Originally Posted by devondan
From the way the BA fare explorer works though, it looks like the inbound fare is identical to your outbound fair, so long as the class is available?
In which case, with the sale offerring a £50 discount on each sector, since the only date that change now looks possible on is the return, the £50 change fee, plus the £50 difference from sale to regular fare, would equal the £100 I had saved.
Not only the class needs to be available, but the fare needs to be valid on the day of the change as well, as I understand it.
What I think you have currently got is a £1,234 fare + £152.40 tax = £1,386.40 (fare basis TKNNGB7). With the birthday discount, you're actually paying £1,134 + £152.40 = £1,286.40.
Suppose on 1 February you want to change the return date. What will happen is this, as I understand it. Your ticket will be repriced for your new travel dates. By 1 February, the sale fares will have gone, and the T class sale fare (TKNNGB7) will then have expired.
So your entire travel will be repriced at the non-sale T class fare of £1,702 + tax (fare basis TKBBGB). I suspect that because it's being repriced after the birthday discount has come to an end, that you'll lose that as well. So you will end up paying the difference between £1,702 and £1,134 = £568, plus the £50 change fee for a total of £618.
Again, if I have misunderstood the way that it works, I'll be glad to be corrected.
The other thing that I have just noticed,
looking at the T&C, is this:-
9. Tickets are non-changeable and non-refundable. No cash or credit alternative will be offered.
Whether that overrides the normal flexibility of the fare rules is something which you might have to ask BA about. It
could mean that you cannot actually change the ticket at all after purchase if you've taken advantage of the discount.