EMD Fact Sheet

Airline Name

British Airways (BA)

Implementation Date

Feb 2012

Description of fee

RFIC

RFISC

Method

Group

EMD type

ICW

Refund

Void

Exchange

Change Fees

D

992

Manual SVC

N/A

EMD-S

Y

N

Y

N

Deposits Down Payments

D

997

Manual SVC

N/A

EMD-S

N

Y/N

Y

N

Italian Airport Fee

A

BAE

Manual SVC

N/A

EMD-S

Y

N

Y

N

Refundable Balance - REFUNDABLE BALANCES

D

996

Auto-generated

N/A

EMD-S

Y

Y

N

N

Notes:

Effective 14 February, 2014  BA supports Refundable Balance on Galileo.

Refundable Balance becomes an option during the ET Exchange process which results in a refundable amount.

The date in the manual SVC segment should be the last AIR segment travel date +1 day

EMDs for Group Deposit must be 'Refundable' but it is up to an individual BA station how they want the refund process to work i.e. some countries will give travel agents permission to refund EMD themselves in the GDS system, other countries will ask agents to apply for a refund through the BSP Link (and BA staff will close EMD cpn to R)

For Group Deposit, until it is automated, agents will need to update OSI manually with the EMD number, RFIC, RFISC, description ('Group Deposit') and any other information that is required by BA, but this will differ locally. BA will tell agents to follow the same process as they do now for VMCO issued for group deposits.

Examples:

1G entry: SI.AY*EMD PAID 25NOV 10 PAX

1P entry: 3OSI AY EMD PAID 25NOV 10 PAX

1V entry:  @:3OSI AY EMD PAID 25NOV 10 PAX

SVC segment example (Auto-generated at time of RB EMD issuance - may not be manually entered):

SVCBAHI1LHR31JAN-D/996/REFUNDABLE BALANCES/NM-1SMITH/JOHN/1259999903766C1/245.00/EUR