British Airways drops Bangkok and other Asia routes for the Winter

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• PL says:

  9 Apr9 April 04:32

  We have a 2 for 1 booking to BKK next January. Will we be rerouted on Qatar business or Finn air?

  • Michele Baldrick says:

    9 Apr9 April 09:07

    I am also booked Janaury 2023 and i have 2 for 1 and Avois booking. – so very interested to see what is offered.

  • Rhys says:

    9 Apr9 April 09:24

    They re-routed me on Qatar for my trip last month so I imagine that will stay the same

    • Liviu says:

      12 Apr12 April 02:40

      Did you had seats with companion voucher?

• Graeme says:

  9 Apr9 April 05:17

  Living in Bangkok, fortunately prefer QR over BA for so many reasons…

• Dawn says:

  9 Apr9 April 05:35

  I”m still waiting for my double tier points to be credited from last November for several flights. Despite emailing I don’t seem to be getting anywhere. What is the best email address to chase this please?

• Paul E says:

  9 Apr9 April 06:03

  Same. I’m in Cambodia and would much rather fly QR than BA to BKK. I have an 2for1 reward booking and I’m wondering how that will be treated as far as transferring to QR? Favourably I hope…

  • Paul Hickey says:

    9 Apr9 April 06:28

    I’m in the same boat. Just woke up to this news and confirmation of my hotel booking lol. Hope someone can inform us of how this will work given reward 2-4-1 flights. . Fingers crossed for Qatar!

  • NigelthePensioner says:

    9 Apr9 April 06:31

    BA AmEx 2 for 1’s have to be used by flying inside a BA painted plane, not a code share or other spuriously connected flight. Furthermore, it must be a flight starting and finishing in the UK. Well those were the rules for the “legacy” 2 4 1’s…..I think something may have altered with new “new” vouchers (issued since Sept 21) but I think that was the route option rather than the hardware.

    • BuildBackBetter says:

      9 Apr9 April 06:44

      Those rules are for booking tickets. But if BA cancels a flight, redemption passengers have same rights to be booked on other metal.

      • Paul Hickey says:

        9 Apr9 April 06:49

        That’s seeming good news. What a coup if we get booked on Qatar. Wonder if they’ll consider us changing from BKK to HKT (Phuket) as that’s where we wanted to end up anyway, and Qatar do fly there.

        • Thywillbedone says:

          9 Apr9 April 07:05

          Only if you get Q-suite …Qatar chop and change equipment regularly and it may not favour certain routes. We had booked Q-suite to BKK last year only to be ‘downgraded’ close to the time

        • Numpty says:

          9 Apr9 April 08:08

          Yes a small route change like that is possible, explain the reason why. But also check what aircraft QR use on the route to see if ur happy with it.

      • Numpty says:

        9 Apr9 April 08:03

        Can confirm this. My KL 241 booked in Avios sale rebooked with QR, and as an R fare class – might get some tier points out of it (but might not!). BA did repeatedly offer a refund which was repeatedly refused.

        • Paul Hickey says:

          9 Apr9 April 08:23

          Good intel. Thanks.
          I had a straight forward 2-4-1 avios flight cancelled and auto rebooked on BA earlier this year. For whatever reason the status of the return flight was changed form a points booking to a regular booking and they kindly credited me the points! £200 for passing go so to speak!

        • Lee says:

          9 Apr9 April 10:44

          Thanks for the data point. My summer Finnair flight has been cancelled and rebooked to Qatar by BA. Fare Class shows I, I guess I could earn some miles with that now.

• Nicola Walton says:

  9 Apr9 April 06:25

  Unbelievable, we need to book into Bangkok and return from Hong Kong next January for a cruise we have booked and paid for. BA have £1600 of our money for flights cancelled in 2020 lockdown!

  • BuildBackBetter says:

    9 Apr9 April 06:46

    People planning trips to hongkong, with everything going on there, is what is unbelievable.

    • qrfan says:

      9 Apr9 April 07:37

      Give over. Cruise back from HK in 8 months time is hardly “unbelieveable”. @NicolaWalton treat yourself to a Qatar or Cathay flight booked via BA- you’ll be far better off experience wise anyway and I’m pretty sure BA will let you use your vouchers for code-shares booked via them?

      • Nicola Walton says:

        9 Apr9 April 07:41

        Just checked and we can still get direct flight back and just one one change on way out so not too bad.

    • Nicola Walton says:

      9 Apr9 April 07:43

      This is a trip that keeps getting moved, no doubt it will again.

  • Jill (Kinkell) says:

    9 Apr9 April 07:23

    A lot of the cruise lines cancelled their Far East sailings for earlier this year due to restrictions/ ban in HK and China. It may well be the same for next year given the stance the HK and Chinese are currently adopting over Covid. We got everything returned/refunded from a cancelled January cruise.

  • Harry T says:

    9 Apr9 April 08:17

    Sorry to hear about your continued difficulties. To be honest, I just wouldn’t bother booking any travel that touches China or Hong Kong for a few years.

    • meta says:

      9 Apr9 April 08:32

      China or Hong Kong will be the last country in the world to open up and that will happen only until the vast majority of the world has been vaccinated and the cases globally have dropped significantly. Even if they do open up earlier, I wouldn’t go for at given that they can just re-impose a lockdown for months and stop the flights. You could be stuck.

      • meta says:

        9 Apr9 April 08:32

        *will not happen

  • Michele Baldrick says:

    9 Apr9 April 09:13

    Same – i too am booked on a cruise out of Bangkok Jan 2023 to HK. There are 5 of us. Lets see what happens.

• NigelthePensioner says:

  9 Apr9 April 06:31

  Im not sure how “demand picks up” for non-existent flights?!!

  • Crafty says:

    9 Apr9 April 07:50

    Demand for travelling to Bangkok… I don’t think this is very difficult to work out, Nigel.

• Martin Clarke says:

  9 Apr9 April 06:41

  We are travelling in Nov/Dec, on a 241 and hope that Qatar is the option too.

• DMW says:

  9 Apr9 April 06:53

  Arrived at T5 half hour ago. Quiet. Nothing like the news reports – yet. Walked straight up to a free spot at security in First Wing.

  • Comrade Chag says:

    9 Apr9 April 11:52

    Nice try, BA marketing!

  • James Harper says:

    9 Apr9 April 15:32

    You must be the one!

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