e-ticket process for itineraries involving other airlines

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1. Ticketing itineraries involving other airlines

Interline e-ticket partners (IET) with British Airways

British Airways has completed IET agreements with the following carriers. This means that providing British Airways flights are part of an interline journey with the following carriers, British Airways tickets may be issued in accordance with the BA Ticket Issue Policy.

• Issue e-tickets on BA (125) stock

To find out in your GDS if an IET agreement exists between BA and another airline please read following instructions

Or else have a look at this list

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2. Ticketing of Infants on interline itineraries

The following carriers have completed IET with British Airways but have limited functionality in their system to accept e-tickets for infants who are travelling as part of an interline journey involving British Airways.

Issue the tickets for the adults in the normal way.

• Request paper tickets from British Airways for infants – see below for instructions .

List of carriers which are not accepting infants e-tickets

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3. Instructions on how to request paper tickets from BA for non e-ticketable itineraries

Please request paper tickets by contacting your local BA office, allowing us to dispatch the ticket for at least 7 working days.

Reminder, for IET PNRs containing infants please issue e-tickets for adults and only request paper ticket for infant(s).

Follow the procedure to issue a paperless MCO/vMPD as follows:

Complete a paperless MCO/ vMPD for each passenger or infant to be ticketed:
Enter the following mandatory fields:

NAME OF PASSENGER
REASON FOR ISSUE: Select 50 -Specified MCO
REASON FOR ISSUANCE CODE: Select 1 - Prepaid Ticket Advice
AIRLINE CODE: enter 125
FARE – enter the fare
TAXES - insert all taxes applicable to a ticket issue
SERVICE CHARGE/TAX ON MPD: enter if applicable
PNR – enter PNR locator
FORM of PAYMENT: If form of payment is CREDIT, the credit card type, number, expiry date and amount fields have to be completed.
Only when requesting paper ticket for an Infant add:
ISSUED in CONNECTION WITH - Enter the associated ticket number for adult (3 digit airline code followed by the 10 digit ticket number e.g. 1251234567890)

REMARKS: enter any additional information

Then:
Enter the paperless MCO/vMPD number in the PNR (booking record).
Enter these details as an OSI item for transmittal to British Airways:
Amadeus : OS BA MPD 1252222333444
Galileo : SI.BA MPD 1252222333444
Worldspan: 3OSIBA MPD 1252222333444
Sabre: 3OSI BA MPD 1252222333444