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Pointsmeister Aug 2, 2016 11:03 am
Award ticket on BA
 
I have the opportunity to book a BA award ticket to London this fall. My question is after I book the ticket can I use my AA status ( Platinum) to get a better seat selection? If so how would I go about doing this?

Thanks for any help

christep Aug 2, 2016 11:05 am
Best asked in the BA forum, but as I understand it, OWS (incl AA Plat) and OWE have access to seat selection immediately on booking, free of charge, through the BA website.

nux Aug 2, 2016 11:07 am
Yes. After booking call BA and request to have the frequent flyer number attached to the booking changed to your AA number. This will allow you to select seats for free online.

JAXBA Aug 2, 2016 3:49 pm
If the booking is being made from your PLT AAdvantage account, your AA number should be transmitted to BA automatically. Then simply access your booking on AA.com, which should link you to BA.com - or go to BA.com/mmb and retrieve your booking there to choose your seats.

Shouldn't even need talk to anyone or update any frequent flyer numbers or anything more taxing than looking at the seat map and making a decision. :)

guv1976 Aug 2, 2016 4:16 pm
Originally Posted by JAXBA (Post 27005519)
If the booking is being made from your PLT AAdvantage account, your AA number should be transmitted to BA automatically. Then simply access your booking on AA.com, which should link you to BA.com - or go to BA.com/mmb and retrieve your booking there to choose your seats.

Shouldn't even need talk to anyone or update any frequent flyer numbers or anything more taxing than looking at the seat map and making a decision. :)
Yes, but if the award booking is made with Avios, then the FFP number will have to be changed -- either by calling BA, or by using the manage-my-booking function at finnair.com. ;)

JAXBA Aug 3, 2016 7:28 am
Originally Posted by guv1976 (Post 27005640)
Yes, but if the award booking is made with Avios, then the FFP number will have to be changed...
True. I read it as being booked by AAdvantage. If booked by BA then, yeah, what you said.

Gardyloo Aug 3, 2016 8:00 am
Questions regarding the use of specific mileage programs should be directed to the relevant airline thread, i.e. the FFP being used.

Closing this thread.

Gardyloo
Oneworld moderator


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