aidy

To close this, the bonus points did not work on the wifes supp card, so i have just given her mine to use when doing the weekly shop

DaveS

That is good news for me. The link where it is mentioned is here Tiers and benefits

2002ad

Can I check, with anyone that has done it recently, when adding a a return leg to a 241 booking (having already booked the outbound online when it was released), is it still BA policy to not charge the £35 change fee?

Dselvan

Yes. There may be extra to pay taxes dependent on routes, but no change fees.

2002ad

Fantastic, thanks for the quick reply!

TWCLAM

2nd Data point to confirm yes they aren't charging the change fee as per an open-jaw booking finished off (rtn leg booked) 8 weeks ago ( that said since then ive had to rebook the entire trip 3 bloody times since due to BA so I kind of wish they had so I could then charge them the same everytime lol)

louie-m

Officially at least, only if the return was not bookable (ie too far off) when the outbound was booked.

cfbaec

Hi everyone, Does anyone know if a 241 booking made today for a flight this October would be eligible for a FTV if cancelled through personal choice rather than a BA cancellation? (The 'Book with Confidence' page on BA looks a bit ambiguous and suggests only flights up until the end of August would be eligible).
Thanks,
Chris

KARFA

Hi. Yes, for a booking made today for travel in October you would be able to get a FTV if you did not want to travel - the FTV would also have the advantage of keeping the 241 alive until April 2022. As it is a reward you would also have the option of cancelling as normal and you would get everything back minus the £35 per person cancellation fee.

https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb...clickpage=HOME

cfbaec

Thanks for that confirmation KARFA. That was my reading of it too, until I started to doubt myself after I clicked on the T&Cs and read "If you are due to travel between now and 31 August 2020 you can claim a voucher to the value of your booking, valid for travel until 30 April 2022." I guess they haven't updated the linked page.

TWCLAM

Can confirm that full refund is being issued of all taxes etc and avios as we've done it purely out of 'no longer wish to fly' on one of our Amex 2-4-1's ( not sure if SOP but in that specific case the £35 fee was waived as well but this may have simply been a nice agent / the fact some mutual flirting was going on )

botham

I have used a 2-4-1 voucher for flights to Ljubljana in September, but now discover that passengers returning from Slovenia have to quarantine for 14 days. As we are travelling to Austria where the reciprocal arrangement is in place, I have found that I can get a much better deal on a reward flights from LGW to SZG, but when trying to cancel 2-4-1 I get to a screen offering a voucher, presumably for the £100 taxes. Should the taxes be refunded in cash?

Pre Covid-19 I wouldn’t dream of using a two for one for European flights but we’ve decided not to travel long haul until a vaccine is found.

Incidentally, is it possible to transfer the 2-4-1 to SZG flights rather than cancelling?

KARFA

The cancel options button on MMB automatically goes to the future travel voucher application page now. If you went down that route everything you originally paid is held on the voucher, so the cash is held as cash, avios as avios, and the 241. You could therefore apply for a FTV, then call to use that to book the LGW-SZG flights. The advantage is that there would be no cancellation fees taken from the £100. You would need reward availability on your new flights.

If you want you could voluntarily cancel but you would have to call to do that. Everything would be refunded minus the cancellation fee of £35 per person which is taken from the £100. You could wait to see if the flights get cancelled, in which case you would still have to call to cancel and get a refund, but there would be no cancellation fees to pay.

In terms of just changing the existing booking, that would only be possible if you are changing to another route in the same band. For SZG and LJU, unfortunately they are not.

pauldb

Careful - it could change but at the moment Austria is only open to UK travellers for essential travel, either with a recent test or self-isolation. https://www.austria.info/en/service-...y-requirements

botham

Thanks, but I thought this advice changes on July 10. I’ll await my voucher but I reckon we’ll be ok by September.