Numerous British Airways cancellations at Gatwick for Summer 2016

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• Sebastian says:

  25 Sep25 September 07:57

  To be honest since they ruined Club Europe I now mainly fly Easyjet and pay for the front seat. This is normally 50-30% cheaper than a standard BA Economy seat, while due to me having a Priority Pass I still get lounge access. For me the only time I fly BA in Europe is if I need to fly at very short notice and there is an Avios redemption and/or if there is an option from City as that’s only a straightforward 30 minute journey from mine.

  • Erico1875 says:

    25 Sep25 September 08:46

    Flew Vueling BCN to EDI on Tuesday. New plane, decent legroom, nice staff. No real need for BA short haul any more

    • James67 says:

      25 Sep25 September 11:06

      Good timekeeping? I was thinking of using this service too.

• Jason says:

  25 Sep25 September 08:06

  We were booked on the Sunday Malta fight in August they auto booked us on the Monday but took little persuading to but us in the Saturday

• petewally1976 says:

  25 Sep25 September 08:32

  I’d got a reward booking outbound LGW->FUE booked for late August, went to book the return for 3rd September 355 days out and it never appeared. They then cancelled our outbound flight on Tuesday evening – to be fair they text me straight away and emailed my wife (who’s in the household account and part of the booking) although not me. After a short call to customer services yesterday, my Avios are back in my account but I haven’t had the cash refund through yet.

  I’m pretty hacked off with the whole experience, we’re now faced with either forking out for Easyjet or Ryanair flights to FUE or trawling through the very limited reward availability to elsewhere on our dates.

  • RP says:

    25 Sep25 September 17:33

    There seems to be plenty of availability to Crete if that suits? I’ve just switched my return so I hit Gatwick at 10.30pm on a Saturday rather than 5pm Friday rush hour. Also gives us 2 extra full days.

    • petewally1976 says:

      28 Sep28 September 12:29

      Thanks RP, yes I’ve been looking at Crete. Doesn’t quite work as nicely as FUE but may go with it. Got some other options too.

• Vivian says:

  25 Sep25 September 08:38

  I’d booked a redemption flight one-way from Dalaman to LGW for early May 2016 – this has been cancelled too.

  Called BA and they’ve refunded the avios, still waiting on the £35 fee though.

  Funnily they’ve assigned my booking reference onto someone else’s new booking so now I have a LHR-JFK flight for December showing on my account. A free flight as compensation perhaps?

  • JAXBA says:

    25 Sep25 September 09:07

    Unless you’re actually seeing someone else’s name in the ‘recycled’ PNR, the JFK segment should just be a dummy segment in your own cancelled booking. PNR codes do get reused but it usually takes a year or two. Have a look at the flight status in checkmytrip.com – if you can access the PNR using your name then it’s still yours.

• Andrew says:

  25 Sep25 September 09:01

  It looks as if, for DBV, they’ve cancelled the early morning Thursday departure from LGW but kept the lunchtime one – at least that’s what’s showing for the Thursday we’re booked on in May, although August seems to still be at 8-weekly (early morning daily plus lunchtime Thursday from LGW).

  It also seems as if they’ve blocked Y bookings whilst they sort out rebooking existing passengers because the entire week we’re booked, Y now seems “not available” or “sold out”.

• BP says:

  25 Sep25 September 09:13

  Had booked GLA-LGW-LAS CUN-LGW-GLA for June 2016

  The last leg to GLA is now cancelled and we’ve been rebooked from LHR. Any chance of BA paying for the £55 LGW-LHR airport transfer?

• fynn says:

  25 Sep25 September 09:48

  nice, they just canceled my flights to teneriffe, which i booked with a 241 voucher. is there any chance i get the voucher back? was issued through avios but expired 3 weeks ago.

  • Alan says:

    25 Sep25 September 09:53

    In that sort of situation I’d demand the voucher was reissued with a new expiry date given it’s totally their fault.

  • Mark says:

    25 Sep25 September 16:28

    That doesn’t sound right. Unless it has recently changed, the expiry date on the BAPP 241 vouchers is use by (for the outbound flight) rather than book by, so if it’s already expired you wouldn’t have been able to use it on those flights.

    Or are you talking about something different such as the companion ticket on the Lloyds Avios Premier rewards card?

• Halo says:

  25 Sep25 September 13:27

  There’s at least one BCN flight cancelled too – because we were on it. Now rebooked to LHR.

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