Originally Posted by
rob_88
Update... so, I finally just gave up. I'm going to just travel as originally booked.
I'm curious if there's a path here for compensation from BA, as they've basically forced a fully flex ticket to be completely inflexible - in effect removing a key feature of the ticket I purchased. Especially given it was BA's fault (cancelling the outbound) which led to this. I might mull this over.
Because you are going to travel as booked, that side of the travel arrangements doesn't seem to me to be in scope for compensation. There is perhaps an argument for AMEX to do a customer relations gesture, but doubtless they will blame BA for this, but BA are their supplier here. I can't see any basis for you to seek anything from BA, other than the impacts of the first set of cancellations.
Had you decided to go ahead with the changed arrangements, and AMEX/BA hadn't reticketed, then you would have a case for booking alternative travel, then launching a cost recovery claim to both BA and Amex for the cost of the replacement ticket. MCOL can be used to pursue two companies if it's not clear who is at fault. However this being German AMEX rather than UK Amexi would complicate this, other than to use the fairly similar version of MCOL in Germany.