Starship73

Hi,

I would like to book return flights from London to Singapore on specific dates in 2018, paying for two people in WTP and using a GUF2 to upgrade both to CW.

There is currently award seat availability in CW for the flights I want to book - so far so good.

Here’s the bit I don’t understand: if I do a dummy booking to buy the WTP tickets in the current BA.com sale they are priced at £648 + £465.91 taxes = £1,113.91 per person.

However, if I go through the process of redeeming my GUF2 on BA.com for the same WTP flights therefore upgrading to CW, they are priced at £1,098 + £568.91 = £1,666.91per person.

i can understand the taxes being higher if travelling in the CW cabin, but why is the base WTP fare per person £450 higher when redeeming the GUF2 as opposed to buying the WTP tickets without applying the voucher? Is it not possible to apply the GUF2 when taking advantage of the sale prices on BA.com?

Thanks

teledude

The website usually confuses WTP fare buckets recently...book online and call to apply the GUF2... They should waive the fee

mikeyfly

A regular glitch - book the WT+ fare on BA.com and then call up to apply the GUF2 and pay the additional charges (probably around £150each)

Starship73

Okay, thanks for the advice. Just leaves me with the risk that the 2 remaining CW seats get snapped up in between me booking the WTP tickets and getting through to the Gold line to exercise the GUF2. If I call them before booking the WTP tickets and explain the problem, is there any chance they would protect the reward seats for a limited time?

KARFA

Aus_Mal

BA have a 24 hour cancel for free if it came to that... https://www.britishairways.com/trave...gb?p_faqid=407

corporate-wage-slave

It's also not that much of a feeding frenzy anyway, outside CPT and some Caribbean destinations, you could probably leave it a bit. And you do have the 24 hour full refund option if the push came to the shove.

Starship73

mikeyfly

If this happens cancel (for free) the WT+ Seats. No loss

corporate-wage-slave

Do the whole thing in one transaction over the telephone. Yes there may be a service charge.

KARFA

How long does it take you to book a trip on ba.com? Yes you could be unlucky but they could have already gone in the space of this discussion. So frankly my advice would be get on with booking it now on ba.com and calling straight after.

As noted by others, worst case scenario is you can cancel in the cooling off period.

Starship73

Koru Flyer

IIRC BA have some cheap WTP fares that are actually an upgrade from an economy bucket, and therefore cannot be upgraded again from WTP to CW. I would check to make sure this is not what is happening. Again, book, phone and then cancel if you do not like the answer. All within 24 hours.

Or or just book through a TA who will not require the award space, just space in /I/. Makes it much easier and less stressful.

KF

KARFA

corporate-wage-slave

Indeed - and it's best to do a mental calculation of what the extra Avios and cash would be by checking the difference between two full redemptions, one in CW, the other in WTP, to see roughly what to expect. It may be a small amount different due to the way that currency movements may have affected the originally calculated set of overseas taxes. Auto-pricing is also known to get it wrong too. In which case ask the agent to send the booking to the Fares department where a specialist can calculate it manually.