olouie

Thank you for allowing airlines to get away with false advertising!

It would be one thing if they just didn't offer the $135 discount on WT+ or I would even accept them continuing promoting the discount but not putting the "Discount" label on the fares. Hey thats the way things go. But its super shady to advertise the discount, put a "Discount" label on it, but actually price it exactly the same (or even higher) than the public pricing.

fotoflyer88

Somehow I managed to get my fare a whole $15 less than what google flights showed originally... so I hope AARP enjoys the donation (since it was basically a wash)

Maybe better luck next year

Steve in Olympia

I, like the vast majority of users, have saved hundreds of dollars through the AARP discount, which is essentially a freebie. (If you can't get $15 worth of vlue from your AARP membership fee, then you have other problems.)

Sure, the AARP discount has some technical quirks, but actually filing a complaint is certinly looking a gift horse in the mouth.

olouie

Sorry, but not going to agree with you here. If BA advertises a discount, claims it is giving you that discount, but doesn't actually give you the discount then its certainly worth a complaint. Its not a technical quirk if the discount never works on WTP fares. There is nothing to stop them from just doing the same to CW discount on AARP. Like I said, if they were honest about it and didn't slap a the "Discount" label on the fares when there is no discount then its all fair game. But to do so when there is no actual discount is super dishonest.

I wonder how many people would change their tune if suddenly this "technical quirk" was applied to all of the fares and not just WTP.

Fraser

Are the Chase discount and AARP stills stackable, and plan to be going forward?

For a while I've been doing this with no problem. I just went to price up a February Club World (I Class) JFK-LON-JFK itinerary through the AARP portal and the discount. When I put in the CARDOFFERU discount code two errors flagged, one of which was saying that the offer code could not be used for these travel dates (at that time I figured out the Chase discount is yet to be extended for 2018!) but the other read, "Sorry, CARDOFFERU may not be used in conjunction with some discounted fares. Please refer to the promotion rules"

Is this accurate or just being flagged or for some reason because that discount code cannot yet be used on 2018 travel? I did do a dummy booking through AARP with the Chase discount for December travel and it did not flag when I put the Chase offer code in.

worldtrav

As recently as last week I stacked them both, for travel in 2017.

Fly2Where

Cardofferu is good lill 31 Dec 2017. Haven't load into 2018 yet. I had no problem to stack for flights in 2017.
https://www.britishairways.com/en-us...visa-signature

channa

The sad thing is it's probably a programming error or bug, and we have no liaison who knows how to navigate BA to fix it. If there were a BA Insider who could get this in the right group's hands, it could probably be fixed in short order.

MADPhil

I don't know if "BA.com Official" is still active but you could try that.

olouie

FWIW it looks like the UK ASA is pretty worthless. Their resolution is to inform the advertiser about the issue, but since it’s a self regulatory group there is no enforcement or anything. The ASA replied that while they agreed there was an issue they could not do anything since BA was already made aware of of the inaccuracies before. So looks like it’s at the mercy of BA IT, who isn’t in any hurry to fix things.

BOStonTravels

This is such a longstanding problem and many on this board have reported to both BA and AARP — neither seem able to solve it and there is general confusion suggesting they aren’t in a hurry and don’t care...

ameskay

If I'm booking 3 tickets with BA, do I need every person to have an AARP account, and need to book each separately?

Steve in Olympia

ExpatExp

Hey, a 0% discount is a 0% discount

ijkh

Did you know you can not upgrade with AVIOS or miles with these discounted tickets? I didn't. For that reason I for one will NEVER use this discount again. It was not clear in the terms and conditions at the time of sale. We are stuck in WTP even though a BA phone agent verbally promised us an upgrade with AVIOS. So I transfered some Amex MR points into AVIOS. Next she says opps sorry I can't do this. So angry. I did ask for a supervisor who proved BA deserves it reputation for poor service. So we have 60 k orphan AVIOS. Very unhappy about the bait and switch. Historically I have upgraded with AVIOS this very same ticket with the AARP discount WTP to CW last year. grumble grumble.


Yes I did book a WTP itinerary Yes it did save me a few dollars. I just went back to AARP link to BA and noticed there are no longer any discounts for WTP as of January 2018.