BWC ends at midnight tonight (7-JUN)
Jun 7, 2022, 10:54 am
#17
Join Date: Apr 2015
Posts: 1,350
Oh how I wish we had a BA credit card here in the Republic of Ireland! I earn almost all my Avios from flying and don't think about how many I could be earning. Time to move to the UK... 
Great strategy you have there though, I'll certainly have to keep that in mind in future as that's a smart way to do it and avoids the extra cost of a hotel or car hire that may not be required. Thanks for sharing that!
Great strategy you have there though, I'll certainly have to keep that in mind in future as that's a smart way to do it and avoids the extra cost of a hotel or car hire that may not be required. Thanks for sharing that!
Jun 7, 2022, 10:56 am
#18
Join Date: Apr 2015
Posts: 1,350
Would have loved it to stay permanently though... but now, instead, I am using BA Holidays to make deposits and pay it closer in. Something I'd also never ever used or done before the pandemic... it's actually very handy to pay off expensive business class flights, even if it does have to have a car or hotel added for at least one day.
Jun 7, 2022, 11:26 am
#19
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 3,636
So, for the extremely casual user of BA, is there any reason I would want to book a Avios flight today (for mid-August) versus booking it later? As a non-elite, it looks like I would be hit with 35GBP per person to cancel in either case and I think I can change the booking under the same restrictions whether I book today or tomorrow, true? I may well have missed something critical, but.....
Jun 7, 2022, 11:43 am
#20
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: London
Programs: BA Silver (for now)
Posts: 1,000
So, for the extremely casual user of BA, is there any reason I would want to book a Avios flight today (for mid-August) versus booking it later? As a non-elite, it looks like I would be hit with 35GBP per person to cancel in either case and I think I can change the booking under the same restrictions whether I book today or tomorrow, true? I may well have missed something critical, but.....
Jun 7, 2022, 12:03 pm
#22
Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: West of Cowtown, TX
Programs: BA Silver,AA,EI&UA
Posts: 85
Trying to book a trip before the deadline arrives, but the BA site will not accept my e-voucher (but will accept avios) as part payment. Voucher # and name entered are identical to voucher e-mail details. Have had no difficulty using e-vouchers before today. Will keep trying, but frustrated!
Just noticed something. E-voucher works for r/t ticket as 3 fields requested for verification - e-mail, name and voucher #, but my attempt for a multi city ticket requests only name and voucher # verification of e-voucher. Seems the BA site needs an e-mail address to authenticate my e-voucher, but booking a multi city ticket has no field to enter this information. Anyone have any ideas on a solution other than getting into the BA call queue?
Just noticed something. E-voucher works for r/t ticket as 3 fields requested for verification - e-mail, name and voucher #, but my attempt for a multi city ticket requests only name and voucher # verification of e-voucher. Seems the BA site needs an e-mail address to authenticate my e-voucher, but booking a multi city ticket has no field to enter this information. Anyone have any ideas on a solution other than getting into the BA call queue?
Last edited by Nil SeAnn; Jun 7, 2022 at 12:28 pm
Jun 7, 2022, 12:32 pm
#23
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Leeds, UK
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, GfL, HH Diamond
Posts: 42,888
Trying to book a trip before the deadline arrives, but the BA site will not accept my e-voucher (but will accept avios) as part payment. Voucher # and name entered are identical to voucher e-mail details. Have had no difficulty using e-vouchers before today. Will keep trying, but frustrated!
Just noticed something. E-voucher works for r/t ticket as 3 fields requested for verification - e-mail, name and voucher #, but my attempt for a multi city ticket requests only name and voucher # verification of e-voucher. Seems the BA site needs an e-mail address to authenticate my e-voucher, but booking a multi city ticket has no field to enter this information. Anyone have any ideas on a solution other than getting into the BA call queue?
Just noticed something. E-voucher works for r/t ticket as 3 fields requested for verification - e-mail, name and voucher #, but my attempt for a multi city ticket requests only name and voucher # verification of e-voucher. Seems the BA site needs an e-mail address to authenticate my e-voucher, but booking a multi city ticket has no field to enter this information. Anyone have any ideas on a solution other than getting into the BA call queue?
Jun 7, 2022, 1:13 pm
#24
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Programs: BA Gold, Mucci
Posts: 2,065
Jun 7, 2022, 1:45 pm
#26
Join Date: Sep 2013
Programs: BAEC Gold, EK Skywards (enhanced Blue !), Oman Air Sindbad Gold
Posts: 6,395
Perhaps they cannot go on together but this one had its own termination built-in, in so far as it did not apply to flights beyond September. BA could have left it to die of its own death rather than kill it early, especially as we are not out of the woods with cancellation problems and being strict with pax on cancellation policies when the airline is forced to cancel flights far more than normal is not a good look.
That said, a revision to incorporate the sort of compromise outlined here by NickB is an excellent idea, and would go a long way to reassuring people during these coming months which remain so full of uncertainty and - at times - a fair amount of stress / hassle too.
Jun 7, 2022, 2:02 pm
#27
Join Date: Jul 2020
Programs: BA Bronze
Posts: 78
My way of doing that is to pay on BA Amex and then transfer the balance to a 0% card and pay it off over a few months. I have three credit cards that seem to offer a 0% transfer every month and I just dip in to one of those if I book something that's a touch on the pricey side.
Jun 7, 2022, 2:06 pm
#28
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: The North
Posts: 1,844
I'm trying to change the date of a return leg of a simple xxx-LHR return just now online. Though I get through the first couple of pages (which leg do you wish to change, do you wish to change the date) and get to the date grid, when I try to move the date about half of the time I get the following error.
And having to start over from scratch. As you might imagine, this is quite frustrating.
And having to start over from scratch. As you might imagine, this is quite frustrating.
Jun 7, 2022, 2:26 pm
#30
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: The North
Posts: 1,844
I'm trying to change the date of a return leg of a simple xxx-LHR return just now online. Though I get through the first couple of pages (which leg do you wish to change, do you wish to change the date) and get to the date grid, when I try to move the date about half of the time I get the following error.
And having to start over from scratch. As you might imagine, this is quite frustrating.
And having to start over from scratch. As you might imagine, this is quite frustrating.
As I am of a generous disposition, I assume this isn't a deliberate upselling tactic but rather BA IT's inability to process a change that involves a refund - only to accept additional payment.
But regardless, finding this out a couple of hours before BWC ends (which hasn't even been advertised) but after the phone like has shut at 8pm (at least the one shown when you click the "Contact Us" link so helpfully provided) is... irksome.