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An excellent compilation!
A couple of minor suggestions:

1) The discussion of "infant" fares needs to be qualified by noting that on certain routes, lap infants are carried free of charge. (I'm thinking domestic U.S. flights on AA and AS; not sure if there are other exceptions.)

2) I believe that Reward Flight Savers are also offered on BA's intra-Caribbean flights.

I bookings are upgradable to F (Z) on BA.

Thank you for your feedback, comments, and suggestions.

I've made a few amendments:

• Added a reward booking code matrix
• Added a note about JL domestic bookings only being available from 2 months before the date of travel
• Added a note about LAN infant fares. guv1976, I'll looking into your comment about infant fares on AA. Thanks for that
• Added a paragraph on Reward Flight Saver and Fifth Freedom flights. Thanks again, guv1976
• Added greater clarity to the section on A&M
• Expanded on using GUF2s. Thanks r22r44bell47 and corporate-wage-slave

Please do continue to feedback your comments and any suggestions you have on how we can improve the guide.

This is a bit of the BA website where the wording could definitely do with more clarity.

I'm confused on the ability to use BA Avios points to book for other people.

I know that I can book for anyone on my household account. But my friend has a lot of BA points and wants to book tickets for me. We can't figure out any way to do that. As best we can tell, he'd need to NOT have a Household account, and then he might be able to book in other names.

Does that sound correct?

If your friend is not in a HHA, then he should have no problem booking tickets in other names (although always subject to the general restrictions about booking tickets for others - eg not selling, bartering etc).

Yup - he just has more points than he'll use anytime soon.

I guess that's the tradeoff with HHAs. You pool points, but you can only book for those within the HHA.

If he goes off HHA, can he book in any name online, or would he have to call?

I know the feeling well.Once he's out of his HHA, anything that he can book online for himself he will be able to book in someone else's name. It's the same booking process, just as for cash tickets.

I think this is a very good thread covering short haul Euro tickets. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...ost-saver.html

companion award
 

Did I understand that right that if I have 2 companion passes I can use them both with only 1 paid ticket? also if I booked a short haul flight and a better award becomes available will BA change for me? thanks.

Great thread, answered a good few questions.

Using your companion vouchers (Germany)
 

Great Job ^

Concerning the 241 BA Barclay Credit Card Voucher in Germany :

It can also be used one way starting from Germany.

There's instructions for the travel agent at http://www.speedbirdclub.com/res/en/...tions%20v3.pdf

Correction to post 6: it says all CE tickets can be Upgradiosed, which they can't.

Can't upgrade a booking with Avios - any suggestions?
 

Hello all, great thread.

I've encountered a problem trying to upgrading with Avios online (or even see if there is availability).

Our company travel is booked out of the US head office (direct to BA website, not through a TA I believe) using the company credit card (in the name of our CFO, US registered address) and I am UK based.

However the error message I get is odd -

Sorry, you can't upgrade this booking with Avios because at least one passenger is not part of your Household Account.

I am the only passenger on the booking :)

Anyone come across this before? I have spoken to BA and they couldn't help & have passed it to their web team.

Could the US registered CC in another name used for the booking be the issue?

Thanks for any help!