Can I same day change a Club Europe ticket to return to a different London airport?
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Can I same day change a Club Europe ticket to return to a different London airport?
I’ve got a BA holidays booking to travel to Cyprus over the summer, 2 adults and 2 children traveling in Club Europe, the outbound has booked into I class and the return into C class.
We’re travelling out from LHR to LCA but I’ve accidently chosen to return to LGW, the LHR and LGW flights depart within 5 minutes of each other, this has been booked for several months but I’ve only just noticed. I called BA holidays, but they said that there’s a Ł100 per person change fee plus a Ł150 per person fare difference so Ł1,000 to make the change.
Am I right in thinking that a C class ticket will allow me to make same day changes free of charge? And if so would I be allowed to make a same day change from the LCA > LGW onto the LCA > LHR? I did ask the BA holidays agent but she didn’t know.
Thanks for your help with this.
We’re travelling out from LHR to LCA but I’ve accidently chosen to return to LGW, the LHR and LGW flights depart within 5 minutes of each other, this has been booked for several months but I’ve only just noticed. I called BA holidays, but they said that there’s a Ł100 per person change fee plus a Ł150 per person fare difference so Ł1,000 to make the change.
Am I right in thinking that a C class ticket will allow me to make same day changes free of charge? And if so would I be allowed to make a same day change from the LCA > LGW onto the LCA > LHR? I did ask the BA holidays agent but she didn’t know.
Thanks for your help with this.
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Standalone CE point to point tickets almost always offer Same Day Change (there are some exceptions such as codeshares, some CUG and private fares), but that's a specific offering noted on BA.com during purchase - and I don't think BA Holiday tickets offer SDC as part of their package. I guess that would be different if the CE tickets were bought first and the other components added in to the package separately. On the other hand, there are reports of BA Holidays being flexible if something happens, so if there are delays on the day then you could try the Duty Desk again to see what happens.
But for normal SDC there is in any case no ability to alter the route - and that's to do with the fact that BA wants SDC to be done by revalidation rather than re-ticketing. More information in the main thread:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...change-ba.html
But for normal SDC there is in any case no ability to alter the route - and that's to do with the fact that BA wants SDC to be done by revalidation rather than re-ticketing. More information in the main thread:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...change-ba.html
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I’ve got a BA holidays booking to travel to Cyprus over the summer, 2 adults and 2 children traveling in Club Europe, the outbound has booked into I class and the return into C class.
We’re travelling out from LHR to LCA but I’ve accidently chosen to return to LGW, the LHR and LGW flights depart within 5 minutes of each other, this has been booked for several months but I’ve only just noticed. I called BA holidays, but they said that there’s a Ł100 per person change fee plus a Ł150 per person fare difference so Ł1,000 to make the change.
Am I right in thinking that a C class ticket will allow me to make same day changes free of charge? And if so would I be allowed to make a same day change from the LCA > LGW onto the LCA > LHR? I did ask the BA holidays agent but she didn’t know.
Thanks for your help with this.
We’re travelling out from LHR to LCA but I’ve accidently chosen to return to LGW, the LHR and LGW flights depart within 5 minutes of each other, this has been booked for several months but I’ve only just noticed. I called BA holidays, but they said that there’s a Ł100 per person change fee plus a Ł150 per person fare difference so Ł1,000 to make the change.
Am I right in thinking that a C class ticket will allow me to make same day changes free of charge? And if so would I be allowed to make a same day change from the LCA > LGW onto the LCA > LHR? I did ask the BA holidays agent but she didn’t know.
Thanks for your help with this.
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I’ve got a BA holidays booking to travel to Cyprus over the summer, 2 adults and 2 children traveling in Club Europe, the outbound has booked into I class and the return into C class.
We’re travelling out from LHR to LCA but I’ve accidently chosen to return to LGW, the LHR and LGW flights depart within 5 minutes of each other, this has been booked for several months but I’ve only just noticed. I called BA holidays, but they said that there’s a Ł100 per person change fee plus a Ł150 per person fare difference so Ł1,000 to make the change.
Am I right in thinking that a C class ticket will allow me to make same day changes free of charge? And if so would I be allowed to make a same day change from the LCA > LGW onto the LCA > LHR? I did ask the BA holidays agent but she didn’t know.
Thanks for your help with this.
We’re travelling out from LHR to LCA but I’ve accidently chosen to return to LGW, the LHR and LGW flights depart within 5 minutes of each other, this has been booked for several months but I’ve only just noticed. I called BA holidays, but they said that there’s a Ł100 per person change fee plus a Ł150 per person fare difference so Ł1,000 to make the change.
Am I right in thinking that a C class ticket will allow me to make same day changes free of charge? And if so would I be allowed to make a same day change from the LCA > LGW onto the LCA > LHR? I did ask the BA holidays agent but she didn’t know.
Thanks for your help with this.
1. Same day change isn't available on any fares to/from LCA (even on LHR-LHR flights)
2. LGW-LCA fare rules are completely different to their LHR, the C class fare LGW-LCA is not a flexible ticket, it was a Ł100 change fee. So you advised correctly, it will be Ł100 plus the difference in fare.
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Just looked at a LHR-LCA return in CE for some random dates in October and under "Your ticket conditions" it has the SDC text included "Free changes on the day of departure provided changes are for same date/cabin/route/airport." so LCA does seem to allow SDC.
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No. Your original ticket didn't have SDC (or FCOD to use BA lingo) and a POUG isn't going to give you it either. If it was a fare difference upgrade, then yes it would have SDC, so long as the various conditions for SDC were also met, so no airport switches, no open jaw and so on. More details on SDC / FCOD in the the main thread, to be found in the BA Forum Dashboard.