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The babybus (Sweden<> East Coast) Fare meetup thread

Old Nov 20, 2018, 2:27 am
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Jul 31st
1320 BA780 LHR>ARN mtikky
1700 BA782 LHR>ARN vintagepilot, squawk
20:05 BA786 LHR>ARN bisonrav,Wozza2404

Aug 1st
0705 BA776 LHR>ARN IFE Wizard
1255 AY808 ARN>HEL bisonrav, mtikky, Wozza2404, squawk
1300 AY864 GOT>HEL awoxp, gosha
1315 AY804 ARN>HEL IFE Wizard
1435 AY810 ARN>HEL vintagepilot

1600 AY1337 HEL>LHR bisonrav, mtikky, Wozza2404, squawk
1635 AY814 ARN->HEL tsmnc, Selador
1700 AY1341 HEL>LHR awoxp, IFE Wizard, gosha
1930 AY1339 HEL>LHR tsmnc,vintagepilot, Selador


Aug 2nd
1240 BA1 LCY>JFK awoxp, bisonrav, IFE Wizard, vintagepilot, mtikky, Wozza2404, KARFA, tsmnc, gosha, squawk, Selador
1900 AA2246 JFK>CLT IFE Wizard
2040 AA2272 JFK>AUS awoxp, bisonrav, mtikky, gosha
2232 AA2092 CLT>MCO IFE Wizard

Aug 3rd
0630 BA4362 JFK>MIA tsmnc
0635 AA1479 MCO>MIA IFE Wizard
0842 AA1176 AUS>DFW bisonrav, awoxp, mtikky, gosha
1000 AA2136 LGA>BOS KARFA
1105 AA1571 JFK>MIA Wozza2404
1219 AA388 JFK>CLT vintagepilot
1253 AA2314 DFW>MCO awoxp, bisonrav, mtikky, gosha

1259 AA291 JFK>MIA Selador, squawk
1409 AA1609 CLT>MIA vintagepilot
1937 AA1194 MCO>MIA awoxp, bisonrav, mtikky, gosha

Aug 4th
0700 AA1571 MIA>JFK awoxp, gosha
0831 AA2199 MIA>CLT vintagepilot
0849 AA291 MIA>JFK bisonrav, mtikky
1224 AA1002 CLT>JFK vintagepilot
17:05 BA206 MIA>LHR Wozza2404

1830 BA112 JFK>LHR bisonrav, mtikky, vintagepilot
1900 BA174 JFK>LHR awoxp, gosha
1925 BA212 BOS>LHR KARFA

Aug 5th
06.50 AA1495 MIA>ORD IFE Wizard
0815 BA1340 LHR>LBA KARFA
0825 BA794 LHR>HEL bisonrav, mtikky, Wozza2404
1020 AY832 LHR>HEL awoxp, vintagepilot, gosha
1144 AA272 ORD>JFK IFE Wizard

1405 AY909 HEL>ARN bisonrav, mtikky, Wozza2404
1600 AY865 HEL>GOT awoxp, gosha
1600 AY813 HEL>ARN vintagepilot
1610 BA6080 LHR>HEL tsmnc
1805 BA781 ARN>LHR bisonrav
1830 AA6133 JFK>LHR
IFE Wizard
2345 AY825 HEL>ARN tsmnc

Aug 6th
0825 AA6538 LHR>HEL IFE Wizard
1515 BA779 ARN>LHR mtikky

1600 AY813 HEL>ARN IFE Wizard

Aug 8th
0849 AA291 MIA>JFK squawk
1830 BA112 JFK>LHR squawk

Aug 9th
1020 BA6032 LHR>HEL squawk
1600 BA6043 HEL>ARN squawk

Aug 10th
1215 AA145 MIA>ORD Selador
1735 AY10 ORD>HEL Selador

Aug 11th
1155 AY863 HEL>GOT Selador


Hotels

bisonrav:
July 31st: Cockpit Suite, Jumbo Hotel (in around midnight, so unfortunately no cocktails on the terrace or playing with my knobs)
August 2nd: Staybridge Suites, Austin Airport

Wozza2404

July 31st: Clarion Hotel - ARN
Aug 1st: Moxy - LCY
Aug 2nd: Undecided - Likely something around Penn Station
Aug 3rd: The Julia - South Beach
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The babybus (Sweden<> East Coast) Fare meetup thread

Old Nov 20, 2018, 1:26 pm
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Ok, I've made this work:



I'm getting the same problem, both AY and BA show the booking starting at HEL with ARN-HEL missing although it all shows up on AA. (sorted - see below) - and tweaked in an extra sector on the way back.

