Originally Posted by
globalste
I wondered, if my parents reserve seats on a reward booking using avios and then need to cancel the trip, do they receive the avios back for the pre-paid seating or do they lose it like if they had paid cash?
Cheers
Good question, and I don't think I've seen a definitive answer on this one yet. Here are the full BA T&Cs on paid seating, which has a section on using Avios for payment:
https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb...sandconditions
The relevant item would seem to be:
- When Avios have been used as full or part payment, the Avios will be refundable only where the booking is refundable, please refer to the refund section of the Commercial seating policy for more information.
So, it seems that if the base ticket is refundable, you can get your seating Avios back as well. To my non-expert reading, since a reward ticket is refundable that would seem to meet this criteria and mean they would get the seat selection Avios back as well. But that is only my reading of their T&Cs, and would hope someone has actually done this to confirm it.
UPDATE: See
Anonba's comment below, and updated reading of T&Cs. I now think the answer is "No refund"