Frequentflyer99

Has anyone worked out whether this is for EU originating flights only. Does it work for ex USA flights booked from the UK (I'm abroad and havent had time to work through a dummy booking) ?

Kiwi Flyer

Apologies for bumping this. I did a quick search and this thread seems most appropriate.

I am not familiar with BA at all and am trying to book a UK domestic flight but ba.com says must be UK credit card to pay for it. What is the best way around this? I am NZ based if it makes any difference.

ScottC

Have you tried just going ahead with the payment? Sometimes a site will SAY one thing, but do the other, perhaps it'll go through?

710 77345

Try aa.com - the ticket might be cheaper too!

JAP

Funny you should mention this ScottC - A friend of mine (!!) might have done just this on a number of occasions without any problems

Kiwi Flyer

Thanks - will let you know if it works.

Kiwi Flyer

Yup worked - thanks a lot

ScottC

NP.

BA really need to remove that message, I'm sure that it's costing them a lot of passengers.

norodnik

ScottC, yes, I booked a ticket to DME for my US colleague, using her US Credit Card and just put my home address.

Worked fine, and no body even asked for the credit card at the airport ?

Kiwi Flyer

Okay that seemed to work for purchasing eticket.

Now I have another booking which despite not appearing on the lists of places you cant eticket, comes up wanting a paper ticket. Now of course country is wrong so it wont get mailed to me. Any ideas on how to overcome this?

Roger

Phone them. They'll charge an extra �10 for this.

BUT I'm still waiting for a paper ticket said to have been posted from BA Bremen (acting for VIE) on 31 August. Several calls to VIE assure me that the ticket is simply delayed in the post - yes, perhaps, but I need the ticket.

I'll try again tomorrow. If no sense, then I guess I'll have to cancel and book am ore expensive fare elsewhere .

And all because the convenient BA codeshare was unavailable on a HP domestic flight. Spending an extra 6 hours at SFO would have got me a BA flight number for a HP flight and an e-ticket.

bertheike

what�s with departing ex tip ? Does this work too ?

spotwelder

Hi, I am actively working on the ex TIPs. I have a friend who was working in TIP and it appears to be a nightmare. She had to phone the BA office 36 hours in advance just to confirm that the confirmed ticket was confirmed.

She was not too hopeful that Mrs. X, the BA manager would be able to sort this out. If these fares could be issued in the UK or e-tkt then fine. TIP does not have computers! Everything is manual.

Remember, if you cannot get off the aircraft, what are you going to do? I doubt that BA would let you on the aircraft to pick up the ticket without a visa. Then the visa requires you to stay on an organised tour etc. That requires an invite from the locals as so it goes on.

Perhaps, if the US Embassy is going to be restarted there, you may be able to arrange a visit to the Embassy.

The fares are worth pursuit and I will let you know when I have cracked it.

It's a long way to TIParary, it's a long way to Sydney and back home,

bertheike

Iam working on this too!
1.) There are some TA�s with AMADEUS IATA there !
2.) They can issue all kind of tickets you want ! SITI !
3.) The VISA and invitation is not a real problem, VISA is around 50 USD, invitation around the same! + your Passport must be translated into arabic language with a special print around 30 USD !
4.) Some important rules for these IATA fullfares in "F" are:
--max. 12 segments
--HIP rule, if stops longer than 23h.59m.
--at the moment no creditcards accepted
--all agents I know charge a backshisch around 200USD per issued ticket if you are not there in person to buy it
--lifting the first coupon, or using it not in the right sequence is dangerous ! They may not honor the rest of thr ticket
--But if you hit all this, you travel in first to Australia under 1500 GBP rt. ^

Kiwi Flyer

Frustratingly I can break the trip into 2 RTs and book each of those separately and get e-tickets but not all together

I am reluctant to do this though because the price is substantially higher (and possibly lose the protected connections).