Originally Posted by
Brianek
Thanks Pandaperth. Actually, I was trying to upgrade using Avios not money. I wouldn't spend my hard earned cash on upgrades. That's what Air Miles are for
. So, on that point BA are incorrect then ? If so, I suspect the real problem is the 'lock' they have put on making further changes to the ticket (as opposed to what the agent told me).
Probably the BA agent was incorrect. I do not know enough about the BAEC programme to be certain. I expect to upgrade it would have to be a BA-issued ticket, and the segment has to have a BA flight number and be operated by a BA aircraft.
Thanks also for the clarification on the stopover rule. Just one point on this. In relation to that rule, I assume that Europe/Middle East is a regarded as single continent (i.e. not Europe and Middle East separately). On that assumption, I think the following should be valid as long as DOH is used as a transit point for SGN-DOH-WAW and LHR is used as a transit point for WAW-LHR-MCT (i.e. no stopovers in DOH and LHR, which I believe means less than 24 hours)
CAI-LHR-IAD-DFW-SYD-WLG-AKL-KUL-CMB-MLE-HKG-SGN-DOH-WAW-LHR-MCT-DOH
Would you agree ?
Yes - Europe/Middle East is one continent (this is defined in the fare rules)
Re-writing your itinerary slightly - CAI-LHR-IAD-DFW-SYD-WLG-AKL-KUL-CMB-MLE-HKG-SGN-xDOH-oWAW-xLHR-oMCT-DOH
(x = transit, meaning no longer than 24hrs; o=stopover, meaning longer than 24hrs)
So you are correct, you will have just the two stopovers on your return.
BUT what about the start of your journey - was it CAI-xLHR-IAD or CAI-oLHR-IAD? If the latter, then you can have only one stopover on your return
Actually Brianek is my dog's name. Well Brian actually, but we sometimes call him Brianek. My real name is Evan
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You can masquerade as your dog if you want to. We are non-judgmental here on flyertalk
