Originally Posted by
flarmip
If the best offer was next-day rebooking then yes, you would be entitled to cancellation compensation.
Similarly you are also entitled to downgrade reimbursement. However it may be a little trickier to get 75% for the CDG-EDI portion, since you would presumably also have been booked in J for LHR-EDI, which is only a slightly longer distance. If you got 75% based on MIA-CDG then I would probably call it quits, unless your fare was particularly expensive.
Thanks for your response. I probably wasn’t clear - original flights for me were first outbound, club world return. So the return with AF in business for me wasn’t a downgrade. The initial email did say they had unfortunately changed my cabin class, but when I went to MMB it was for F with AF. Excited to be upgraded I took the rebooking offer straight away, but was ticketed into business. So I was downgraded in terms of my expectations, but not from the original ticket class. Hey ho I guess unless they compensate for unrealised expectations.
There was no BA rep at MIA (I was already at the airport) but check in desk said they had been advised to tell everyone just to book own hotel etc and claim back. Virtually all hotels were $500+ for a short notice Saturday night. I checked with live chat and they said they were happy to cover this.
