British Airways cancels all Maldives flights until 13th August

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• Benilyn says:

  14 May14 May 14:16

  If you have PE booked with Avios, and no more PE available with BA for the day you want to fly, what happens then when you try rebook?

  • Jonathan says:

    14 May14 May 15:12

    You get put in Economy. They’ll offer a fare difference refund rather than the EU261 75% refund though so will have to fight for the latter.

    • Lady London says:

      14 May14 May 15:26

      It’s less than 75% for downgrade PY to Y anyway, I am afraid

      • pauldb says:

        14 May14 May 18:24

        Why?

      • ChrisC says:

        15 May15 May 02:35

        Not like you to get this stuff wrong LL

        A downgrade is a straight 75% reimbursement (for a flight of this length)

        There is no cabin differential.

        Benilyn will also be reimbursed the difference in the APD rates if the downgrade is in the ex UK leg

• mr_jetlag says:

  14 May14 May 14:24

  Whew. Glad we pulled the trigger on six nights in the Maldives for our anniversary last month.

• Stu N says:

  14 May14 May 14:24

  If BA have cancelled your flight, you don’t need Avios availability for the new dates to rebook so as long as seats are available for sale on your new dates you should be fine.

  If there are no PE seats at all (i.e. they are not even selling seats for cash) then you’re out of luck and will, I guess, either have to (i) find new dates with seats available; (ii) downgrade to economy or (iii) push for an indirect routing from someone who does PE on that route, if anyone offers it.

  • Stu N says:

    14 May14 May 14:24

    That was reply to Benilyn by the way.

    • Benilyn says:

      14 May14 May 14:39

      Thanks!

      • meta says:

        14 May14 May 15:05

        You are due downgrade compo if you accept economy, but you’ll need to fly first.

• Alison says:

  14 May14 May 14:32

  We were due to fly 6th August, outbound journey cancelled by BA yesterday. Took the decision away from us as have been concerned that Maldives COVID cases have increased to around 1400 a day. We had managed to get Business using Avios and 241. Hoping we can therefore request cash seats later in the year.

  • Sam G says:

    14 May14 May 15:35

    Yes you can – any time as long as you travel outbound within 1 year of the date you booked

  • Rachel says:

    17 May17 May 20:05

    Hi Alison – do you know what time on Thursday 13th BA cancelled your flights? I appreciate it seems a strange question but we cancelled our flights on the same day, only to receive a voucher. I am hoping we may be able to request a cash refund. Thanks

• Martin says:

  14 May14 May 14:43

  I also have 2 business class flight cancelled that we’re booked using avios with 241 voucher. When I go to the rebooking link from the email it allows me to select new dates online however not all dates are available. Some dates in November shows as no flights available even though I’m able to book a cash ticket in J on exactly those dates. What exact availability do I need to be able to rebook into?

  • Lady London says:

    14 May14 May 15:04

    any seat being sold in your cabin class is yours by right under EU261 if BA cancelled your flight but you will have to call as online only avios possibly showable if that is how you booked.

    I would advise you give it 5-7 days for systems to update and try again online then call if you still cant do the rebook yourself

    • Sam G says:

      14 May14 May 15:36

      Easiest thing is to send a twitter DM with what you want – you just need any availability – outbound to be flown within 1 year of the date you booked

      • Sam G says:

        14 May14 May 15:37

        worth saying though that you only get one shot – you currently have a flexible ticket in your hand, so unless it’s a peak peak date and you’re worried the flight will sell out or you want to reserve certain seats then I wouldn’t be in a rush to rebook

        • Mike says:

          14 May14 May 21:46

          Do you have to rebook the flight before it was due to go? Ie my 26th May flight has been cancelled, do I have to rebook before the 26th?

          Also, how true is the 12 months of booking issue? I booked a flight in the 50% Avios sale (on 6/10/20) for March 2021 and called to rebook for 30/10/21 without issue.

    • Sam G says:

      15 May15 May 10:02

      @Mike you don’t have to rebook before departure.

      I’m surprised you managed to call and rebook 12 months post issuance & I wouldn’t rely on this, from what I know/see mentioned here and Flyertalk the phone line is usually pretty strict about this (the website / app apparently often lets you go past) .

• Paul says:

  14 May14 May 18:48

  This is hardly a surprise and one I would describe as prudent rather than aggressive. Any country currently on the red list is not going to Green any time soon.
  It may not be common knowledge but schools have had guidance issued which states no international travel before the 5th September. This is probably more in line with government thinking and any route out of Amber and Red for some nations

  • Char Char says:

    14 May14 May 20:05

    No international travel for who?

    • Anna says:

      14 May14 May 20:43

      It’s no international school trips (which isn’t going to bother many people), not no international travel. How could they possibly enforce that?!

  • Bob says:

    14 May14 May 20:30

    Misleading as that is not what has been said. What has been advised is for teachers not to take international travel in the 2 weeks prior to the commencement of term in September, i.e. don’t book holiday after mid August. Before then, there is no restriction. This has been communicated in the interests of prudence so as to not have teachers potentially trapped overseas in the event of another lockdown / travel embargo late in August.

  • rtflyer says:

    15 May15 May 00:25

    nonsense – perhaps some schools have suggested/asked/made a point that staff need to make sure they’re available to work on the first day of the relevant term. i.e. travel early enough to be able to quarantine if necessary. This was the case in my partner’s school last summer

• Jon says:

  14 May14 May 18:56

  Crikey that was lucky. BA did this to our May St Lucia flights but outbound to MLE is the 13th. Crossing fingers the Maldivian government can get on top of their surge

• Kevin says:

  14 May14 May 20:52

  This afternoon BA emailed to say my return flight to Malta on the 24th was cancelled. My flight to U.K. on Monday appears to be still on however I’ve now cancelled the whole trip home. Another outcome of U.K. government moronic green list.

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