Fatdickie

Hi all

i was hoping someone can help me with explaining in laymans terms how refunds and change of flights work?
I have never needed to do this before so wanted to get my head round it first.

I am Silver and have a flight booked from LGW to Faro next month
out on a tuesday back on a saturday in economy. Hand luggage only.

for the first time ever I might need to change the return flight to the friday night.

my Original fare is £103 return
which it says is £60 fare and £43 taxes.

Therefore an average of £52 each way

i looked on "change" within manage my booking and it says an additional price of around £73.?

is this correct?

do I get taxes returned and they are factored in?

looking at a one way ticket from Faro on the friday it shows as £56...on skyscanner

is it better just to book an extra ticket to come home seperately and just no show on the Original ticket?

Or am I reading this all wrong?

KARFA

UKtravelbear

That's not how it works.

Some of the fees and taxes are asymmetric so for example APD is payable on ex-UK flights but not on flights to the UK. So the ex-UK leg will be more expensive.

The base fare could also be different.

But as to the additional £73 it will be a mix of of the BA change fee and any BA fare differences. Airport fees and government taxes are the same no matter the day of the week you fly.

Fatdickie

Thank you both

so if it is a £60 charge to change a flight on top of any pricing difference between the two fare that makes sense.
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but what is the £15 cancellation charge which has been mentioned in threads elsewhere..

if I were to cancel the return leg
(now I know it is not priced the same both ways, but for this example let's imagine it is)
£60 plus £43 taxes return
Therefore £30 plus £21.50 taxes each way

so the £30 fare is unrefundable for basic fare
but the taxes are....
so £21.50
but BA charge a £15 admin fee
so would refund £6.50??

is that correct.

cauchy

It really comes down to the split of fare and taxes between the outbound and return leg. Usually (not necessarily always) the 'taxes' are higher when flying outbound from the UK, than for the return leg. So you could end up with no refund (e.g. if the taxes on the return leg are less than the cancellation fee).

Ryanair is 16 pounds on each Friday in July. Just get that? And there's no advantage to cancelling your BA ticket now, may as well wait to see if there's a schedule change / operational issue, or if your plans change again.

caz312

breakdown of taxes
United Kingdom Passenger Service Charge Departures (UB)£14.72
United Kingdom Air Passenger Duty APD (GB)£13.00
Portugal Braganca Faro Lisbon Porto Vila Real Beja Passenger Service Charge (YP)£11.60
Portugal Security Tax (PT)£4.60
the UK taxes are only applicable for the outbound flight