Originally Posted by
Tafflyer
Regardless of what the status of hostilities in the Middle East will be at the time of your planned holiday, IMHO the risk calculation has changed dramatically. When travel is required is one thing but discretionary travel another and as the UK Government and others are strongly advising against such travel, then I believe this gives you the right to cancel. BA will tell you they see it differently and have disempowered their agents to make any decisions on this, but that changes nothing.
it has right this moment. the question is how far out does that carry? i don't see how you know whether the "performance of the package" or "carriage of passengers to the destination" is significantly affected when we have just under 4 weeks before the OP's holiday? I am sure the picture will become clearer in maybe 2 weeks time and BA forward policies will start to cover April at that stage.
EDIT: If it were me, I would be writing to cancel the arrangements and quoting the FCDO advice. If BA do not refund it, then proceed to your travel insurance. Your insurers would not cover you for travel against FCDO advice, so when that advice not to travel kicks in then they must, logically, allow the cancellation charges. But, even if out of pocket, I still would not be going anywhere near the UAE for the moment.
this seems to be your feeling tho, which maybe valid but isn't the grounds which allow for cancellation the OP has linked to.