Your BA American Express 2-4-1 companion vouchers have been extended (again)

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• Nevil says:

  15 Feb15 February 19:55

  My companion voucher was set to expire 3 Dec 21 so I made a dummy booking and cancelled to extend the validity but as I needed to use 2 companion vouchers had them cancel the voucher tonight and when it went back onto my account the voucher showed as a June 22 expiry!!!

• Bernard says:

  15 Feb15 February 20:15

  It is a shame that Creation Finance who administer the IHG Credit Card do not follow BA’s lead. They charge £99 for the credit card which offers a free night. I have already lost one free night. The free night expires very quickly. It is impossible to use with hotel stays not permitted.

  • Doug M says:

    15 Feb15 February 21:33

    They extended many, and the method they used resulted in an extra free night if used before 31st Aug 21.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    15 Feb15 February 21:57

    We all got an extra free night!

  • lumma says:

    16 Feb16 February 06:10

    How long does the free night normally last?

    • chris1922 says:

      16 Feb16 February 08:35

      One year

      • lumma says:

        16 Feb16 February 16:11

        Thanks

• Andrew says:

  15 Feb15 February 20:25

  Let’s hope we see another status extension too

  • Russ says:

    16 Feb16 February 11:44

    Nooooooooo let’s hope there’s no call for one anymore.

• AJA says:

  15 Feb15 February 20:36

  I am pleased BA will automatically add 6 months to any BA 2-4-1 vouchers earned before Dec2021 as I am a couple of months from the anniversary and likely to hit the 10k but would struggle to do that by 31 March which was the previous date for the automatic extension

• Dale says:

  15 Feb15 February 21:17

  Got my voucher on the free card in July 2020 (1 year validity initially extended to Jan 2022) – no further 6 month extension showing yet, hopefully their IT systems will catch up.

• KBuffett says:

  15 Feb15 February 21:27

  I now have two vouchers expiring within two weeks of each other. Dec 2021 and Jan 2022. Virtually impossible to use them within that time, I fear.
  And I am about to trigger a third voucher this week!

  • Alex D says:

    15 Feb15 February 23:10

    In your case, I would maybe book something just to cancel for a FTV which will extend till 2023

• Colin MacKinnon says:

  15 Feb15 February 23:41

  FTV for me, only got till Oct this autumn.

• Jamie Rennie says:

  16 Feb16 February 04:12

  I had flights booked to travel to India next month. They were booked during the half-avios sale. Apparently the sale was for flights taken between October 2020 and July 2021. My outbound to Mumbai was cancelled but my return remained on my “upcoming flights”. I’ve rebooked for next January but now BA want an extra £1100+ because I’m flying outside of the Oct 20-July 21 half-avios window. Surely this is unfair? Any advice would be welcomed.

  • Michael C says:

    16 Feb16 February 07:18

    Jamie, was your new booking beyond the 12 months of your original ticket issue date? I was allowed to do this (also half-Avios) but only on condition there were Avios seats available, and was told an option otherwise would be to pay extra cash.

    • Jamie Rennie says:

      18 Feb18 February 00:22

      Michael, my new booking is for January 2022 and the date of my original ticket issue date was October 2020. So yes, more than 12 months. I should probably have been a little clearer: I didn’t receive any notification of my outbound to Mumbai being cancelled, it just disappeared from my “upcoming flights”. One other possible salient point is that my return was from Chennai as opposed to Mumbai. Not sure if this affects anything. Thanks for your help and any further advice would be appreciated.

  • memesweeper says:

    16 Feb16 February 07:41

    Jamie, if BA cancelled on you they are not allowed to charge you more Avios nor more money. EC261 re-routing rights will apply to you.

    • Michael C says:

      16 Feb16 February 08:53

      Quite agree, MS, though I was told a “new condition” (massive eyeroll) for a rebooking after the 12-month period was Avios availability…it did work out for me (and I could even book online), but who knows if this is a “thing” or just a random operator!

      • Richard G says:

        16 Feb16 February 11:18

        I had the twelve month thing told to me when I called last week (cancelled 241 / 50% Avios sale). 🙁

    • Jamie Rennie says:

      18 Feb18 February 00:37

      Hi memesweeper. See my reply to Michael above. My Manchester-Mumbai flight just disappeared from my “upcoming flights” but not before they altered my MAN-LHR flight to arrive into LHR 3 hours after my Mumbai flight would have departed! Then a couple of days later both flights MAN-LHR and LHR-BOM disappeared. Nobody got in touch with me at any stage. A week ago I got in touch with BA because my flight from Chennai back to the UK was still showing as live even though my flight to India had a) been messed up connection wise and b) then been “disappeared”. They rebooked my flights for January 2022 with no mention of any problems or extra payment, neither cash nor extra avios. A few days afterwards that I got an e-mail from BA asking me to get in touch with them re my Chennai-UK flight when in fact it was to do with my whole booking which they restarted and then I was asked for an extra £1100+ to go with my original cost of £1600+ plus 187,500 avios (3 persons in the half-avios sale). Sorry to rattle on but I probably should have explained myself better first time around.

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