Booking children / young adult using Avios

[megoi]

Hi All,

Does anyone know if it is possible to book children / young adults (11 + 13 year old) without an adult on the same booking using Avios over the phone?

I would book myself on a cash ticket as there are only 2 avios seats available each way.

Many thanks

[NorthernLass]

You can’t combine cash and avios bookings, and you also can’t make a standalone booking for a child under 14, so you may be struggling with this combination of passengers and available seats.

[JDB]

@megol – yes, BA will allow this but, as you suggest, it needs to be done over the telephone. It’s quite a common scenario for children to have separate bookings as maybe a different parent or a grandparent travels with the children on the outbound vs the return. It will be on two separate bookings (and it doesn’t matter than one is cash and the other Avios) that BA will link and the children won’t be able to check-in without you.

[megoi]

Many thanks @JDB and @NorthernLass

When I tried to make the avios booking for my 2 kids online, it asked me to phone to book.

I will give them a call. Linking to my cash booking is ideal.

[SteveJ]

Does the maths work to book it this way? At face value I would’ve thought it cheaper for the Adult to be on the Avios booking and the child on the cash booking?

[ClubSmed]

SteveJ wrote:

Does the maths work to book it this way? At face value I would’ve thought it cheaper for the Adult to be on the Avios booking and the child on the cash booking?

Depends if the adult needs the tier points or not…

[megoi]

@ClubSmed – that is exactly it. Only 2 seats left each way and I would rather have the TPs than give them to my kids!!

[megoi]

@JDB – many thanks. Successfully booked over the phone and bookings linked.

@SteveJ – why would a cash ticket be cheaper for a kid. Lower taxes?

[Froggee]

Children pay 75% of the fare (excluding fees/taxes).

This can be quite a chunk on hefty fares.