Agent tickets (AD75/50)

ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES
As per IATA resolution 880, AD tickets are for the use of staff of accredited IATA travel agencies

- who have either been working for the current employer for at least 12 months
- or who have been employed by the current agency for at least 3 months but prior to that used to work at another travel agency for 12 months
- passenger must be able to prove his employment by means of company ID card
- Non IATA travel agents must request AD tickets through an IATA travel agency

ALLOTMENT
British Airways authorizes 2 AD75 tickets per IATA number per calendar year (subject to availability). In addition once a year the employee who is granted an AD75 ticket will receive an AD50 ticket to be used by his/her spouse. The staff member and his/her spouse have to travel together in at least one direction of the journey. No reduced fare tickets will be granted to common law spouse or travel partners/companions.

FARES
To know if an agent discount applies to a fare, please check the fare notes of the relevant fare in your GDS, chapter “Agent Discounts”. The official fare rules of the fare chosen apply with the exception of the following

- Rebooking fee: waived
- Cancellation fee: 50 % of the regular fee
- Advanced booking limit: waived

 - earliest booking 3 months before departure

RESERVATION
Please create the booking yourself in your GDS using the following booking classes:

* World Traveller Plus : feeder booking class Y for AD75 and AD50 

* Club Europe/World or First Class : feeder booking class J for AD75 and AD50

* World Traveller : feeder booking S for AD75 and M for AD50

- Amadeus: OS BA ADID
- Galileo: SI.BA*ADID
- Sabre: 3OSI BA ADID
- Worldspan: 3OSI BA ADID

Important : please insert the secured flight data before sending their request (SFPD).

Please note that advanced seat reservations on agent discounted tickets are not permitted. AD tickets are not eligible for accrual of BA Miles or tier points so please do not add any frequent flyer numbers to your booking.

TICKET APPROVAL REQUEST
Please request approval for ticket issuance not later than 3 days before departure by filling in this form and submitting it. 

We will then enter an approval code into your booking and send the booking to your queue. Please note that we will authorize discounted tickets on BA operated flights only, approval for tickets on code share flights has to be requested from the operating carrier.

For COMAIR, BA Franchise flights in Southern Africa, please fax your application to :

COMAIR Limited, Rebate Department, PO Box 7015, BONAERO PARK 1622, GAUTENG - Fax 0027 11 281 57 33 

TICKET ISSUANCE
The tickets will be issued by yourself in your own GDS. The pricing needs to be done manually using the applicable fare, the fare rules of the relevant fare (ticketing time limit etc.) must be applied. Please enter the fare basis in the following format:

CFFEUR/AD75N1 (where CFFEUR is the published fare basis and AD75N1 indicates the percentage of discount).
The approval code provided by BA must be entered in the endorsement box of your ticket. 

The ticket has to be issued in the same calendar year as the approval has been requested in. In any case the maximum ticket validity is 3 months from date of issuance. All tickets must be issued electronically (where possible).

Please note that for any incorrectly issued ticket we will recharge the fare difference to the applicable published fare.

DENIED BOARDING OR DOWNGRADE
AD tickets are rebated travel documents. As such, your flight confirmation and cabin allocation are subject to availability on the services on which you are booked. Should these flights have an unexpected high demand from our commercial customers, you may be asked to downgrade to another cabin or be offloaded. 

Whilst this is rare occurrence, it does happen occasionally. In that case you would be accommodated on the next available BA service or, if necessary, overnight accommodation and meal expenses would be provided. If travel is in a cabin lower than originally booked we will refund the fare difference. However, the passenger will not be entitled to receive any sort of compensation (DBC).

CONTACT
In case of any questions, please call us on 0848 847 847.