Ex-Eu cannot get to AMS
Mar 18, 2018, 4:05 pm
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Welcome to FT.
If you mean SOU to AMS then I suspect you will need to find some way of getting yourself to AMS for the start of your separate ticket.
Can you confirm what your ex-EU flights are and who you are booked with. Let’s assume BA, then they won’t let you start in London, I suspect, although you may have had a chance if you’d been booked on BA to AMS in the first place.
Good luck in getting this resolved.
There is a 6.55am flight tomorrow from SOU to AMS, but still think getting a BA flight is your best option.
Edit. According to EF all BE flights on SOU/AMS tomorrow are zeroed out. And BA flights from LHR are showing very little availability tomorrow morning and afternoon. Just the odd J or Y seat left.
If you mean SOU to AMS then I suspect you will need to find some way of getting yourself to AMS for the start of your separate ticket.
Can you confirm what your ex-EU flights are and who you are booked with. Let’s assume BA, then they won’t let you start in London, I suspect, although you may have had a chance if you’d been booked on BA to AMS in the first place.
Good luck in getting this resolved.
There is a 6.55am flight tomorrow from SOU to AMS, but still think getting a BA flight is your best option.
Edit. According to EF all BE flights on SOU/AMS tomorrow are zeroed out. And BA flights from LHR are showing very little availability tomorrow morning and afternoon. Just the odd J or Y seat left.
Last edited by madfish; Mar 18, 2018 at 4:11 pm
Mar 18, 2018, 4:07 pm
#5
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Welcome to Flyertalk Accidental tourist, welcome in particular to the BA forum. I hope we can help you with this, but yes, we do need some more information. If LON-AMS was cancelled, was AMS-LON also cancelled? In other words were you doing a back to back? If so then you should have some leverage here in terms of starting your trip from London. But if you could give us some more information about timings then I'm sure someone can come up with some ideas for you. [If it was Southampton then I guess it will be complicated, that was a Flybe service presumably].
Mar 18, 2018, 4:11 pm
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You probably want to get yourself booked onto the flight that turns into the AMS->destination ex EU, presumably from Heathrow. That way if it's cancelled, the AMS-> leg will also be cancelled and you have more options. If it isn't cancelled, you make the start of the ex-EU. You might need to get someone to meet you landside at LHR with any luggage you want to check as you won't be able to do a B2B with luggage at AMS as I understand things.
[EDIT - in other words, what Fitch said
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[EDIT - in other words, what Fitch said
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Mar 18, 2018, 4:19 pm
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It was my Flybe flight on a reward booking that was cancelled from sou. No back to back and tomorrow’s flight looks fine. I may just have struck lucky via a tweet to ba. Looks like ba are going to show “flexibility” I will update when I try to check in tomorrow at T5.
Mar 18, 2018, 4:37 pm
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It was my Flybe flight on a reward booking that was cancelled from sou. No back to back and tomorrow’s flight looks fine. I may just have struck lucky via a tweet to ba. Looks like ba are going to show “flexibility” I will update when I try to check in tomorrow at T5.
Mar 18, 2018, 4:50 pm
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Thanks I know a verbal assurance is not worth a lot but I live in hope and will update tomorrow. Either way if I have to rebook I can do that tomorrow and should not have lost a lot in a day. My attitude is anything is better than the nothing I actually legally have ! Thanks for the help everyone
Mar 18, 2018, 5:24 pm
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As others have said, can you get yourself booked on to the outbound LON-AMS that will turn around as AMS-LON? That will solve your problem.
Other ideas:
Other ideas:
- Avios - plenty of seats in both Y and J ex-LHR and ex-LCY tomorrow morning
- Vueling are still selling LTN-AMS tomorrow morning for £50 (!)
- Book yourself the cheapest Plus fare for tomorrow, and change your ticket to the flight you want as the clock strikes midnight?!