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Old Mar 23, 2019, 12:50 pm
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craigthemif
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A 10-minute schedule change doesn't give you carte blanche to do what you want. IAG is especially conscious of not letting people book LGW flights and then switch to LHR. But even if you got really lucky, your current fare is what would apply to the new flight.

A 10-minute change also doesn't justify a full refund.

Besides that, I'm not at all sure that IB Optima fares automatically book into a fare bucket that earns 10 TPs.

And, for what it's worth, special price upgrades (POUGs in the BA vernacular) don't get you any extra TPs on Iberia.
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