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• xcalx says:

  30 Jan30 January 14:40

  Just to say thanks again to Rob for earlier advice. I got through to BA’s Warrington office after 40 mins on phone and changed the FTV to a full refund of 2 for1, 75k Avios and the full cash amount paid(waived the fee, I didn’t ask). Great guy talked mainly about the storm damages we both suffered yesterday.

• Andy says:

  30 Jan30 January 14:42

  From a phone conversation with a BA agent, my understanding is that all FTVs are being refunded, in order: short haul without 2-4-1, short haul with 2-4-1, long haul without and finally with 2-4-1. Returned 2-4-1 vouchers will have expiry same as current FTVs. If this is correct, the only downside is you won’t be able to extend current vouchers by booking and cancelling for an FTV.

  • Sean Mc says:

    30 Jan30 January 14:50

    but if vouchers have expiry same as FTVs – then they will be extended to Sept 23 surely by definition

  • PGW says:

    30 Jan30 January 14:52

    Thanks for this. I sincerely hope what you have been told is accurate but my faith in what various BA agents have told me in the past remains severely dented.

  • Reeferman says:

    30 Jan30 January 15:45

    Any idea if BA Holidays FTVs will be treated similarly – for cash refunds, that is?
    Has anyone had any experience of using them for flight-only or AVIOS booking – or anything else that doesn’t involve (trying to) make a new BA Holidays booking?

  • The Streets says:

    30 Jan30 January 16:34

    I had a similar chat today whilst claiming money and Avios flight back for a cancelled flight. But the FTV refund with a 241 I got currently being processed is for a long haul flight to Hong Kong

• SharonC says:

  30 Jan30 January 14:47

  Let’s get this straight. You can only do this if you book a flight which travels before August 2022. So don’t do what I did and book something for December and find out you can’t pull this trick.
  I will however be doing it for my earlier expiring booking and 2-4-1 which travels in June, although that is currently staying put just in case travel bans and quarantine comes back due to another Covid variant in South Africa and I have to skip to another country after my holiday there!

  • NorthernLass says:

    30 Jan30 January 16:49

    And yet I’ve just tried this with a booking I made for Jan 23 then changed my mind and have a message that my voucher will be sent within 7 days!

    • NorthernLass says:

      30 Jan30 January 16:50

      I think August is book by, not travel by. Have you actually tried cancelling your December trip?

      • JDB says:

        30 Jan30 January 17:18

        It is complete travel by, not book by for BWC. “For bookings made from 3 March 2020 onwards for journeys that are due to have been completed by 31 August 2022” is copied from the website. BA has not yet indicated a date by which bookings must be made to benefit from this.

• strickers says:

  30 Jan30 January 15:52

  This will be interesting because the 241 I have tied up in an FTV expires in 4 days.

• Mark Rogers says:

  30 Jan30 January 16:35

  We had an FTV (booked companion ticket flights to Osaka for late 2020, when they were cancelled rebooked for New York early 2021, in the end that became an FTV – no efforts made to game the system). Following this article we checked – no emails or other details but the FTV has vanished. The original companion voucher shows as “used” – no new voucher has been issued so far.

  No sign of any card or Avios refunds yet either.

  Will wait a few days for the dust to settle before calling BA.

  • Rob says:

    30 Jan30 January 17:42

    What do you mean “the FTV has vanished”? It was NEVER visible anywhere.

    • Mark Rogers says:

      31 Jan31 January 08:10

      Was it not? Could have sworn I remember seeing it. In that case thanks for picking me up on that!

• Spike Spiegel says:

  30 Jan30 January 17:15

  One of our 4 2-4-1 vouchers expires tomorrow.

  1 – Does it expire at 23:59?

  2 – Am I right in saying I can book a flight leaving tomorrow and then cancel it after 24 hours to then save my voucher or can I instantly cancel it to save the voucher?

  • Rob says:

    30 Jan30 January 17:41

    As long as the flight departs tomorrow, you’ll be fine.

    You will have to cancel before the flight departs – in fact, you need to cancel more than 1 hour before departure.

    There is a page on the BA website which lets you cancel for a Future Travel Voucher – its on the covid page. Don’t cancel via Manage My Booking as that may, within 24 hours, trigger the full refund, which you don’t want.

    Obviously you’ll to hope you can find a redemption flight to somewhere cheap, but that shouldn’t be an issue.

    • Spike Spiegel says:

      30 Jan30 January 17:48

      Thanks Rob – there’s a flight to Paris with reward availability at 5pm-ish. If I book it tonight and cancel it tomorrow within the 24 hours will it trigger a refund rather than give me the option of a FTV? Many thanks

      • Rob says:

        30 Jan30 January 18:45

        If you use the ‘request a voucher’ link on ba.com’s covid pages then hopefully you get a voucher. Using MMB is a bit risky.

• Robert says:

  30 Jan30 January 17:42

  Interesting to read the comments here and a good article around the vouchers which must be coming up to expiry for most people. I think my own circumstances are unique, where I used my voucher in July 20 for a trip in Oct 20, the vouchers life was July19 to July 21, and as my trip is far east my flights have been cancelled by BA and subsequently re-booked multiple times with no need to take an FTV as I intend to make the trip when it eventually flies. My vouchers had two 6 month extensions, as BA keep rebooking my flights. Every confidence they’ll get me where I need to be as soon as the world re-opens.

• namster says:

  30 Jan30 January 20:10

  i have a companion voucher with expiry of 4th April 2022. So i need to put in a flight date before August 2022 and cancel within 7 days of the start of August ?

  • Rob says:

    30 Jan30 January 20:26

    No, you need to book a flight for a date before 4 April, then cancel it (preferably waiting 24 hours first).

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