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corporate-wage-slave
OPEY indeed includes a Y for EC261 eligible. OPE means operational, probably staff shortage. HAL have asked airlines to cut capacity, but they gave 3 weeks notice of this. If it was in this category it would show OPEN and there have been a few of those around (e.g. when flow rates were cut). You will probably get half payment for going early, particularly given that was the flight that the Disruption page showed for you. There is a debate upthread about this, but this is what would be paid by BA, rightly or wrongly. BA can pay in either GBP or EUR or quite a few other currencies via Swift, the detault in your case is GBP and that will typically be faster than alternative currencies.
Thanks fur the feedback. On the 50% point, BA are not correct are they? EU261 is very clear as to the permissible parameters for the offered alternatives. In my case up to 1 hr earlier.
As a quick PS, how does it work if there is a permitted alternative (a flight leaving 1hr later), but BA rebooks onto a non-permitted alternative (one leaving 3 hrs earlier)? Is one entitled to rely on the offered alternative as the basis for the claim, or would BA argue that the pax should pro-actively have manually selected the permitted alternative