Originally Posted by
srbrenna
But is is specifically against the Conditions of Carriage?
While I don't see a problem with it and in most cases it does not make a difference to either BA or the pax financially the specific wrong would be to use a nested ticket to avoid the Saturday night rule - ie buy ticket 1 LHR - JFK outbound 1st of the month, returning JFK - LHR 14th of the month and buying a second ticket JFK - LHR outbound, say 3rd of the month and returning LHR - JFK on say the 11th of the month. In this case you will have done two trips without a Saturday stay and saved quite a bit of dosh as the two tickets would both include a Saturday. But is this specifically implicit in the Ts and Cs?
This is timely, as I'm in this exact situation, and I can't understand why the situation you describe would be a "specific wrong". I'm going to be flying GLA-JFK monthly this year. I have a young family, so don't want to be away any longer than necessary. Why can I not do the following:
March: GLA-LHR-JFK (ticket A out), JFK-LHR-GLA (ticket B out)
April: GLA-LHR-JFK (ticket B return), JFK-LHR-GLA (ticket C out)
May: GLA-LHR-JFK (ticket C ret), ...
...
Dec: ..., JFK-LHR-GLA (ticket A ret)
Each booking meets its requirements of a "Saturday night stay" (which I interpret as there being a Saturday night between the outbound and return legs). I'm no legal expert, but I've looked at the T&Cs and Conditions of Carriage, and I can't see anything forbidding this series of bookings.
Nor can I see anything 'morally' or commercially questionable with this approach - I don't see why I should be under any obligation to maximise BA's revenue for any series of bookings.
However, I've asked my assistant to look into booking this, and have been told that the corporate TA won't do this as BA "forbid it". Can anyone show me where exactly this is forbidden?
Right now it's looking like I'd save about £500-£1000 per trip using this approach, which fairly mounts up over a year...
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