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Old Dec 16, 2009 | 2:21 pm
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globalste
 
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Originally Posted by binman

A pet hate however is that this card does not get you out of the BA £5 charge per ticket per passenger when booking dircetly with the airline. Recently bough 4 seats to Germany and had to stomp up £20 for a transaction completed entirely on line and with e tickets. This worked out at 5.5% of the fare costs and seemed utterly disproportionate. Nor is it waived when if spending several thousand pounds on a club or first ticket.
BA have a lot of issues to resolve and this is just one but for the moment I would prefer they kept flying.
Cheers Binman, and welcome to Flyertalk

You're right about the exchange rate, I did notice it was quite high ($1.64!) but I had never noticed the seperate fee for commission. Your post would explain this.

There is a way to reduce the CC fee on BA.com, if you search on here you will find it. BA dont charge on rewards either, but this will probably get enhanced.
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