Frequentflyer99

Worked a treat thank you ! Strange that they still showed up on my EC page as booked flights, even though my EC number was not in them. All very strange, but at least your workaround worked.

Confus

Correct, but in this circumstance aren’t they put back into £ first? So the EMD voucher won’t contain any reference to points, only the original cash price before CAAV was used. I was talking about Avios used as payment for redemption inventory. Apologies if that wasn’t clear.

eh220160

Advice needed - have an confirmed ticketed 241 (expiry July 21) Avios booking for Sep 21 which is awarding full TPs and Avios (voucher has gone through 2 iterations of FTVs in mixed classes and OJ destinations - so I suspect this is what has given rise to the anomaly vs MMB showing TPs and Avios being awarded for an unticketed booking as is normally the case).

Unfortunately the outbound (TYO) will in all likelihood not fly - other than waiting for the inevitable cancellation and requesting a further FTV (to preserve the 241 assuming no further general extension) - is there anything clever I can do to also preserve the TPs (I no longer want to fly to the destinations in the current booking).

Thanks very much in advance.

KARFA

Not really. I think as you note you have ended up with a booking in revenue selling classes due to previous involuntary changes to your reward booking. Reward bookings don't earn any TPs and avios normally. If you go with a new FTV, then you will just have your avios and cash on a FTV for use towards a new booking, and you need reward availability for your new flights. You should expect your new booking will book in to reward selling classes and not earn as normal.

Easy come, easy go I guess

squawk

I've quoted Globaliser from the 2-4-1 thread, as I think this comes under "Book with Confidence":

I may be in a position where I have to avail myself of this possibility, as one of my vouchers expires in early March next year and I know for certain I won't be able to use it in 2020 - leaving only a couple of months which are difficult work-wise for my travelling companion.

What is the current 'best practice' for this? To avoid tying up too much money and Avios in the FTV, I assume it is
1) Book somewhere that has lower taxes/isn't so far away
2) Cancel at some point before travel to tie the 2-4-1, Avios and taxes into an FTV (logically, the further in the future you book the reward flight and subsequently cancel, the further in future dates would have opened up by that point). At this point the voucher would be extended to April 2023 - regardless of actual expiry?
3) Ring up to rebook (to the desired destination on the desired dates dates), paying difference in Avios and TFC - the only restriction being that the two named people on the original booking have to be the same.

Is there anything I'm missing with this? I assume that under BWC, you don't pay the £35 per person handling fee?

Dicksbits

We have LHR - ALC rtn flights booked in September, upgraded to Club via a gold upgrade voucher which expires in October. I assume if we want to change the dates we have up until checkin closes to rebook the dates .. the three week rule doesn’t apply?

vintagepilot

Yes, I think that is all correct. In practice, I don't think it matters when you book for or when you choose to cancel. I have cancelled (for FTV) and rebooked in the same call. Or, you can get the FTV (with no £35 charge) and then sit on it until you know what you want to do - but it has to be rebooked on the phone. You can however rebook in stages, ie outbound initially and then add the return when its comes into range.

If you retrospectively decide that you want to cancel outright, you can do so, even it the booking is held in a FTV, and at that stage you would lose the £35pp but the voucher will retain its original expiry date - unless there is another raft of extensions.

corporate-wage-slave

The three week rule relates to BA Holiday bookings, and not necessarily in all circumstances either. You can get an FTV up to a few hours before departure, but don't leave it to the last moment in case there are IT outages.

Dicksbits

thanks for the advice - that gives me flexibility in case of late changes by the government

squawk

Thanks vintagepilot - that's really helpful. Much appreciated!

ratechaser

Crystal ball time I know, but what are people's thoughts about the likelihood that BWC will be extended further to cover bookings into next Summer (rather than the current cut off at the end of April)

KARFA

I predict either they will be extended or they won’t be.

I am confident of being proved right in a few months time! I am not called Nostradamus for nothing

ratechaser

Mods, you need to watch this one, looks like a classic case of post count building as there is no useful content whatsoever

ISTFlyer

I personally think that it would be extended as still border restrictions to some countries would still remain in place. ( Eastern Asian Countries, Australia, etc... )

Chrisnichols

Does anyone know how long it is currently taking for voucher requests to be processed? I submitted the online form to cancel/request vouchers for 2 bookings on Friday. I have had an email acknowledgment for one (BAH) but not the other (flight only) but no actual vouchers yet.

Many thanks, Chris