Pickles119

I have booked numerous flights using GGL redemption over the last few years and have always received tier points and avios points on the booking. Recently I booked a long haul redemption flight in 2 separate bookings - my husband and kids got avios points and tier points on their booking but I didn’t on mine (made 2 days later). I had assumed that they had made an error with my booking but you seem to be suggesting that the opposite is true and I’ve been lucky in the past.

corporate-wage-slave

I would also suggest that you have simply been lucky in the past. Welcome to Flyertalk and welcome to the BA Forum Pickles119, it's good to see you here and I hope you can remain active too.

KARFA

Interesting experience with partner card nominations this week. My new year started on Monday and I wanted to nominate someone straight away. There was no button showing to nominate under the F&F list so I called to do it - I have had to call in the past so not that unusual.

Anyway the GGL agent who seemed to be pretty knowledgeable advised that partner cards do not get allocated until the first Saturday after your new year starts so it was not possible for them to nominate on the Monday. I don't know whether I haven't encountered this before because I haven't nominated quite so soon after the start of a new year or perhaps because in previous years the gap between start of year and first Saturday has been much shorter.

I have been checking my F&F page during the week to see if the nominate button appeared and it had not. Logged on to my account yesterday and the nominate button was there so it certainly appears to corroborate what the agent advised on Monday.

Oaxaca

I’ve just looked back at the emails received from BA over the last few years telling me that I can now nominate people for partner cards. They have indeed always arrived on a Saturday, not something you particularly notice from one year to the next.

When the 9th was a Friday or Saturday, they arrived on the Saturday a week later, the latest I’ve received one was on the 17th of the month. I don’t know if the nominate button was available before then.

wonderman

Ref space release booking.
I have a trip to Maldives with space release that I need to change. I'd like to change to Singapore or Sydney but the agent this eve told me I can only change to the same Avios zone.

Is this true?

I changed LA to mauritius last year which is zone 6 to zone 7 AFAIK.

Anyone know the correct policy on this?

KARFA

yes this is the case for all reward bookings, changes can only be done between routes in the same zone.

GGLwannabe

Given that, in order to maintain GGL status, all my long-haul flights are with Qatar, I often end up not being able to use jokers and upgrade vouchers before they expire. My daugher acquires an annual companion voucher through her BA Amex card. Is there any way for me to buy tickets for her and a companion, making use of her companion voucher in conjunction with my jokers and upgrade vouchers?

navylad

You can’t combine companion vouchers and upgrade vouchers on different accounts, if you live together you may be able to do it on a household account- hopefully someone with knowledge of this will be along shortly

wonderman

Thanks for info, at least zone 6 is pretty extensive.

Gastrocnemius

Only if you are the companion

Wozza2404

You can use your GUF vouchers and space release for her (or anyone), but you can't then add her 241 unless you are travelling as well.

GGLwannabe

Oh well, I thought it would have been rather too good to be true, but worth asking ...

abligh

I have a GUF which expires in a few days (7 Jan I believe). I'm unlikely to use it by then but understand it can be extended by 6 months by ringing BA. When is the best time to do that? Shortly before or shortly after it expires?

Beaulieu

Doesn't seem to matter. I've done it by phone and email both before and after with no issues...

Lefly

For the little I know, before expiring date.