August 2021 flight cancellations and operational changes
Mar 19, 2021, 8:53 am
#31
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Also, on a Saturday LHR-LIN is now down to 1 flight at 18:35?!
I can’t help but think this is BA cutting capacity so they can get higher yields and loads on the fewer flights that do run (exactly what the LCCs predicted after a slot waiver).
One of the benefits of BA was the great schedule, but this summer it’s pretty lacklustre.
Mar 22, 2021, 4:53 pm
#35
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You'd be better to just sit on your ticket for now and see what happens nearer the time I think. I doubt Ryanair fares on this route ever go crazy. Currently BA have a rebooking policy onto Lufthansa until end-June so that might get extended and become an option for you. Or you'll be able to get a full refund if the trip can't go ahead for some reason
One thing that might be interesting for you is KLM allows you to cancel and get a "refundable travel voucher" which you can then refund back to cash. So if you really want to book something now you could do that risk free
One thing that might be interesting for you is KLM allows you to cancel and get a "refundable travel voucher" which you can then refund back to cash. So if you really want to book something now you could do that risk free
Mar 23, 2021, 1:26 am
#36
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I suspect much of Central / South America will be restricted along with much of Africa by the U.K. gov. Asia on the other hand might not be open to the U.K. / EU.
Jun 10, 2021, 9:29 am
#37
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Just had notifcation that our August flights to Bali have been cancelled (the DOH-DPS flight) and we have been rebooked to Phuket (on the outbound only) instead. That's an interesting rebooking.
Your flight BA 6362 Doha Terminal 5 - Denpasar on Sat 21 Aug 2021, 02:05 has been cancelled
You have been rebooked on flight BA 7000 Doha Terminal 5 - Phuket Terminal I on Sat 21 Aug 2021, 02:55
Your new flights are detailed below. We hope you find these acceptable.
Jun 10, 2021, 9:40 am
#38
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I can't really plan any LH from BRU if they keep cancelling flights this way... there will be a point when BA will not be useful anymore from certain European destinations with heavy competition from Gulf and continental companies... you really need good connections to LHR in order to be able to compete.
Jun 10, 2021, 10:29 am
#39
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I can't really plan any LH from BRU if they keep cancelling flights this way... there will be a point when BA will not be useful anymore from certain European destinations with heavy competition from Gulf and continental companies... you really need good connections to LHR in order to be able to compete.
Jun 11, 2021, 2:58 am
#40
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Just had notifcation that our August flights to Bali have been cancelled (the DOH-DPS flight) and we have been rebooked to Phuket (on the outbound only) instead. That's an interesting rebooking.
Your flight BA 6362 Doha Terminal 5 - Denpasar on Sat 21 Aug 2021, 02:05 has been cancelled
You have been rebooked on flight BA 7000 Doha Terminal 5 - Phuket Terminal I on Sat 21 Aug 2021, 02:55
Your new flights are detailed below. We hope you find these acceptable.
Jun 11, 2021, 7:12 am
#41
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I appreciate this might be a little off topic but this morning had an email from the Bali IC asking if I intended to travel in August. Bali appear to be about to open at the end of July but if there are no flights and Hong Kong maintains its zero tolerance on over night transits, then no one is going to get there. Except perhaps via SQ and SIN.
Jun 21, 2021, 8:01 am
#43
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We had the same notification a couple of days ago from the Conrad, asking if we intended to travel. The initial answer was "yes probably", but it looks less certain now. CX is still selling via HKG. BA is selling via SIN with onward on JQ (our return is still intact BA-CX via HKG).
Jun 21, 2021, 1:46 pm
#44
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I booked an IST-LHR-BOS ticket for August - what do folks think the odds are that it'll actually fly? LHR-BOS seems to be flying daily even now, but IST-LHR seems a bit riskier.
Jun 21, 2021, 2:05 pm
#45
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There is another recent thread in the BA forum stating that this won't be an allowed connection in SIN. So I guess the only hope would be that QR might fly to DPS if Bali actually opens up - but I think BBC mentioned today that Indonesia is now in a record wave of Covid cases.
Last edited by Schwann; Jun 21, 2021 at 2:11 pm