help booking open jaw
Dec 21, 2015, 7:02 am
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help booking open jaw
Hi
Trying to book
LHR/TXL/NUE
NUE/TXL
TXL-LHR
Cannot get this to book on-line on BA.com, but pricing the sectors on the web comes to £257.
Phoned BA they want £1409 on the phone (in Economy!)
When the NUE/TXL is removed it dropped to the bargain price of £640.
I want to keep the booking as one to protect the transfer at TXL on the way out.
Any advise how i can book this?
Thanks
Trying to book
LHR/TXL/NUE
NUE/TXL
TXL-LHR
Cannot get this to book on-line on BA.com, but pricing the sectors on the web comes to £257.
Phoned BA they want £1409 on the phone (in Economy!)
When the NUE/TXL is removed it dropped to the bargain price of £640.
I want to keep the booking as one to protect the transfer at TXL on the way out.
Any advise how i can book this?
Thanks
Dec 21, 2015, 7:09 am
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To confirm you want LHR-TXL-NUE outbound on one date, NUE-TXL on another date, TXL-LHR on another date?
There is probably not a fare that allows a stopover at TXL, so it is pricing as full fare Y tickets combining end on end.
Why not book LHR-TXL-NUE on one ticket, which for some random date I can find for £90, and book NUE-TXL and TXL-LHR separately?
Dec 21, 2015, 7:36 am
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Airberlin.com for the middle bit
23/2 internal
24/2 back
Do you need the whole itinerary on one ticket?
To confirm you want LHR-TXL-NUE outbound on one date, NUE-TXL on another date, TXL-LHR on another date?
no not really, just easier to manage in MMB etc.
Why not book LHR-TXL-NUE on one ticket, which for some random date I can find for £90, and book NUE-TXL and TXL-LHR separately?
To confirm you want LHR-TXL-NUE outbound on one date, NUE-TXL on another date, TXL-LHR on another date?
no not really, just easier to manage in MMB etc.
Why not book LHR-TXL-NUE on one ticket, which for some random date I can find for £90, and book NUE-TXL and TXL-LHR separately?
Seems strange to me how akward this is, have done many similar trips in the USA and was so much easier, on the phone at BA even booking non OW flights into 1 booking for me.
Thanks for your help
Dec 21, 2015, 9:43 am
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I can't immediately see any obvious reason why the BA call centre wouldn't be able to reproduce the price shown on a site like ITA, which gives me prices starting from £167.01 for those dates. You would need to make sure that they are pricing using exactly the same flight numbers, dates and booking classes.
Dec 21, 2015, 9:54 am
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The cheapest BA fare for LHR-NUE that allows a stopover in Berlin seems to be the H class fare at GBP478 plus taxes . In business class , the D class fare allows it at GBP613 plus taxes
Pricing up using random flights on that day, aa.com is offering the B class fare ( BV3R ) for GBP795 including taxes
The only way I can see it being GBP257 is with end-on-end ticketing but I expect that BA is not going to offer end-on-end ticketing where it is offering its own fares for the route ( e.g. LHR-NUE / TXL-LHR open jaw return plus a one way NUE-TXL )
You may get a decent travel agent to do it
Pricing up using random flights on that day, aa.com is offering the B class fare ( BV3R ) for GBP795 including taxes
The only way I can see it being GBP257 is with end-on-end ticketing but I expect that BA is not going to offer end-on-end ticketing where it is offering its own fares for the route ( e.g. LHR-NUE / TXL-LHR open jaw return plus a one way NUE-TXL )
You may get a decent travel agent to do it
Last edited by Dave Noble; Dec 21, 2015 at 10:03 am
Dec 21, 2015, 10:11 am
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I can't immediately see any obvious reason why the BA call centre wouldn't be able to reproduce the price shown on a site like ITA, which gives me prices starting from £167.01 for those dates. You would need to make sure that they are pricing using exactly the same flight numbers, dates and booking classes.
the way she said £1409 for that booking like it was normal
Dec 21, 2015, 10:13 am
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