Can I use my Amex for Companion Voucher booking from my wife’s account?

[HughR]

We want to make an online companion voucher booking from my wife’s BA account. We have temporarily, I hope, mislaid her card. Can we use my BA Amex Card? I seem to recall it used to be the case that you were supposed to use a card in your own name, but I am not sure if this is still the case?

[BA Flyer IHG Stayer]

As long as an Amex is used it doesn’t seem to cause any problems it being someone elses name

[Eoc]

Be a little wary. Last years I had my paying for return leg on wife’s voucher cancelled a week after it was accepted by agent. Then re instated while we were abroad. Meaning when check in time came we couldn’t get seats. An hour and a half frame in phone from Cost Rica solved it. But be wary.

[Eoc]

Sorry , doing this on my phone is irritating. It was recancelled while abroad because we had supposedly used a wrong card- not my wife’s. I’ve done this many times using plat cards , gold cards etc but now I am circumspect.

[NorthernLass]

I also had issues when booking the return leg of a 241 booking and my laptop auto-filled the wrong Amex details. When I went on chat to request the 50% avios back, I was refused because of the name discrepancy, so had to cancel and rebook.

However, when you redeem the actual voucher, doesn’t it have the voucher holder’s name filled in an anyway, I can’t remember?

[HughR]

Thanks for the feedback. I will carry on looking for the card. Its in the house, we put it somewhere safe as we are not using it to avoid triggering our next voucher but we now can’t remember where we put it!

[VinZ]

I’m not sure what the fuss is about. When paying online, or over the phone for what it matters, you can use your card and say it’s in your wife’s name. I don’t think they can check that and the payment system either as far as I know – they can only check the numbers associated with the account (long card number, security, date and numbers in the address). I’ve been doing this for year for work and not a single problem, with any card I’ve used.