A weekend of BA Booking Jenga, with cancellations to a few flights I'd set up early in the TP year, and needing to be moved around. The fares were way too good to cancel for FTV, and it's been like three dimensional chess finding places to slot them.

The problem is not so much finding free weekends, as in making sure big trips aren't clobbered by returning from somewhere dodgy within two weeks of the off. I missed this point entirely yesterday, Friday, fatigued at the end of the week, and shifted them via the inestimable GGL line to just before US trips. Then I remembered that most declarations have a "have you been to x,y or z in the last 14 days" and figured that was probably quite likely to be propagated into next year. I was a bit panicked when I figured this out, having already shifted the dates via the cancellation rules, but it turned out to be OK, though one of the trips, to Budapest, booked in September, didn't seem to have the validity date of a very similar booking made at the same time. It turned out this was because of an embedded FTV from last June which limited the end date.

Anyway, so far I seem to have a Sofia B2B that's somehow managed to stick in January, and a reasonable slot in February to have a shot at getting an additional GUF now the OTP flights have shifted out into the year. And I don't know how others feel, but the optimism there might be Easter travel to Singapore and Malaysia is wearing rather thin now.

It's funny looking back to the 2018 GGL qualification year now. A year when things like non-refundable hotel bookings seemed a perfectly reasonable idea. Everything has to be carefully weighed up and contingency planned, plans become very fluid indeed. But there is just the hint things may improve, let's hope so.