kaiotes

Booked two tickets in economy under one locator. If business availability opens up fir thr same flight how much change fee will I incur + mileage difference?
$55 or $55*2 or none? I am assuming 55*2?
Thanks

BA6501

The fee is per passenger.

debster369

BobServant

Domestics come out at T-355. Worth checking you can see EDI-LGW availability "standalone" in Club Europe. If so, try saying "yes" to a stopover but fly EDI-LGW and LGW-MCO on the same day, that may work if you have enough time between flights. Otherwise I'd given them a phone. If there's no reward available, or just Euro Traveller also try calling, they can sometimes force availability or book ET/ CW combo.

Another issue I've had for the return flight is with overnight flights. If you book your long haul at the limit of availability then the domestic leg won't be available. Here, just book the long haul then phone up to add the connection the next day. It's easier to do this within 24 hours of original booking, but I've never been charged a change fee if I don't manage to sort it until a few days later.

debster369

vinyalwhl

Has anyone gotten into a situation where the stop repeatedly asks you if you want a stopover?? I have tried different browsers and devices, same BS. Tried bugging them on twitter and they told me to clear my damn cookies. Apparently these are shared between devices.

flashware

Reported quite often on here: Issues, bugs and glitches on ba.com website [Please keep thread clutter-free!]

onlysuites

If I booked a Multi carrier award starting in Brazil with stops in the USA and UK will the flights on BA attract YQ? Technically they shouldn't as it would be one ticket and no YQ is allowed on tickets issued from Brazil.

BA6501

Most likely, as BA like charging YQ on these flights anyway unless challenged and pushed sufficiently far.

radoak

im trying to see if its worth my while to change avion pts to avios and when i try flights to see what pts and taxes are , never works , says u want a stop over or not , click no , still get nothing , can anyone tell me what aa flights within usa or canada are like for taxes and avios pts , say bos to mia for example ., ive read taxes on flights to europe are high, so like to know if north america is better deal for pts.

guv1976

There are no carrier surcharges collected by BAEC for AA redemptions for travel wholly within the Americas (North and South, including Hawaii and the Caribbean).

BAEC charges for each flight flown, so a nonstop on AA will typically cost fewer BAEC Avios than connections. A BOS-MIA nonstop, assuming you can find "MileSAAver" availability at aa.com, should be bookable for 10,000 BAEC Avios one way in Economy Class; Business Class would be double that. Fees would be $5.60 each way, in either class of service.

radoak

thank u for the info , so if i find a flight with aa , i have to phone BAEC to book it, i cannot book it on there website ?

guv1976

If you find a flight on aa.com with MileSAAver availability, you should be able to find and book that flight with Avios at ba.com. If you find connecting flights on aa.com with MileSAAver availability, and the connection does not show up on an award search at ba.com, you can either call a BAEC Service Center, or book each flight individually at ba.com -- subject to the caveat about AA's policy not to through-check bags on separate tickets.

DCEsquire

Hi

New to the forum. Wish Chase has posted a link to this before I embarked on my goal to get the 100k Avios points!

I don't know if this is my ignorance, a website issue or just par for the course with Avios points. I've been trying to do searches from IAD-LHR and it keeps telling me there is an error or no flights available for award tickets. Is it possible that there is a program that is worse than Sky Pesos? As a United 1k maybe I'm spoiled.

In general is it very challenging to get these award tickets and anything but obscure routes? Looking online it appears there will be significant fees in redeeming the rewards as well.

Thanks

PETER01

Hello DCEsquire and welcome over to the BA Forum and thanks for your question. I've no experience at all re Chase Visa but if I can point you in the right direction as below including about Avios. There is a BA Chase thread and if you want to read up on getting the most from your Avios there is another thread which I've linked below.

Doing a straight redemption enquiry on ba.com I can see quite good availability from October onwards for IAD to LHR with no issues looking and there's very little before then but that's understandable given it's now the peak summer season and a lot of the award seats will have been snapped up long ago.

Your guide to spending Avios | 2017 edition

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-club/1812259-your-guide-spending-avios-2017-edition.html

The sweet spot, and this is just my personal opinion as everyone values avios differently to get the most value out of them is I think, buying World Traveller Plus seats and using Avios to upgrade to business class and there's more info in the threads above including this one but there has to be availability to do that. The plus side for that is you'll earn avios for buying cash tickets.

The taxes, fees etc can be high using Avios for straight redemptions and it's all very subjective. The other alternative is look at nearby airports which may suit you to travel from but in the meantime any questions please add them here with dates, class of travel you're looking for etc and replies can be more specific.

There is an issue at the moment booking AA flights on ba.com.

Issues, bugs and glitches on ba.com website [Please keep thread clutter-free!]

Hopefully others with more experience than myself can advise but as I said upthread more details would be helpful in providing an answer. BAEC works well for me and many others and overall it's quite a good programme compared to many.