Originally Posted by
KARFA
you do have to call to cancel if it is a voluntary cancellation.
a £35 per person cancellation fee will be deducted from the taxes/fees/charges you paid - if you paid less than £35 per person you are not asked to cure the difference.
you can get a FTV if you want and use that towards a new reward booking in the future, all the avios and cash will just be held on the FTV for use by april 2022.
Clear, thanks very much. So the only way to guarantee a complete no strings refund would be booking the 50p plus 17,000 avios option, with the downside of it being terrible value for the extra avios as against 8,000 plus £35. As you say, clearly the FTV would be better than a standard redemption cancellation if doing the 8,000/£35 option as you don't lose the £35, it just comes back as BA money rather than actual money as was previously the case.