Originally Posted by
panxta
Thank you all for comments in this excellent thread! I gathered a lot of insigth why things happened why they did, and how to solve the issue in the future.
Fee (80 chf) was clearly quoted by service rep, and I accepted it. No problems/wrong doing with this particular fee, since I was just looking to get the booking done. The 80 CHF is not a deal breaker for me, regarding this award, I just generally think that it is quite a lot of money. However, since I plan to do this in the future as well, I though it would be nice to gather some insight how to reduce these costs in the future.
I have already 3 excellent solutions that I´m planning to try in the future:
1) Shop around for different service rep
2) Book it on the phone, Pay it online.
3) Got my self EUR nominated swiss CC (Visa).
Hi all!
I decided to revive this thread due to some more recent experience in booking OW award SYD - HEL from AA.
1) Shop around for different service rep didnt work. I tried 3 and they all quoted the same 80 chf fee. It olso takes about 20 mins to do the booking online, so this was time consuming and yet expensive. It looks like that AA got this covered.
2) I tried to pay online, but none of my 3 CC´s are working in aa.com.
3) I have Swiss EUR nominated Visa, but this didnt work either. Personally I blame the Swiss banking system that is from the stone age when it comes to electronic payments.
I have yet to try the address change, but otherwise I´m runnign out of solutions again
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