Originally Posted by
xitek
I tried to search a flight for the weekend after on BA.com. My departure city is Atlanta, and I'm searching for any city around where I can do a 3-day travel.
But I didn't find any tickets with a good timing. I mean all the available flights between Atlanta and some other city are either 2-day round trip or 6-day trip. I would like a 3-day trip. Sorry, I'm new to BA club. But I haven't seen any other airlines fly to so few cities and have so many black-out dates.
I'm wondering if I'm following the correct procedure to book a ticket. Right now I'm just checking BA website for award tickets. Should I check AA.com first and then call BA? I read posts here saying calling BA wastes a lot of time.
Any input is appreciated.
Xitek,
your experience with ba.com and booking a ticket with Avios is very similar to my past experience. There simply are very few seats available to book with Avios. Unlike other FF programs, Executive Club makes it very very very extremely difficult to find proper award seats...
Now, there are plenty of members who'll tell you that the routing you're asking for is a tough on, or the dates are not the best dates to book award seats... but the truth is that if thosse people had any experience with other FF programs, they'd no that it is normally possible for traavellers to book award seats.
What i belive you're currently doing is: searching for a ATL-SLC ticket.. The BA.com search engine says there are no routes available, and asks if you want to search with Partner Airlines, which you accept... Once this is done, you get results with maybe one poor flight time, or plenty of flights on another day... That's the BA way... Nothing you can do about it...
I have been a Executive Club member for over 10 years, and have never managed to book an award seat because I'd rather pay to fly at a proper time thaan change my plans because BA has no award seats remaining...