Can you cancel the return leg of an Avios redemption after flying outbound?

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• Nasir says:

  1 Dec1 December 14:33

  Incorrect information, you will only receive the avios back on the second booking if it was unavailable to book at the time of booking the outbound. Secondly to link the booking when using a CV the agent will add a link so the bookings are treated as one, meaning one set of fees for cancellation or change but also same terms and conditions as if it were one booking (prime one being no refund of avios if part flown)

  • Rob says:

    1 Dec1 December 15:05

    Thanks Nasir. Will update.

  • BJ says:

    1 Dec1 December 19:44

    This has not been my experience; where booking were lunked I have still been charged two sets of fees for both cancellations and changes.

    • meta says:

      1 Dec1 December 23:16

      Mine too and many others have reported the same. Nasir might have been lucky with agents.

      • Rob says:

        2 Dec2 December 08:56

        Nasir IS an agent.

        • BJ says:

          2 Dec2 December 23:31

          I suspected so 🙂 Still, as both you and Nasir know the result we get, for whatever reason, depends on the agent we get. Still, it is good to know what the actual rules are so thanks to Nasir for that! If either you or Nasir still see this can you define if “unavailable to book” simply means that the return was more than 355 days in advance of the date of outward booking or if it also refers to a booking made just a few weeks or months in advance where a return was not added because avios reward seats were unavailable? Thanks!

• Nihal says:

  1 Dec1 December 20:40

  Orders for A380s from all carriers, bar Emirates, dwindled so quickly that Airbus ended production of the jet last year. So, what’s this on the horizon? You wait two years for one superjumbo and then half a dozen turn up at once.
  Qatar, Korean Air, ANA and Thai Airways have abandoned plans to scrap their big birds. Singapore’s refurbished A380s have returned with double beds in Suites Class. Qantas’s redesigned A380s, which now have a bar in the nose cone, are back plying the kangaroo route. British Airways’ 12 A380s are shuttling between Dubai, US cities, South Africa and Heathrow. Emirates is investing more than $1 billion to upgrade its 120-strong A380 fleet, more than half of which are back in the skies. Lufthansa’s leviathans will be back next year. Overall, some 106 A380s from all carriers are returning to service, according to the data firm Cirium.
  The reason? Airlines got their passenger predictions wrong. Demand for air travel post pandemic has recovered so fast that carriers cannot get their hands on enough jets to satisfy it. Global supply chain snarl-ups and shortages of everything from microchips to labour that have delayed production of new long-haul jets have made matters worse.

  Could this be the beginning of a second life for the superjumbo? “Yes,” says Sir Tim Clark, the Emirates president, as he looks out of the window of his office at conga lines of the £350 million, 500-tonne planes ready to take off from Dubai to almost every major city in the world from Addis Ababa to Zurich. “The A380 is already one of the most sought-after travel experiences. Travellers say, ‘If the A380 is on the route, we’re going on it.’ There’s life yet.”
  Clark concedes that the older engines on the superjumbo are less efficient than those on the A350 or the 787 but he “challenges the assumptions” of the critics who say it is less economical and less “green” to operate. “You have to think of the whole environmental footprint. A full A380 represents around two 787-9s or two A350s. If you fill it, the fuel burn per seat mile compared with the two 787-9s is only 5 per cent more.” He adds: “Don’t forget the on-the-ground impact. You have to service two of the smaller jets for every one A380 and staff two gates. That’s two sets of tugs, lifts, staff, you name it.”

• Wanderlust says:

  2 Dec2 December 03:20

  A particular quirk was with the old Lloyds upgrade vouchers was that there could be no amendments/ cancellations once the outbound was flown.

  Is this replicated in the Barclays vouchers which I know are very similar to the old Lloyds Vouchers?

• Jan says:

  3 Dec3 December 12:26

  Hi Using my companion ticket I booked business class to Bridgetown from Belfast one way as flights not yet released When the new flight became available I used avios to get the return to London only as flights not yet available for Belfast. Rang next day to link the companion ticket and book the connecting flight to Belfast. Avios corrected but charged me approx an extra £90 to add Belfast. When I added up the taxes it was £200 more than if I had been able to booked the return at the time of my original booking. Why is this?

• Carls says:

  4 Dec4 December 04:32

  I’m currently in Thailand and on Weds arrive back in AMS where I have a 12 hour layover before my BA reward flight back to UK. To confirm, I can change this flight on the day to an earlier flight that still has reward seats available, for a £35 charge? Can this be done via the app or only by calling up?

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