Originally Posted by
makin'miles
Wrote in requesting refund of overnight hotel expenses (paid) and downgrade compensation (refused, as my original flight was cancelled for “operational reasons”).
This seems off to me: they sold me an F ticket and I flew in J.
You are entitled to downgrade reimbursement (but not compensation) but it certainly helps if you had a telephone call with BA to see what other First options were open to you. If you accepted the downgrade without comment then they may assume you were OK with the new arrangements. However if the flight number stayed the same and you were placed in Club World then you should be OK for the Mennens formula (see wiki). In other words, it depends on the details.