Originally Posted by
Shingi
Wow, I thought I’d been lightening quick as it was. It was just choosing the connection I guess that slowed me down and the Thursday DUR/LHR direct didn’t even show on the options to begin with, just the ones via JNB. Luckily I am very flexible with dates, being retired, so will just carry on trying and thank you for your replies which make absolute sense and I won’t phone BA and I won’t worry about the PayPal transaction showing up as I am sure that it will drop off.
If you pre-register a card with BAEC you can speed things up, you only need to enter the CCV at that stage in the transaction. There are security issues with this however so you need to use a card from a bank which can rectify the impact of any data leaks. The other thing some people do is call BA using the USA number using Skype just before midnight and then get the agent to grab the seats at the start of the transaction then work through the payment process. However I am not sure how Paypal works on telephone bookings.