Originally Posted by USA_flyer
The answer, in short, is no. The airlines segment the market to prevent us Brits from using our credit cards, with UK addresses on American websites.
I'm not sure that this is
entirely correct (but then perhaps I'm straying into territory best described as "the answer, in long"
).
I think that some US sites have access to fare buckets not available in the UK, e.g. Looking at KLM LHR-ATH at the weekend I was able to get a much cheaper flight on aa.com than on KLM's UK site.
That said, the same trick used to work with BA flights, but hasn't worked for me recently - perhaps tightened up as
USA_flyer says.
That that said said, I've seen it said that you can get around this by calling BA's ticket office in the US, which has access to those buckets...
I trust that has sufficiently muddied the waters
chris78cpr you could always do what I did and open a bank account in the USA...