Mexico moving from Amber to Red List
Aug 5, 2021, 4:21 am
#32
Join Date: Aug 2021
Posts: 4
I had a BA holiday booked GAT - CUN on 15th August. We just received an email saying it was being cancelled by BA and that we will receive a refund, so any of you who have holiday bookings, check your emails. How quick are BA at processing refunds? The booking still doesn't show as cancelled when I log in.
Aug 5, 2021, 4:32 am
#33
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Sheffield
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 417
With only a token few long haul destinations open, they simply have to offer another status extension to those of us with a year reset in the first half of 2022. Despite the reduced earning thresholds, a number of people have lost half the year.
Well, apart from those that have been flying LHR-MAN-LHR 15 times a week....
Well, apart from those that have been flying LHR-MAN-LHR 15 times a week....
BAEC isn't a club for people who fly the most imaginative itineraries or long haul destinations, it's a club for people who are spending their cash how they choose to. BA could not care less where or when you're going.
They don't have to do a thing, and it may hurt you to know that I'll hit Gold in the next couple of months based on domestic and some European travel.
Aug 5, 2021, 4:37 am
#34
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Join Date: May 2014
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 12,237
Surely a depart on Sat 07/08 counts as you weren't in the red country at 04.00 on 08/08 ?
Aug 5, 2021, 4:41 am
#35
Ambassador, British Airways; FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Leeds, UK
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, GfL, HH Diamond
Posts: 42,888
If you arrive after 0400 on 8 August then you are under the amended list and you would be a red arrival if you had been in a red list country in the 10 day period before the day of your arrival - it doesn't matter what colour the country was when you left. The only way to avoid this is to arrive before 0400 on 8 August.
Aug 5, 2021, 7:31 am
#37
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: UK
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 753
I had a BA holiday booked GAT - CUN on 15th August. We just received an email saying it was being cancelled by BA and that we will receive a refund, so any of you who have holiday bookings, check your emails. How quick are BA at processing refunds? The booking still doesn't show as cancelled when I log in.
I just rebooked a previously cancelled flight lgw-cun, to the 15th at 11 o’clock this morning. 🙁
Aug 5, 2021, 7:49 am
#38
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Mexico
Programs: BAEC Gold / Marriott Platinum
Posts: 3,542
The additional flight out of Mexico city is at 3pm on Friday. I believe BA242 at night is already sold out. It wasn't showing up last night for tickets. Warning for anyone taking the additional flight at 3 is that Mexico City on a Friday lunch can be horrific for traffic, even in the pandemic. Leave plenty of time to get there.
Aug 5, 2021, 7:57 am
#40
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Mexico
Programs: BAEC Gold / Marriott Platinum
Posts: 3,542
Aug 5, 2021, 8:12 am
#41
Join Date: Mar 2019
Posts: 224
Aug 5, 2021, 8:30 am
#42
Join Date: Jan 2015
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 1,626
BBC were talking to a couple that just arrived in Mexico, and were on an immediate turn around with a new return flight booked via Miami. Is that allowed if you don't have the right to enter USA?
Aug 5, 2021, 8:57 am
#44
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Mexico
Programs: BAEC Gold / Marriott Platinum
Posts: 3,542
Not that I'm aware, but perhaps they have some kind of right to enter on dual nationality etc