No eligable to book AA online! Please help
Oct 29, 2009 | 9:39 am
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No eligable to book AA online! Please help
Some advice needed if possible. I'm trying to book BA & AA for the following return route:
FAO - LGW
LHR - MIA
MIA - NAS
I will be doing buiness in each of these places so all require at least one night layover, but I am not able to book the through oneworld. I can book the first 2 parts though BA online but because I have an address in Portugal I am unable to book with AA online. Neither BA or AA are able to help me out!!
Any advise would be appreciated
Thanks
Alex
FAO - LGW
LHR - MIA
MIA - NAS
I will be doing buiness in each of these places so all require at least one night layover, but I am not able to book the through oneworld. I can book the first 2 parts though BA online but because I have an address in Portugal I am unable to book with AA online. Neither BA or AA are able to help me out!!
Any advise would be appreciated
Thanks
Alex
Oct 29, 2009 | 3:58 pm
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Oct 30, 2009 | 12:48 pm
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Thanks for the welcome
Yes I have but because I am a resident in Portugal they don't accept my credit card. I have even tried holding the reservation and calling them with my payment information but again my credit card billing address is not accepted as it is in Portugal - Other than move country I'm not too sure how to get this flight.
Thanks
Yes I have but because I am a resident in Portugal they don't accept my credit card. I have even tried holding the reservation and calling them with my payment information but again my credit card billing address is not accepted as it is in Portugal - Other than move country I'm not too sure how to get this flight.
Thanks
Oct 30, 2009 | 4:07 pm
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It may be worth your while to "move" to the USA for the purposes of making this purchase. You would not have been the first to have done so. (Of course it is essential that you correctly specify your email address and carefully note the PNR upon confirmation).
Nov 1, 2009 | 12:55 pm
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How on earth do you move the billing address of your credit card to the US? And, is it worth it for a MIA - NAS ticket to go to all the trouble of contacting your credit card company, getting your billing address moved to the USA (if that is even possible), buying a ticket and then getting everything moved back to Portugal?
Nov 1, 2009 | 1:06 pm
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How on earth do you move the billing address of your credit card to the US? And, is it worth it for a MIA - NAS ticket to go to all the trouble of contacting your credit card company, getting your billing address moved to the USA (if that is even possible), buying a ticket and then getting everything moved back to Portugal?
Dave
Nov 1, 2009 | 2:25 pm
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How on earth do you move the billing address of your credit card to the US? And, is it worth it for a MIA - NAS ticket to go to all the trouble of contacting your credit card company, getting your billing address moved to the USA (if that is even possible), buying a ticket and then getting everything moved back to Portugal?
I routinely use AA (UK) using my aunts address in Liverpool, the billing address is here in Australia, no issues so far.
Dave
Nov 1, 2009 | 4:06 pm
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In this day and age of e-ticketing, very little gets actually sent to a "billing" address.
It may be worth your while to "move" to the USA for the purposes of making this purchase. You would not have been the first to have done so. (Of course it is essential that you correctly specify your email address and carefully note the PNR upon confirmation).
It may be worth your while to "move" to the USA for the purposes of making this purchase. You would not have been the first to have done so. (Of course it is essential that you correctly specify your email address and carefully note the PNR upon confirmation).
Nov 1, 2009 | 8:10 pm
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I third what they say - it is a little known feature of "billing addresses" that they aren't validated outside the USA. This can be handy to know when, for example, accessing things like iTunes which try to impose geographic restrictions.
Nov 1, 2009 | 10:49 pm
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In my experience of setting up online credit card payment systems (dealing only in sums up to about US$1000 I admit) this isn't so. We were told by multiple card processing agencies (including some of the biggest in the world) that they have no way of validating addresses on cards unless they are in the US (perhaps it also included Canada - not sure on that). This is one of the reaons why there is so much online credit card fraud, but when addresses have so many possible formats and even scripts (Chinese or Japanese address validation anyone?) it is hard to see how it could ever be done for the whole world.