Booked on 2 flights, same route, same day, do I need to cancel one?
May 14, 2019, 3:12 am
#1
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Booked on 2 flights, same route, same day, do I need to cancel one?
For various complicated reasons, I'm booked as follows
Day 1
LHR-CPH
LHR - ARN
Day 2
ARN-LHR (13:20)
ARN-LHR (15:25)
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LHR-ARN and ARN-LHR (13:20) is one ticket
and
LHR-CPH and ARN-LHR (15:25) is one ticket
I'm 99% sure I'm going to take the 2nd set of flights via CPH
Do I need to cancel the other ticket? I may need to change which one I need to use at the last hour.
I know the tickets will be cancelled automatically if I don't take the outbound, but just wondering if the BA system will see me on 2 flights, both of which I could not possibly take, and cancel both, or the wrong one.
Day 1
LHR-CPH
LHR - ARN
Day 2
ARN-LHR (13:20)
ARN-LHR (15:25)
---
LHR-ARN and ARN-LHR (13:20) is one ticket
and
LHR-CPH and ARN-LHR (15:25) is one ticket
I'm 99% sure I'm going to take the 2nd set of flights via CPH
Do I need to cancel the other ticket? I may need to change which one I need to use at the last hour.
I know the tickets will be cancelled automatically if I don't take the outbound, but just wondering if the BA system will see me on 2 flights, both of which I could not possibly take, and cancel both, or the wrong one.
May 14, 2019, 3:36 am
#2
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No you don't need to cancel. The issue is if you have two tickets for the same flight, in those cases BA may auto cancel one. If it's different flights then there isn't a problem.
May 14, 2019, 4:13 am
#3
Join Date: Jun 2016
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 1,166
if different flights, it's fine - plenty of people do this in circumstances where it might be cheaper than a flexible ticket...I have a colleague will regularly show up for a day of meetings somewhere with 2 or 3 different seats home booked at different times, in case meetings run short or long
just make sure - as you know - that you fly the outbound leg of the ticket you want to fly the return portion of!
just make sure - as you know - that you fly the outbound leg of the ticket you want to fly the return portion of!
May 17, 2019, 6:06 am
#6
Join Date: Apr 2017
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 1,387
I think we should quote this thread when angrily asked (as happens quite frequently) how BA or any airline can be allowed to overbook flights.