Originally Posted by
Prospero
Having spend much of the year bouncing between LON and GLA, where I have been able to put the ticket rules to good use, I was once thwarted when I tried to change from a GLA-LHR flight to an earlier GLA-LCY. If I recall correctly, my original flight was ticketed in R (Semi-flex domestic fare) and was told with this fare I was not permitted to switch from LHR to LCY. I have yet to find any documented guidance on this, so have remained slightly uncertain whether this is correct.
Originally Posted by
Anonba
Dont know where the info is from but im a call centre agent in the change booking department and i can tell you that ive definetly changed the route on standard european fares!!
Originally Posted by
Calchas
Looking at a typical O fare LBALIS (constructed by a £30 charge on top of an LHRLIS fare) there is nothing to suggest that changes to the route are not permitted.
Originally Posted by
orbitmic
I can however confirm that on the standard fares I have bought I have never had a problem changing the routing (including to completely different origin/destination) as long as the change fee was paid. However, also worth noting that the change had to be within a year of the ticket purchase and not of the travel dates.
I wonder whether there are two different things being discussed here?
As the fare rules posted by
Calchas illustrate, a standard short-haul fare should be re-routable as normal for change fee plus fare difference.
However, ISTR that there has been discussion about whether a fare marketed by BA as "semi-flex", allowing a free-of-charge change of flight on the day of travel, would allow a FOC re-route from a GLA-LHR flight to a GLA-LCY flight. I think that somewhere there has been mention of blurb which says that you can change to another flight between the same "airports", but it's unclear whether that is literally the case in the case of a destination like LON where there's more than one airport served by BA from the origin point. And I wonder whether this is the question that
Prospero is asking, which is different from the normal fare rules change rule.