Originally Posted by
lcylocal
Have not tried this in practice, however it sounds potentially risky as BA don’t guarantee making cancelled Avios seats available to be re-booked.
Correct - that is certainly not the consensus advice on how to do this.
But as we have a long thread on the subject, with an immensely detailed wikipost put together using many hours of many FTers time willingly given, together with repeated updates of experiences and additional information from BA insiders, it hardly seems worth thrashing it all out again in this thread.