring up the AA reward flights using the multiple repeat method. However, I then could not enter the names of any passengers other than those already connected to my account. The boxes to put in new names were grayed out and the typing feature not working. I tried several browsers without success – each time having to repeatedly search to get the flights again.

  I gave up and called EC. Booked it on the phone – 38 minutes wait time before call picked-up on silver line and another 30 minutes to get it sorted. It was acknowledged there was a problem and the fee was waived. It took half my day getting the reward flights booked. The child in my party has been entered as an adult but i’m not going to let that worry me!

• Thomas Howard says:

  3 Jun3 June 11:44

  If AA redemptions are charged according to the Avios redemption chart in points, does that mean you’d also pay BA surcharges?

  • Mikeact says:

    3 Jun3 June 11:56

    Sadly,yes.

  • Rob says:

    3 Jun3 June 11:58

    Yes

• James T says:

  3 Jun3 June 17:07

  Rob

  Slightly off topic. Do Avis post the bonus Virgin miles separately from the base miles. My account shows only the base 500 miles from the recent offer. Or is this a sign of a glitch in the system to be followed up? Cheers.

  • Leo says:

    3 Jun3 June 17:53

    They do post them separately but mine have posted (separately) at the same time on 2 occasions -so yes you need to look into it I’d say. Did you use the link?

    • James Templeton says:

      4 Jun4 June 09:33

      Yes I did. Thanks Leo.

  • Rob says:

    3 Jun3 June 22:11

    Not sure to be honest.

• DaveL says:

  3 Jun3 June 17:41

  Totally OT, but I’m on a ba flight which is going to be delayed over two hours but likely less than three (within EU, under 1,500km). The aircraft has been boarded after 1+ he delay and meet moved to a ‘remote stand’ by ATX for a further 1hr wait, so it has technically departed but will be over two hours late at destination.

  Technically we would be entitled to food/drink due to length of delay in terminal, but since they boarded the aircraft there is no way to spend vouchers and nothing being offered.

  Should I just ‘get over it’ or should I expect BA to at least throw a few avios our way to make up? I get that these things happen but it has been a frustrating experience on many fronts.

  • Thomas Howard says:

    3 Jun3 June 18:09

    I’ve been delayed 36 hours due to weather and got nothing but my hotel bill. The really annoying thing is a Ryanair flight from the same airport to Stansted made it on time.

  • Genghis says:

    3 Jun3 June 18:14

    You’re still entitled to F&B 2 hrs+. No mention in regs of still being in terminal. Ie. Ask for BoB items

    • the real harry1 says:

      4 Jun4 June 01:03

      There were plenty of delays today out of our airport including our flight – reason was ATC-related so no chance of compo, we had an ATC delay on plane arriving @ airport before turnaround then sat there like prize plums for an hour until European ATC permitted plane to take to the skies, we never got over 2 hrs delay mark so no duty of care to be invoked, the crew did come round giving out water but I’d already liberated a couple of big bottles from the lounge 🙂

      @Thomas Howard – you were entitled to hotel, food, drink (not alcohol) and cost of communications – if they were reluctant to offer this, just claim it back later with receipts, they don’t have a leg to stand on as long as you were reasonable, £200 limit for a hotel room is reasonable but more if there’s no alternative available.

      @DaveL – as Genghis said – ignore the fact that nothing is being offered but on board just buy the M&S stuff/ drinks (not alcohol), keep receipts, claim back later. Or feasibly grab something to eat landside once you arrive 2 hrs late, you were famished due to the delay and have a legit duty of care claim.

      • the real harry1 says:

        4 Jun4 June 01:23

        There was some daft American woman who – when she heard we might be sitting on the ground for 90 mins – loudly started demanding she be given the right to get off the plane, not sure if she was panicking or missing a connection & thought she might find another way to get to LHR faster? As I said, daft. The cabin crew first said (they were discussing this right up front next to me in row 5) that she had a perfect right to self off-load & I was thinking OMG, she’ll have checked in luggage so here comes another half hour delay on top, he told her to go back to her seat somewhere deep in the BITB section while he went to ask the captain if it was possible. As I said, OMG scenario. But then I saw that he just sort of hid around the corner for a few minutes and had a wee chuckle with one of his oppos, next thing they secured the doors and she must have calmed down or got the message no way Jose because she was heard from no more, by me at least. Our 90 mins just waiting for ATC to give the go-ahead got reduced to about an hour then the plane made up another 20 mins so not such a bad result, hope she got her connection or whatever it was she was upsetting herself about.

• ankomonkey says:

  3 Jun3 June 20:46

  BA also have the temerity to keep sending me the Club Magazine e-mail while the free competitions have been claiming my valid e-mail address is in an invalid format for several months. While I rarely fly them anymore because every aspect has become ‘meh’, I would like to win most of the random prizes they offer this way. The signed Creole cookery book I won from a Club competition a couple of years ago was a great Xmas gift for my brother. Sadly, I’ve had to pay for his presents the last couple of years…

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