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TICKETS CANCELLED: BA fare error: First Class to Asia £795, Sydney £1335

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EDIT:  British Airways has decided not to honour these tickets.  You will see via Manage My Booking that your flight is cancelled.  No-one has yet received an explanatory email from BA and there is no timetable yet for payment refunds.

It seems that someone at British Airways has misfiled some fares out of Germany.

First Class to Kuala Lumpur out of any German airport is pricing at £795 return.  Sydney is £1,335 return – in First.

I am not at my desk so can’t write much.  Go to this Flyertalk thread for details.

I got it to price so it is working.  Whether BA will cancel your ticket or not is a different question ….. they may well do. 

I fully expect this fare to be withdrawn within 1 hour.


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Comments (97)

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  • CV3V says:

    I think its been spotted, it worked on dummy booking, but now its gone. Would have earned about 35,000 avios for that flight!

  • Ben says:

    I think its gone – at least to KUL.

    I got a Sydney e-ticket through in time though.

  • Bluejosh says:

    It’s just gone, I literally did one search for myself and the cheap deal turned up. Figured I better take my wife and kids too (!) so re did for family and it had gone. Literally went around 10.15 UK time.

  • Costa says:

    Started to make a booking shortly after this posted, then 5 minutes later, when choosing the real number of pax, the fare was gone!

  • Joshua says:

    Although I didn’t book I had found a FRA-LHR-SIN-SYD-SIN-LHR-FRA in CE/First around Easter and next summer for €2,129/£1,500!

  • ts77 says:

    Looks like it has gone

  • Troll Basher says:

    It worked here, FRA-SYD in JAN, F. £1335

    BA909, 15, 16, 902.

    Fingers crossed they honour it…

  • Rich says:

    I must have been one of the last, THANK YOU Rob!

    On a serious note, do you think these will be honoured?

    • Rob says:

      They honoured the Oslo fare to the USA two weeks ago. However, US law makes it harder to cancel mistake fares, and it was business class so not a huge drag on capacity.

      BA could literally have 2-3 F seats on every KUL flight for the next 11 months booked out via this, and they won’t want that.

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