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Old Nov 2, 2019, 3:33 pm
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Does BA Think I'm Incompetent or Just Plain Stupid?
I'm heading to the UK to attend my convocation this coming January and needed to find an award flight for my parents to get back to Canada. Whilst searching the Avios website for the date they need to travel I came across this doozy:


I'm new to booking Avios rewards but have never seen fees this high! What am I missing here?

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Old Nov 2, 2019, 3:36 pm
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Click through to the next step, what happens?
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Old Nov 2, 2019, 3:40 pm
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Originally Posted by BA6501
Click through to the next step, what happens?
I now see this:


Bizarre! Is BA's IT usually this glitchy? When will I know for certain what the price is? Now? When I hit the buy button? When I receive my credit card statement?

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Old Nov 2, 2019, 3:44 pm
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Yes, and now (normally), or on the final confirmation screen but I've never seen it differ at that stage.
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Old Nov 2, 2019, 4:09 pm
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The £41,330 fee seems perfectly sensible to me.

Alex will have warned his promotions team that those loss leader LGW flash sale fares must be paid for somehow ..........
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Old Nov 2, 2019, 4:13 pm
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Just book first class cash tickets and pocket the difference
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Old Nov 2, 2019, 4:34 pm
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The answer to your headline question is no.
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Old Nov 2, 2019, 7:28 pm
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As a result of you bothering to post this, I'm going for b) Just Plain Stupid.
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Old Nov 2, 2019, 7:36 pm
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As a result of you bothering to post this, I'm going for b) Just Plain Stupid.
Well played

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Old Nov 2, 2019, 7:55 pm
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Originally Posted by fruitcage
The answer to your headline question is no.
I thought that the headline question was multiple choice.
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Old Nov 2, 2019, 8:15 pm
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I thought that the headline question was multiple choice.
This is not Brexit there are no multiple choice answers

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Old Nov 2, 2019, 9:06 pm
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Originally Posted by j2simpso
This is not Brexit there are no multiple choice answers

ORDA!

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He's retired now.
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Old Nov 3, 2019, 6:53 am
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Only off by a couple orders of magnitude, no big deal. In the grand scheme of the universe 400 and 40000 are probably pretty close
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Old Nov 3, 2019, 11:06 am
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Originally Posted by j2simpso
Bizarre! Is BA's IT usually this glitchy?
This is less glitch than usual if it actually allows you to book at any cost.
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Old Nov 3, 2019, 1:01 pm
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Originally Posted by jerseytom
Only off by a couple orders of magnitude, no big deal. In the grand scheme of the universe 400 and 40000 are probably pretty close
Try telling that to Captain Robert Pearson
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