New flexibility for BA flights departing (LHR?) to 25 July
Jul 14, 22, 2:42 am
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Originally Posted by AJA_
I also received this email, I assume because my ticket falls into the dates above and was an LHR departure.
Unfortunately I won't be taking advantage as I have already flown the out bound and am relying on the inbound operating as intended to get me home. Unless BA is willing to pay for extra hotel nights for the foreseeable? In which case I will happily extend my holiday
Unfortunately I won't be taking advantage as I have already flown the out bound and am relying on the inbound operating as intended to get me home. Unless BA is willing to pay for extra hotel nights for the foreseeable? In which case I will happily extend my holiday
Jul 14, 22, 2:56 am
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Would the policy extend to booking an earlier flight on the same day (subject to availability)? I might want to do this as I am worried that connection times that were once more than adequate might no longer be sufficient.
Jul 14, 22, 3:01 am
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Originally Posted by South London Bon Viveur
Would the policy extend to booking an earlier flight on the same day (subject to availability)? I might want to do this as I am worried that connection times that were once more than adequate might no longer be sufficient.
Jul 14, 22, 3:03 am
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Originally Posted by South London Bon Viveur
Would the policy extend to booking an earlier flight on the same day (subject to availability)? I might want to do this as I am worried that connection times that were once more than adequate might no longer be sufficient.
Jul 14, 22, 3:20 am
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I'm going to take advantage of this for my upcoming LHR-SJC trip in a few days. I'm going to move the outbound flight to a day later. My inbound is SJC-PHX-LHR in business class getting me 180 TPs. BA are offering me Club World on the direct SJC-LHR flight. Do we know if I will only get the 140TPs? or would they credit my account with the original 180 tier points?
Trying to get hold of BA to ask but cant get through on the phone as usual
Thanks in advance
Trying to get hold of BA to ask but cant get through on the phone as usual
Thanks in advance
Jul 14, 22, 3:22 am
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Originally Posted by martmeister
I'm going to take advantage of this for my upcoming LHR-SJC trip in a few days. I'm going to move the outbound flight to a day later. My inbound is SJC-PHX-LHR in business class getting me 180 TPs. BA are offering me Club World on the direct SJC-LHR flight. Do we know if I will only get the 140TPs? or would they credit my account with the original 180 tier points?
Trying to get hold of BA to ask but cant get through on the phone as usual
Thanks in advance
Trying to get hold of BA to ask but cant get through on the phone as usual
Thanks in advance
the policy says same route, so i am not sure you would get what you are proposing.
Jul 14, 22, 3:23 am
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It's really not a good idea to be calling BA for something like this, there is an Original Routing Credit guide via the BA Forum Dashboard. Strictly speaking if you initiated the change then you would get 140 TPs, but it's possible that they would either not spot the voluntary aspect and / or any target that you miss by 40 TPs would be taken into account for any status related targets.
Jul 14, 22, 3:26 am
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Originally Posted by KARFA
you would get 140 TPs if you did this voluntary change.
the policy says same route, so i am not sure you would get what you are proposing.
the policy says same route, so i am not sure you would get what you are proposing.
Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave
It's really not a good idea to be calling BA for something like this, there is an Original Routing Credit guide via the BA Forum Dashboard. Strictly speaking if you initiated the change then you would get 140 TPs, but it's possible that they would either not spot the voluntary aspect and / or any target that you miss by 40 TPs would be taken into account for any status related targets.
Jul 14, 22, 3:28 am
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Originally Posted by Tobias-UK
No. BA is only on the hook for hotels if they cancel your flight. If you choose to benefit from this additional flexibility you are responsible for your additional costs in choosing to do so.
I am not really sure how anyone who is currently not at home would take advantage of this unless they happened to have another one way flight already booked.
Jul 14, 22, 3:31 am
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Originally Posted by jonas123
If I move my flight to a December flight, can I still take advantage of BWC and get a voucher if I then choose not to fly it?
Jul 14, 22, 5:25 am
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Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave
Yes, you can fly earlier on this policy subject to space. If it's T5 to T5 and nothing gets cancelled, it's still possible to connect in under 1 hour outside peak hours, particularly if you have First Wing access.
Jul 14, 22, 5:36 am
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Originally Posted by Radiation Station
@corporate-wage-slave what would you consider peak times at the moment for T5? I have a one hour connection coming up in August (flights booked well before BA and LHR had their current woes).
Jul 14, 22, 5:39 am
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i think the bigger issue for 1 hour connections atm is BA's on time performance rather than actual time needed to get through the connections process. This is why I am not comfortable booking anything with much less than 2 hours for the time being.
Jul 14, 22, 6:42 am
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Originally Posted by KARFA
i think the bigger issue for 1 hour connections atm is BA's on time performance rather than actual time needed to get through the connections process. This is why I am not comfortable booking anything with much less than 2 hours for the time being.
