MMB - Online check-in doesn't work - date of birth error!
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: UK
Programs: BA Exec Club, Flying Blue
Posts: 649
MMB - Online check-in doesn't work - date of birth error!
I'm so fed up with BA IT now, in particular the new MMB. Being forced to use it for the past couple of weeks,
I find on my return trip that I can't check in online because there is a date of birth check which fails.
Please confirm your date of birth to proceed. This is an extra security measure to protect your personal information.
Please enter the correct date of birth
I've redacted my personal information - I do actually know my own DoB. BA IT has failed again and I can't check in online.
This is just ridiculous
I find on my return trip that I can't check in online because there is a date of birth check which fails.
Please confirm your date of birth to proceed. This is an extra security measure to protect your personal information.
Please enter the correct date of birth
I've redacted my personal information - I do actually know my own DoB. BA IT has failed again and I can't check in online.
This is just ridiculous
#2
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: UK
Programs: Mucci. And BA Gold previous awards - Gold 11, Silver 7, Bronze 4.
Posts: 4,247
I'm so fed up with BA IT now, in particular the new MMB. Being forced to use it for the past couple of weeks,
I find on my return trip that I can't check in online because there is a date of birth check which fails.
Please confirm your date of birth to proceed. This is an extra security measure to protect your personal information.
Please enter the correct date of birth
I've redacted my personal information - I do actually know my own DoB. BA IT has failed again and I can't check in online.
This is just ridiculous
I find on my return trip that I can't check in online because there is a date of birth check which fails.
Please confirm your date of birth to proceed. This is an extra security measure to protect your personal information.
Please enter the correct date of birth
I've redacted my personal information - I do actually know my own DoB. BA IT has failed again and I can't check in online.
This is just ridiculous
Unbelievably after going on the phone to BAEC, they only way they would fix THEIR PROBLEM was for me to email ina scan of my passport.
So camdentown yes it is ridiculous but don't take it personally it is just the normal love you get from BAs fantastic IT systems!
#3
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 3,002
I found this a few weeks ago. After over twenty years of using a shortened version of my name on BAEC, suddenly computer says no and I could not complete a booking.Though my details were correct on the bit of my BAEC account where your passport details are held (which flows through to API etc.) there were other parts of my account where my shortened name were held (think Jon and Jonathan or Rob and Robert).
Unbelievably after going on the phone to BAEC, they only way they would fix THEIR PROBLEM was for me to email ina scan of my passport.
So camdentown yes it is ridiculous but don't take it personally it is just the normal love you get from BAs fantastic IT systems!
Unbelievably after going on the phone to BAEC, they only way they would fix THEIR PROBLEM was for me to email ina scan of my passport.
So camdentown yes it is ridiculous but don't take it personally it is just the normal love you get from BAs fantastic IT systems!
#4
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: UK
Programs: Mucci. And BA Gold previous awards - Gold 11, Silver 7, Bronze 4.
Posts: 4,247
I can think of at least four financial services companies I have accounts with who are happy with me to have a full official name recorded but address me as my shortened name (and I can see both on my account).
BUT the bigger issue AFAIWK is that the agent on the phone would not book a flight for me (one not possible online) despite the ability for her to see elsewhere in my BAEC my full name and passport details. So I had to scan and send in a passport that they already had on their system and I had used many times over the past few years. That was poor IMHO. Rant over.
#5
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Ealing
Programs: Usual Amex Cent. GGL.
Posts: 1,502
I had similar a few months back. GGL explained that the DOB on the booking was a month earlier than my DOB and changed it back for me. I really struggle to think that I entered my DOB incorrectly, but who knows?
#6
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: AMS
Programs: BAEC Silver, Flying Blue Gold, TK M&S Nobody
Posts: 2,518
I had this on another thread somewhere - in that case I was checking my wife in and the DOB was rejected on one flight but not the preceding connecting flight. Come to think of its the rejected one might have been AA operated and I dont recall trying the Imperial date format.
#7
Original Poster
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: UK
Programs: BA Exec Club, Flying Blue
Posts: 649
I found this a few weeks ago. After over twenty years of using a shortened version of my name on BAEC, suddenly computer says no and I could not complete a booking.Though my details were correct on the bit of my BAEC account where your passport details are held (which flows through to API etc.) there were other parts of my account where my shortened name were held (think Jon and Jonathan or Rob and Robert).
Unbelievably after going on the phone to BAEC, they only way they would fix THEIR PROBLEM was for me to email ina scan of my passport.
So camdentown yes it is ridiculous but don't take it personally it is just the normal love you get from BAs fantastic IT systems!
Unbelievably after going on the phone to BAEC, they only way they would fix THEIR PROBLEM was for me to email ina scan of my passport.
So camdentown yes it is ridiculous but don't take it personally it is just the normal love you get from BAs fantastic IT systems!
in my case my name doesn't have a short version, so its probably something else ...
the sympathy is welcome though
#8
Original Poster
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: UK
Programs: BA Exec Club, Flying Blue
Posts: 649
I had this on another thread somewhere - in that case I was checking my wife in and the DOB was rejected on one flight but not the preceding connecting flight. Come to think of its the rejected one might have been AA operated and I dont recall trying the Imperial date format.
It was a journey with a connection on AA.
#9
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Naples, FL
Posts: 166
It's not just BA. I had a similar experience with Singapore Airlines when I set up my wife's FF account - I hadn't realized that there was a discrepancy between the booking and the FF account - I had left out her middle name on the FF acount. Had to scan and send passport page to them to get it corrected.