BA May schedule - when do you think changes will be announced?
Mar 31, 2020, 1:09 am
#31
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@ botham - do I take it that your terms of contract were not varied in any way, as a result of current extreme circumstances ?
Will your travel insurance policy offer any comfort as regards the “refund situation” ?
Hope it all works out.
Will your travel insurance policy offer any comfort as regards the “refund situation” ?
Hope it all works out.
Mar 31, 2020, 2:14 am
#32
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Probably somewhere around the 2nd week or early 3rd week of April. We would see if flight restrictions for most countries would continue or not. Most countries have closed or restricted border entries until 17 April or 30 April, so I assume that BA won't cancel flights far in advance before governments publish something.
Mar 31, 2020, 3:31 am
#34
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I received an email from BA yesterday giving the option of requesting an e-voucher for a trip 6th May, so it seems that the cancellation may be coming soon. Seems fair to assume that BA are trying the e-voucher option first. The email is tailored, includes my booking reference and states that it's about a trip to London. (actually it's NCL LHR MIA return). I don't want another e-voucher, just the cash back. I'll wait.
Mar 31, 2020, 3:43 am
#35
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Whether PHL specifically runs is both a question of demand as well as whether the extension of both the foreigner ban (which influences demand) as well as the arrival screening requirements is extended. Currently, PHL cannot receive any international flights as it is not one of the dedicated screening points. I personally doubt that will be extended as far as May given Trump’s desire to open the country ASAP. And even large international hubs like IAH aren’t dedicated screening points so it is a disruptive point.
Mar 31, 2020, 3:48 am
#36
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I’m not worried about getting the money back and yes my insurance will cover us as I have an annual policy which I took out before all this mess came about. To be honest I haven’t read the terms of the contract but again I booked it well before the CV was known about.
Mar 31, 2020, 3:50 am
#37
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I wouldn’t assume as much. I don’t think at this point BA knows what it will fly in May. I think it assumes it will cancel most of its schedule but maybe less than it does in April. Given that, I think it is trying to get as many people to grab vouchers as possible now to avoid refunds later. My hunch is that the people booked on the 8:25am LHR-JFK flight in May received these as well even though that flight is currently scheduled to run every day in April.
Whether PHL specifically runs is both a question of demand as well as whether the extension of both the foreigner ban (which influences demand) as well as the arrival screening requirements is extended. Currently, PHL cannot receive any international flights as it is not one of the dedicated screening points. I personally doubt that will be extended as far as May given Trump’s desire to open the country ASAP. And even large international hubs like IAH aren’t dedicated screening points so it is a disruptive point.
Whether PHL specifically runs is both a question of demand as well as whether the extension of both the foreigner ban (which influences demand) as well as the arrival screening requirements is extended. Currently, PHL cannot receive any international flights as it is not one of the dedicated screening points. I personally doubt that will be extended as far as May given Trump’s desire to open the country ASAP. And even large international hubs like IAH aren’t dedicated screening points so it is a disruptive point.
But yes, BA might not operate it's full schedule to the USA in May 2020, even though the restrictions are lifted.
Mar 31, 2020, 4:05 am
#38
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They are trying to push me into taking vouchers for my Nice trip on May 8th, which was for a stag do to the classic Grand Prix which is now cancelled, but the flight has not yet been cancelled.
I’m then meant to be taking my girlfriend to Ljubljana for her birthday (and for a T3 lounge crawl at a nice time of day) on the last weekend of May, which they have not sent the voucher email for, so really hoping this might be the first of my future travels to happen.
Then our main summer holiday is the last week of June, to Croatia, which I’ve not had any comms about.
I’m then meant to be taking my girlfriend to Ljubljana for her birthday (and for a T3 lounge crawl at a nice time of day) on the last weekend of May, which they have not sent the voucher email for, so really hoping this might be the first of my future travels to happen.
Then our main summer holiday is the last week of June, to Croatia, which I’ve not had any comms about.
Mar 31, 2020, 4:12 am
#39
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I received an email from BA yesterday giving the option of requesting an e-voucher for a trip 6th May, so it seems that the cancellation may be coming soon. Seems fair to assume that BA are trying the e-voucher option first. The email is tailored, includes my booking reference and states that it's about a trip to London. (actually it's NCL LHR MIA return). I don't want another e-voucher, just the cash back. I'll wait.
I would also prefer cash to a voucher so will wait and see.
Mar 31, 2020, 4:21 am
#40
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By the way, PHL, IAH, and many other USA airports could not receive international flights only from China, Iran, EU, UK, and some others. For example, they could receive flights from other countries. United operates Houston - Sao Paulo flights at the moment.
But yes, BA might not operate it's full schedule to the USA in May 2020, even though the restrictions are lifted.
But yes, BA might not operate it's full schedule to the USA in May 2020, even though the restrictions are lifted.
Mar 31, 2020, 4:41 am
#41
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I’m then meant to be taking my girlfriend to Ljubljana for her birthday (and for a T3 lounge crawl at a nice time of day) on the last weekend of May, which they have not sent the voucher email for, so really hoping this might be the first of my future travels to happen.
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Had BA flights due over this past w/end - but were cancelled (and promptly refunded, in cash).
Looking ahead .... have already mentally written off all my own booked flights for May ...... and am pretty much resigned to losing June, as a travel month, too.
Long way still to go, IMHO.
Mar 31, 2020, 6:53 am
#43
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Got an odd one in my booking just now for my May trip. Luxembourg to Edinburgh via London. The booking, on the app, now shows two confirmed flights for the LHR>EDI leg, one leaving at 1140 and one leaving at 1310!
The original flight as well, from LUX to LHR, has been changed and is confirmed as one leaving an hour earlier, a different flight number altogether.
Can I try to get a refund by contesting these changes? All of it was changed without any notice...
The original flight as well, from LUX to LHR, has been changed and is confirmed as one leaving an hour earlier, a different flight number altogether.
Can I try to get a refund by contesting these changes? All of it was changed without any notice...
Mar 31, 2020, 7:30 am
#44
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We also got the email offering vouchers for flights on 2 May BHD-LHR-IAD.
We are booked on the early departure on the B747 which seems very unlikely to happen - not that I actually want to visit the USA in the wake of the explosion of covid-19 cases recently.
Given the mid-end April IAD schedule at present is single daily on the later A350 rotation, I’m assuming that some time soon we will either be cancelled or shifted to the A350 (which entitles us to a refund anyway?).
We are booked on the early departure on the B747 which seems very unlikely to happen - not that I actually want to visit the USA in the wake of the explosion of covid-19 cases recently.
Given the mid-end April IAD schedule at present is single daily on the later A350 rotation, I’m assuming that some time soon we will either be cancelled or shifted to the A350 (which entitles us to a refund anyway?).
Mar 31, 2020, 7:50 am
#45
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Got an odd one in my booking just now for my May trip. Luxembourg to Edinburgh via London. The booking, on the app, now shows two confirmed flights for the LHR>EDI leg, one leaving at 1140 and one leaving at 1310!
The original flight as well, from LUX to LHR, has been changed and is confirmed as one leaving an hour earlier, a different flight number altogether.
Can I try to get a refund by contesting these changes? All of it was changed without any notice...
The original flight as well, from LUX to LHR, has been changed and is confirmed as one leaving an hour earlier, a different flight number altogether.
Can I try to get a refund by contesting these changes? All of it was changed without any notice...