The Americans are coming! The Americans are coming! We’ve infiltrated British Airways Executive Club!

Well, it seems we’ve let British Airways know how we feel about award availability on their partner Aer Lingus. I called British Airways Executive Club on two separate occasions today to ask about Aer Lingus award space. After all, their agents are pretty awful, and they start huffing and puffing as soon as you ask them to check on award availability for more than a few dates. Their call center is actually up in Jacksonville, Florida, so I’ve been tempted to drive up there and share my, erm, “thoughts” with them on more than one occasion.

Unfortunately award availability is not as good as it was a couple of days ago, though it’s still decent enough.

On the first call as soon as I said the words “Aer Lingus” the agent responded with “we’ve been booking Aer Lingus reservations nonstop the past two days and I have no clue why.” On the second call later this afternoon, the agent immediately said “oh no, not another one of these.”

Keep up the good work, guys! 😀

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Aurora Guest

Everyone here is complaining about the US call center. I can imagine what type of people these agents have to deal with.. You all will be wishing you could talk to Americans when they move the call center to India.

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Coutureguy Guest

Exactly! I thought it took the cake when she asked me if I could tell her what the airline code was. Then she said she had a list of airline codes she could check, but it would be faster if I knew it so she wouldn't have to search. I feel bad for people who aren't that familiar with booking awards and are just at the mercy of whatever the agent tells them. That said, there are some really good agents out there, but then there are some that don't deserve to be on the phones!

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Stephan Guest

You really have to spoon feed some agents,no?

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Coutureguy Guest

LOL. While not on the same topic of BA, last night I was trying to use Delta Skymiles to book a trip to the Seychelles, which seems nearly impossible, btw. Anyway, the agent had never heard of the Seychelles, asked me where it was and how to spell it, had never heard of Air Seychelles and didn't know if it was a partner or not, then asked me what the airline code was for Air Seychelles so she could check and see if she could book it. Well, because she was so clueless and I really wanted to explore all options, I actually went online and found the airline code, which is HM, and told her, and then she said "no that's Hawaiian Air." I assured her that it was HM, and then she looked and found it, (unfortunately it wasn't a booking partner.) By that point I just decided to end the call because the agent clearly wouldn't be able to help me, especially considering how difficult it is to book Seychelles within SkyTeam. To top it off, as we're saying our goodbyes to end the call, she thanked me for teaching her a couple of things. LOL! Just unbelievable.

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Stephan Guest

It's pretty clear from Frank's comments that he is an effeminate teenager who is having troubles with his own sexuality, who has a crush on Lucky. No confident adult man - regardless of orientation - would post comments and reactions like we've seen from Frank. There are many counselling agencies that can help you, bro!

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