How to find a British Airways office open at any time (eg midnight for 241 bookings)

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• Peter says:

  4 Jan4 January 06:41

  I will shortly have two 241 vouchers and whilst I know it will be tough am looking to use them for 4 business class seats for the family. Possibly on the London to Singapore route.

  One voucher is in my BAEC account and the other in my wife’s. Is there any way to simplify the booking procedure so that I don’t have to make 2 separate bookings? In particular if I need to do the outbound by phone rather than online as they come up more quickly, this would then presumably involve my wife also staying up to 1am which is going to be a trickier prospect.

  Any advice appreciated.

  Thank you

  • Anon says:

    4 Jan4 January 06:57

    If you hoping to use for 4x CW you may find yourself out of luck, IIRC only 2x CW are released each day and on the route booking at this time of year they are usually gone in 60 secs..

    If you ate Gold, you could call BAEC and ask them to see if you could force availability but that’d negate the advantage of 241.?

    PS just to clarify its 12 midnight GMT/UTC/Zulu when they are released so 1am BST

  • Anon says:

    4 Jan4 January 07:02

    That said if its a quieter time of year, more availability my get added later, just had a look for 7th Dec next year, 8x CW seats showing, that’s incredible!

    • Katy storie says:

      4 Jan4 January 22:19

      OT: I am due to fly back into Dublin at the end of a trip to the US (I booked from Ireland as was much much cheaper for Business Class flights) but the connections on the return back to Newcastle are dire. If I do not catch the final connecting flight from Heathrow to Dublin what is the likelihood I will face a penalty and what might thy realistically be?! Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

      • Alan says:

        4 Jan4 January 23:37

        Realistically if you don’t do it repeatedly you should be fine.

      • Yan says:

        4 Jan4 January 23:43

        You are most likely to have difficulties short-checking your luggage to LHR, especially with US agents who are generally tough on this matter, without a lengthy layover or overnight connection.

        You would most likely to be fine if doing hand baggage only.

        • Alan says:

          4 Jan4 January 23:49

          Ah yes, good point!

        • Katy storie says:

          5 Jan5 January 11:56

          Thank you for your replies. I’ll give it a go and worse case will have to go via Dublin spending a day at the airport.

• Chris says:

  5 Jan5 January 23:04

  As a beginner at this, can I just check I understand. Do I need to phone say Canada from the UK, just after midnight our time, to be sure of grabbing the redemption seats I want?

  • John says:

    9 Jan9 January 23:27

    For your return journey, yes. Outward is booked online as normal, then phone an open call centre as soon as the return seats become available. This is an amendment to the original booking. The call centre staff are usually very familiar with what you are doing! Good luck!

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