BA American Express card fee to make a BA booking
#16
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Stratford upon Avon
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I have read about this. I have booked a cruise for Alaska and paid a deposit of £600 plus 2.5% MasterCard fee £15 a few months ago. The balance (£3,500)is payable in mid February 2018. The agent said I would have to pay the 2.5% card fee! I hope this is not true and I should not have to pay this outrageous fee. Will wait and see ...
#18
Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club, easyJet and Ryanair
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: UK/Las Vegas
Programs: BA Gold (GGL/CCR)
Posts: 15,914
I have read about this. I have booked a cruise for Alaska and paid a deposit of £600 plus 2.5% MasterCard fee £15 a few months ago. The balance (£3,500)is payable in mid February 2018. The agent said I would have to pay the 2.5% card fee! I hope this is not true and I should not have to pay this outrageous fee. Will wait and see ...
#20
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#21
FlyerTalk Evangelist
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And it’s already unlawful, if memory serves, to charge a fee materially in excess of the actual cost to the merchant of processing the payment, which is more like 0.7% these days.
#22
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#23
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You will see different attitudes on FT about the propriety of being asked a straight question and giving an answer that you know to be untrue, just because the lie will save twenty quid.
#24
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#25
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Location: London
Programs: Mucci. Nothing else matters.
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Very different scenarios: It's BA's business to operate flights, but it's not BA's business to operate a credit card. Nobody could reasonably think that BA is representing that the card is anything other than an American Express credit card that has some British Airways affinity branding with some associated benefits. And nowhere is there any promise that this particular American Express credit card is exempt from BA's credit card fees.
#26
Join Date: Jul 2014
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#28
Join Date: Nov 2014
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#29
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Always amazing me people expect a customer to have a higher moral integrity that the company providing the service.