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Just had one (after a canx flight) where the cash element was almost immediate, avios took 6 weeks and a lot of chasing both from myself and between baec cs team and avios team. During these exchanges, I did get the impression that the process was not always smooth and to a large extent was based on manual processes, hence wildly varying possibilities re timing