Originally Posted by
johnny5a
I'm afraid this is not the case, last week I had changed my outbound date, the corporate travel did it without saying there was a charge etc....
Obviously there are thousands of fares on the BA system and the details will vary which is why it's always a good idea to read the fine print. In general though R fare tickets in CE normally sold to the general public (as opposed to special corporate deals) are non refundable and non changeable. See below example (my bold and edited out lots of stuff):
[KVS Availability Tool 3.3.4/Platinum - TVN: LHR-CDG/BA/REUNBA/163 GBP]
Code:
BUSINESS CLASS NON-DISCOUNTABLE
[PENALTIES]
CANCELLATIONS ANY TIME TICKET IS NON-REFUNDABLE. NOTE - TEXT BELOW NOT
VALIDATED FOR AUTOPRICING. CANCELLATIONS- BEFORE DEPARTURE FARE IS
NON-REFUNDABLE.IF COMBINING A NON- REFUNDABLE FARE WITH A REFUNDABLE
FARE ONLY THE Y/J-CLASS HALF RETURN AMOUNT CAN BE REFUNDED. AFTER DEPARTURE
AT ANYTIME FARE IS NON-REFUNDABLE. IF COMBINING A NON-REFUNDABLE
FARE WITH A REFUNDABLE FARE REFUND THE DIFFERENCE/IF ANY/BETWEEN THE
FARE PAID AND THE APPLICABLE BA ONEWAY FARE. CHANGES ANY TIME CHANGES
NOT PERMITTED. NOTE - TEXT BELOW NOT VALIDATED FOR AUTOPRICING.
UPGRADES - NOT PERMITTED AT ANY TIME
One exception to this is that (I believe) BA have recently changed the fare bucket that IATA fares book into. They used to book into J but those I've seen in the past few weeks book into R. Obviously those fares are fully flexible but by booking into R now, their availability especially at the last minute is now seriously limited.