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Old Jul 28, 2015 | 11:11 am
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Originally Posted by miadeals
This is for a domestic flight on AA metal.

If I book an "infant" award with my avios, its charges me 10% of the miles for her ticket, but it allows me to select flights that only have 2 seats available (me, wife, and infant traveling) which leads me to believe I'm getting charged 10% for a lap child (which is free on AA.) So, do I have to book an adult award ticket so that she gets her own seat? Will it even let me?

I do not want to have a lap infant. I would prefer getting her her own seat, but cheapest way possible.
If you want your infant child to have her own seat then you have to book her ticket as an adult. For this you have to call (or follow the procedure detailed by mattolo and dyrewolf in the first thread listed below). If you want her to travel on your lap, do nothing with BA at the moment. After your avios award tickets are issued call AA to add the lap infant for free.
See these threads:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...ant-avios.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...s-booking.html
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