First Leg No-Show: Urgent Advice Sought
Mar 10, 2019, 6:44 pm
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Sorry - if you're declining these pragmatic suggestions because NCL "looks really grim", you frankly deserve everything you'll get from the BA desk in LHR.
Mar 10, 2019, 6:44 pm
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Difficult to assess the chances - as others have stated, you are at their mercy. I would be on the phone to KL right now getting them to rebook your existing ticket from NCL and heading down there by Uber. It is not an easy journey, but it is by far the best chance you have of rescuing this trip at a half-reasonable cost.
Mar 10, 2019, 6:45 pm
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And see here (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/court-rules-airlines-must-refund-return-miss-flight-cancelled/) about the legality of the fare rules.
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Mar 10, 2019, 6:45 pm
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Personally I struggle to see that it's worth paying nearly a grand to salvage the original trip. Hence my suggestion about upfaring the ticket to a full flex so he can preserve the value for another trip entirely.
OP can get from GLA to BKK tomorrow for a ridiculously cheap £196, with reasonable flight times, if he actually needs to get there.
OP can get from GLA to BKK tomorrow for a ridiculously cheap £196, with reasonable flight times, if he actually needs to get there.
Mar 10, 2019, 6:48 pm
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I certainly did NOT mean to belittle the suggestion … I even check up on it as an option.
If my language/posts seem a bit 'off', then that's probably because I'm in a state of stress, just now.
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Mar 10, 2019, 6:50 pm
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Personally I struggle to see that it's worth paying nearly a grand to salvage the original trip. Hence my suggestion about upfaring the ticket to a full flex so he can preserve the value for another trip entirely.
OP can get from GLA to BKK tomorrow for a ridiculously cheap £196, with reasonable flight times, if he actually needs to get there.
OP can get from GLA to BKK tomorrow for a ridiculously cheap £196, with reasonable flight times, if he actually needs to get there.
Mar 10, 2019, 6:52 pm
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What are the actual change rules and AP restrictions for the AMS-BKK fare by the way? How much would it cost to simply change the date?
Mar 10, 2019, 6:57 pm
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These are surprisingly good last minute OW fares, although if OP's entire ticket is cancelled, I suspect that he/she will need a RT.
Mar 10, 2019, 7:00 pm
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However, the "Fare Conditions" do state that I can change for a fee!
I guess I'll need to talk to the BA staff at GLA tomorrow (I may then still be able to cancel the £££ GLA-LHR flight with a refund.)
But, anyway, I really DO APPRECIATE the suggestions you folks are giving - even if my replies aren't, perhaps, as polite as they should be.
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Mar 10, 2019, 7:01 pm
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Mar 10, 2019, 7:03 pm
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Personally, bar the helpful option above of rebooking from EDI to AMS, I'd still keep trying to call and just changing your original ticket to have time to arrive to AMS first (I would say that you can change online, but since you are checked in that may not be possible to do this online). After all, I don't know any of those AMS promotional fares that are not changeable. An alternative is to just book yourself on the cheap Eurowings flight that Lddn1 mentions, though you'll still need to buy a return part too. You can still change the original ticket anyway (but to a date further away to avoid a potentially hefty price difference) or just cancel and get the taxes back which may be close to paying your new Y trip.
In a nutshell, I really do not think that your plan of action is the way to go unless you know that the BA flight from AMS is cancelled. If not, as much as you may wish to throw yourself at the mercy of BA, chances are that this will be for exactly nothing. The odds are stacked against you and your Gold card will likely not change anything to the situation.
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Mar 10, 2019, 7:06 pm
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I'm vaguely assuming (I know I shouldn't do this) that OP has a cheap exEU business class ticket with fare rules saying it must be flown exactly as ticketed or all value is lost. Even if he/she could convince BA to apply the value toward a new ticket exLHR, the cost difference would be huge.
The few times I've done separate tickets to save thousands of dollars on longhaul business class trips, I do an overnight connection at least on the outbound, and I won't even book the last nonstop of the day for that. The money I save on plane tickets--when it makes sense to bother with this strategy--is more than enough to pay for a couple nights at a luxury hotel, which is a lot more fun that just giving my credit card number to an airline.
The few times I've done separate tickets to save thousands of dollars on longhaul business class trips, I do an overnight connection at least on the outbound, and I won't even book the last nonstop of the day for that. The money I save on plane tickets--when it makes sense to bother with this strategy--is more than enough to pay for a couple nights at a luxury hotel, which is a lot more fun that just giving my credit card number to an airline.