IB award seats shown on AA but AA cannot be booked
Mar 19, 2022, 11:22 am
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Tried for a week to get from DFW or ORD to MAD using AA miles on IB. Great 57,000 saver awards thru DFW BUT any atempt to book any award in Sept or Oct says it will not go thru. AA rep checked with reservatiions and she said "yep- phantom flights" - big help. Any thoughtss to get to MAD without British flights in light of IB awards going dark? Gracias
Personally if BA shows the same as IB, I would book with BA at a heart beat. Dealing with BA while still a pain, is much less painful than dealing with IB. In the past BA charges a lot more YQ than IB but it is confirmed upthread by myself and another poster, at this moment it is identical. We of course do not know if this is a real change (for better), or just a system glitch!
Jul 5, 2022, 6:22 pm
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Bumping this thread.
Can someone confirm BA still charges the same $ as IB on IB flights booked with BA Avios? i.e. BA no longer charges a much higher surcharge when booking IB flights thru BA?
Can someone confirm BA still charges the same $ as IB on IB flights booked with BA Avios? i.e. BA no longer charges a much higher surcharge when booking IB flights thru BA?
Jul 5, 2022, 11:41 pm
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As of 3 weeks ago yes, surcharges more or less matched (slight discrepency prob due to exchange rates?)
Jul 6, 2022, 1:49 am
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Yes. BA makes you pay the taxes and surcharges in the currency of your account. IB+ lets you choose to pay in any major currency. (euros gets you the lowest cancellation fee)
Jul 6, 2022, 6:46 pm
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I got an update from Award Wallet today talking about the exact same subject.
https://awardwallet.com/blog/british...tyn=nszy92193k
Quietly and without any announcement, British Airways cut the high fuel surcharges it used to charge for awards on Iberia flights. The new charges align with the more modest fuel surcharges that Iberia levies on its own awards!
Hopefully eventually BA will do the same with QR flights.
https://awardwallet.com/blog/british...tyn=nszy92193k
Quietly and without any announcement, British Airways cut the high fuel surcharges it used to charge for awards on Iberia flights. The new charges align with the more modest fuel surcharges that Iberia levies on its own awards!
Hopefully eventually BA will do the same with QR flights.
Jul 7, 2022, 5:14 am
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I'm hoping we're going to me moving to a common back-end for all avios programs. I have to imagine it would be quite a cost saver to basically have a Flying Blue style multi-airline program. Even if they keep it separate nominally on the front end. (The free parking at MAD is an amazing benefit)