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Old Dec 6, 2012 | 4:16 pm
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taliesin
 
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Originally Posted by yoyo
The second day I decided to save my AA points and use up my BA points for the return trip but when I did a search on BA.com for CX, the HGH->JFK via HKG was just not available at all. What was strange was that the individual segments were, however, available. I called BA but they could not tell me why or how to proceed with the booking so I ended up with two booking HGH->HKG and then HKG->JFK instead of HGH->HKG->JFK on one record locator. Does anyone know why that is the case with BA? Did I ended up paying more BA points or surcharge (I think I ended about $300 fuel surcharge and 85K BA points for each biz ticket on CX).
BA prices award tickets by segment, not according to origin and destination, so you have to pay 15k for the HGH-HKG segment and another 70k for the HKG-JFK segment. I still don't know why you can't book it all on one ticket though.
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