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Old Nov 20, 2018, 1:49 pm
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OK, so what you need to do is to go onto Finnair live chat, give them the AA record locator and explain you need to select seats on the Finnair flights. They'll give you another PNR you can use to select seats on Finnair, that will also allow you to see the whole itinerary on BA.COM if you want to. I had to reenter my personal details onto the Finnair PNR including BAEC number. Curiously it allowed me to select a seat on the BA HEL->LHR leg which I couldn't on the Qantas PNR (but I could select the babybus and 747 seats).
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Old Nov 20, 2018, 2:43 pm
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Some of these prices are crazy low! Wow!
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Old Nov 21, 2018, 2:29 am
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Originally Posted by bisonrav
OK, so what you need to do is to go onto Finnair live chat, give them the AA record locator......
Ok, I seem to have it sorted thanks to all the help. My Finnair live chat proved fruitless and the agent could only see what I could see, and seemed unable to do anything else. I called AA and got an alternative PNR straight away which works on AY, showed all the legs, and allowed me to book seats. My BA MMB will not accept that new PNR, so I am leaving it with the original one which at least has the BA operated flights and seats.
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Old Nov 21, 2018, 2:45 am
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Same situation with me. So, I now have an AA PNR, a BA PNR and an AY PNR.
@bisonrav have you been able to book a seat on AY808? I've got it to come up under the AY PNR but the page stalls when trying to bring up the seat map.
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Old Nov 21, 2018, 4:11 am
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Add your frequent flyer details to the AY PNR. Then you can select from the 4 available seats... for some reason the BAEC number isn't carried through
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Old Nov 21, 2018, 4:39 am
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It worked in the end.




Wiki updated

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Old Dec 5, 2018, 3:20 am
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Poop - BA176 on 4 Aug has just been switched to a 777 - presumably it could all change again.

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Old Dec 6, 2018, 9:42 am
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Was planning on doing this early August anyway so I've jumped on and booked myself on that same Babybus flight.
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Old Dec 6, 2018, 11:46 am
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Originally Posted by Wozza2404
Was planning on doing this early August anyway so I've jumped on and booked myself on that same Babybus flight.
For how much did you priced it out?
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Old Dec 6, 2018, 1:28 pm
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Originally Posted by tsmnc


For how much did you priced it out?
Around 1,080.
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Old Dec 9, 2018, 2:54 pm
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I shall be joining on the babybus (currently 8K) on the Friday and some of you at JFK on Sunday evening. Am on an INV-BOS booking.

2 August
0705 BA1467 INV-LHR
1240 BA1 LCY-JFK

3 August
1230 AA1289 JFK-BOS

4 August
1206 AA1140 BOS-JFK
1830 BA112 JFK-LHR

5 August
0815 BA1340 LHR-LBA
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Old Dec 11, 2018, 11:06 am
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Got it ticketed, but my inbound flight needed to be routed via Philadelphia.
Im looking forward to finally see some of you!

1 August
1635 AY 0814 ARN-HEL
1930 BA 6035 HEL-LHR

2 August
1240 BA LCY-JFK

3 August
0630 BA4362 JFK-MIA

5 August
1610 BA6080 LHR-HEL
2345 AY0825 HEL-ARN
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Old Dec 11, 2018, 1:07 pm
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Originally Posted by tsmnc
Got it ticketed, but my inbound flight needed to be routed via Philadelphia.
Im looking forward to finally see some of you!

1 August
1635 AY 0814 ARN-HEL
1930 BA 6035 HEL-LHR

2 August
1240 BA LCY-JFK

3 August
0630 BA4362 JFK-MIA

5 August
1610 BA6080 LHR-HEL
2345 AY0825 HEL-ARN
Updated the wiki, but you seem to be missing the MIA->LHR section. We're now a quarter of the babybus on declared runners.
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Old Dec 11, 2018, 4:47 pm
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[Sorry, cant put this into wiki myself.]

I have the same routing as awoxp:

Aug 1st
  • 1300 AY864 GOT>HEL
  • 1700 AY1341 HEL>LHR
Aug 2nd
  • 1240 BA1 LCY>JFK
  • 2053 AA1240 JFK>MCO
Aug 3rd
  • 0855 AA2657 MCO>MIA
Aug 4th
  • 0700 AA1571 MIA>JFK
  • 1900 BA174 JFK>LHR
Aug 5th
  • 1020 AY832 LHR>HEL
  • 1600 AY865 HEL>GOT
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