Another BA schedule change, FOC on OW partner?
Jul 11, 2019, 11:22 am
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Jul 11, 2019, 11:30 am
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another wrinkle, I just checked, and I booked this with Avios. Since the problem is due to schedule change can BA still shoehorn me into an AY J seat even if there's no J award avail? They said they cannot rebook me on a non-BA flight. HUCA?
Jul 11, 2019, 11:39 am
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award availability will be controlled by AY. It won't be BA's call. Helpful BA agent might be able to send a message to AY to see if their revenue management can open a space but that is the most they can do. You can ask first. But personally I doubt it. Yet it is so far away AY may just agree to open one seat as AY often operate widebodies to LHR nowadays.
Jul 11, 2019, 12:02 pm
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award availability will be controlled by AY. It won't be BA's call. Helpful BA agent might be able to send a message to AY to see if their revenue management can open a space but that is the most they can do. You can ask first. But personally I doubt it. Yet it is so far away AY may just agree to open one seat as AY often operate widebodies to LHR nowadays.
Jul 11, 2019, 12:18 pm
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they could only rebook on to another BA flight without regard to reward availability. A change on to a partner flight would require reward availability on the partner flight.
Jul 11, 2019, 12:48 pm
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Jul 12, 2019, 6:18 am
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I just did this for my LHR-HEL flights that were brought forward by over 3 hours. No problem over the phone. It did mean swapping CE seats for AY A359/A333 though!
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Jul 13, 2019, 4:16 am
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Another change MAN-LHR on a Saturday in Nov. First flight to LHR is now 09.45AM. So I now have 25 mins connection to my flight to RIO. What a mess. All I can do is change my travel from weekends to weekdays.. Shame on BA for disrupting travel from the regions that was booked in good faith.
Jul 13, 2019, 6:16 am
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Schedule changes
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Jul 13, 2019, 6:34 am
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Cauchy, I believe you are correct. I looked it up too 18 months or so back. According to what rules I could see there was no specific restriction in BAEC or CoC to avios only bookings. I was GGL at the time and queried it. I did get something in writing from BAEC which confirmed their position in my specific case (although my request they quote the specific paragraph and rule wasn't met).
However, coincidentally, an alternative direct routing came up via a schedule change, wholly on BA metal. So I called back and requested the re-route and it was granted; I even got some avios back.
As things worked out I didn't press the re-booking shenanigans ... I've now diversified away from avios on North American routes because of this, amongst other things, and the AA/BA propensity for awkward schedule changes.
However, coincidentally, an alternative direct routing came up via a schedule change, wholly on BA metal. So I called back and requested the re-route and it was granted; I even got some avios back.
As things worked out I didn't press the re-booking shenanigans ... I've now diversified away from avios on North American routes because of this, amongst other things, and the AA/BA propensity for awkward schedule changes.
Jul 13, 2019, 11:07 am
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Has anyone pushed the point and got anywhere? https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb...lines#schedule says
This is pretty clear in saying " If total delay is more than 120 minutes, lowest class available in the same cabin can be used" which suggests no redemption availability needed for a delay? But does it also apply for an early departure?
This is pretty clear in saying " If total delay is more than 120 minutes, lowest class available in the same cabin can be used" which suggests no redemption availability needed for a delay? But does it also apply for an early departure?
Having said that if your reward booking is on a ba flight, ba will move you on to another ba flight even if there is no reward availability on it. If your reward booking is on a partner airline then the partner airline’s policy applies and generally they will only allow ba/you to rebook on to flights with reward availability.
Aug 21, 2019, 8:28 am
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Bringing this thread back because I finally got to chat to BA about it. BA said that it's not possible to rebook me on a non-BA operated flight although it's a pure cash booking. HUCA?
My flight was the LHR-HEL 11.10 flight, moved me to 07:55 and I'm trying to rebook to 10:20 or 13:50 AY codeshare. Return flight has been changed from 17:00 to 13:50!!! This trip has been an absolute nightmare so far, my AY flights all had schedule changes as well so I had to reroute IVL-HEL-LHR to RVN-HEL-LHR and the day after my AY rebooking BA decides to do this to me.....
My flight was the LHR-HEL 11.10 flight, moved me to 07:55 and I'm trying to rebook to 10:20 or 13:50 AY codeshare. Return flight has been changed from 17:00 to 13:50!!! This trip has been an absolute nightmare so far, my AY flights all had schedule changes as well so I had to reroute IVL-HEL-LHR to RVN-HEL-LHR and the day after my AY rebooking BA decides to do this to me.....
Aug 21, 2019, 8:45 am
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Bringing this thread back because I finally got to chat to BA about it. BA said that it's not possible to rebook me on a non-BA operated flight although it's a pure cash booking. HUCA?
My flight was the LHR-HEL 11.10 flight, moved me to 07:55 and I'm trying to rebook to 10:20 or 13:50 AY codeshare. Return flight has been changed from 17:00 to 13:50!!! This trip has been an absolute nightmare so far, my AY flights all had schedule changes as well so I had to reroute IVL-HEL-LHR to RVN-HEL-LHR and the day after my AY rebooking BA decides to do this to me.....
My flight was the LHR-HEL 11.10 flight, moved me to 07:55 and I'm trying to rebook to 10:20 or 13:50 AY codeshare. Return flight has been changed from 17:00 to 13:50!!! This trip has been an absolute nightmare so far, my AY flights all had schedule changes as well so I had to reroute IVL-HEL-LHR to RVN-HEL-LHR and the day after my AY rebooking BA decides to do this to me.....