Originally Posted by
silonic
Should W outbound become available at a later stage, am I able to call BA and use extra Avios to upgrade to W - it therefore staying as a 100% avios booking.
If yes, will they just charge me the equivalent avios for 1 ticket as the whole ticket is a 2-4-1.
Originally Posted by
SteveF
I suspect that the answer is yes, but it may be effectively classed as a cancel and rebook ...
Originally Posted by
GavT_london
usually a cancel and rebook with no guarantee that the seats will drop back into the redemption bucket.
Why should this involve a cancel and rebook? You're entitled to
change an award booking. So if WT+ award seats become available later, you would just change the current WT award booking to a WT+ award booking. The cost is the additional Avios, the additional TFC plus the change fee. I'm pretty confident that is the answer every time someone comes up with a question about changing to a different cabin on the same flight on an award booking.
The only thing I am not so confident about is whether the 2-4-1 makes a difference. But I can't immediately see any reason why it should. You can change a 2-4-1 award booking just like any other award booking, as far as I know.
Cancel and rebook comes into play if you're trying to change an award booking to a different route in a different zone. Such a change is not allowed on an award booking, so the only way of securing that is to cancel the entire booking and start again. But that's not what's happening here.