British Airways suspends Oakland flights for the Winter timetable

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• Tom says:

  3 Apr3 April 13:45

  I was on the Oakland flight a couple of weeks ago, in CW, and it was 2/3 empty. I guess the demand just isn’t there.

  But the fare was a grand cheaper round-trip than the LHR-SFO flights and the CW product is exactly the same.

  I guess it was too good a value for pax to make any money for BA

  • Sussex Bantam says:

    3 Apr3 April 14:25

    “I guess it was too good a value for pax to make any money for BA” is a strange way of phrasing it !

    I’d go with

    “It was a grand cheaper than the flight to SFO and still PAX didn’t want to fly – hardly surprising it’s been cancelled”

  • Rob says:

    3 Apr3 April 14:28

    There was an interesting comment on Flyertalk. When you search for SanFran, it does not show the Oakland flight on ba.com. This is a massive mistake.

    • Kathy says:

      3 Apr3 April 17:00

      Huh! So the only people finding it were the people who already knew about it.

    • @mkcol says:

      3 Apr3 April 17:14

      That is ridiculous given that FLL comes up when you search MIA!

    • Nick says:

      3 Apr3 April 18:29

      In their defence (and there’s not much to credit BA’s IT with!) they desperately did want and try to fix this. It’s an Amadeus issue with the two airports not being coded with an IATA city, and as no other airline had a problem with it the bill would have fallen entirely on BA. And when the GDSs are involved, these bills are astronomical. Believe it or not, BA management was as frustrated as everyone with this.

      • Roger says:

        3 Apr3 April 20:10

        Is there similar issue with JKT (actually CGK), tried to use it on Amex Trave and wouldnt take it!

• Ant says:

  3 Apr3 April 14:42

  completely OT: but need two BA flights to make it to silver. Am i correct in thinking that a return HBO flight will do the trick? I am just trying to confirm that HBO fares count towards the qualifying flights. Thanks

  • Leo says:

    3 Apr3 April 15:08

    They do – just make sure they give you enough TPs IF you still need them. I got caught out this year – HBO to Stockholm was 5TPs not 10 etc. but yes they count as one of the 4 necessary flights.

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