Originally Posted by
father_ted
It's not so great a problem with BA only bookings, because they won't auto-cancel the reservation. Other airlines quite rightly will, and apparently there's a priority queue for ticketing for this reason. I'm not confident that it will be fast enough.
What I can't understand is that the hard work of manual tax recalculation has been done - all that remains is to take payment, which surely should be a very simple process.
On this evidence, when the shoe is on the other foot BA seem a little better than these other OW carriers in that a friends recently did BA sectors on AA tickets and the BA sectors had not been ticketed upon his arrival at DUB outbound and then at PHL on his return.
BA hadnt cancelled the reservations but he had some stressful waiting about while things were sorted.
Its probably more BA's IT not being in a position to cancel the reservations as opposed to anything else though!