Here’s the full list of Heathrow, Gatwick and London City cancellations for July

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• Mark says:

  7 Jul7 July 07:31

  Received a text at 20:45 last night that my 06:55 LCY-GLA this morning has been cancelled.
  Planning to be up and down to Glasgow for a day, they couldn’t book me on a flight until around 4pm so pointless. 9 hrs notice – shocking. Would any of the EU rules on compensation kick in ?

  • insider says:

    7 Jul7 July 07:55

    yes, you should be eligible for EU261

  • SH says:

    7 Jul7 July 10:54

    This is referred to in EC261 as a ‘trip in vain’ – you are entitled to refund and compensation.

• supergraeme says:

  7 Jul7 July 07:39

  I appreciate that we don’t have data for August yet, but do we think that BA will have removed the August flights they plan to cancel from sale yet? What James K has said suggests so.

• pbcold says:

  7 Jul7 July 07:46

  My word this is a helpful article, thank you. LHR to BCN on July 31st is pretty crucial for us in terms of making the Virgin Cruise. Looks ok at the moment…..

  • michael lockhart says:

    7 Jul7 July 07:49

    I’ve just received an email advising that Iberia will now be handling the BA LHR – BCN flight in September

  • IanT says:

    7 Jul7 July 07:52

    You could book an alternative as a plan b.

    We’ve done that a few times in the past when it’s essential to catch a ship’s departure.

    • WaynedP says:

      7 Jul7 July 08:06

      Also have Plan A being to arrive a day early with hotel overnight if you can tag an extra day on at the front.

      Nice way to start a cruise, takes pressure off and gives wriggle room for travel hiccups.

      • Grimz says:

        7 Jul7 July 13:19

        I have flights booked ABZ-LHR-BCN (reward flights) on the same day as picking up the ship in September. What would be best plan as backup which can be cancelled? Now thinking this cruise is not worth the hassle. Does insurance cover 95k Virgin points?

        • supergraeme says:

          7 Jul7 July 13:52

          I wouldn’t have thought so as this would be you choosing not to go.

• Keeza says:

  7 Jul7 July 08:39

  Work trips from ABZ to LON are becoming increasingly difficult. Very few flights have availability at useful times (essentially none to LHR) and many of the sleeper services are full.
  Options are to hope that easyJet doesn’t cancel the morning LGW flight last minute (where availability exists) or drive to DND very early in the morning and change onto the LM flight into LCY.

• Mr. AC says:

  7 Jul7 July 09:36

  I recently had a return flight to London cancelled 4 hours before departure, managed to get rebooked for next day. Submitted a claim for hotel and food. Does anyone know how long it takes these days to get paid?

  • meta says:

    7 Jul7 July 09:49

    What was the reason for cancellation?

    • Mr. AC says:

      7 Jul7 July 10:35

      It was on Thursday last week when Heathrow asked BA to cancel a bunch of flights because they were overwhelmed.

  • AJA says:

    7 Jul7 July 10:23

    Simple claims seem to be taking at least 10 days to be considered and then 2 weeks from acceptance to seeing cash in the bank. Anything else you can wait months.

• Andrew says:

  7 Jul7 July 11:52

  Heathrow really is in a mess generally at the moment – I flew out of T3 on Tuesday afternoon with Virgin and had a 45 minute wait to get through security in the Upper Class Wing – the queue was all the way out to the drive thru doors – really ate into my Clubhouse time. Virgin staff were doing all they could to speed things along, but with very few LHR security staff it was very slow moving.

  • Gordon says:

    7 Jul7 July 15:41

    When we flew to SIN 4 weeks ago I purposely arrived extra early after reading about the issues they were having to prevent just that Sanrio not getting much time to relax in the BA lounge at T5, But luckily we were the only ones apart from 2 other couples at Business check for the night flight so straight through in plenty of time, But it’s hit and miss so you just have to make the call to go early or not.

• Karen says:

  7 Jul7 July 12:19

  Thanks for info in this article I’ve just checked and found out that our flight from BRU-LHR on Friday 22/7/22 has been cancelled but not yet received an email from BA although it’s showing as cancelled in MMB. This flight is for an overnight connection to LHR-MIA on Saturday 23/7/22. The only flight left scheduled from BRU to LHR with BA is at 07.05 rather than any of the other flights we had originally booked (evening/afternoon/late morning all cancelled along the way). This would mean we would be in LHR over 24 hours before our long haul sector. What are my options? I asked previously if they would allow us to drop the BRU-LHR leg or change to another airport via ‘change of gateway’ but as it’s a BAH booking they said no! Not sure that they would allow us to bring forward the LHR-MIA leg now as we’ve accepted the change on that one from BA to AA during the last round of cancellations but how does it work that they are allowed to offer over 24 hour layover at their convenience without additional APD etc ?

  • SamG says:

    7 Jul7 July 12:51

    You could ask for another European gateway – not familiar with AA Euro routes but do they offer Paris – Miami direct ?

    Otherwise they should allow you to reschedule the trip to get the stopover you want even if that means amending the LHR-MIA leg

    • Karen says:

      7 Jul7 July 13:19

      Thanks for the reply. They are adamant that I have to take the 07.05 flight BRU-LHR which gives me over 24 hours layover in LHR.

    • Karen says:

      7 Jul7 July 16:26

      Thanks SamG, BAH are adamant that I have to accept the 07.05 or cancel. I’ve told them no way do I want to cancel as I have a cruise booked and hotels etc. I only had the heads up on here that my flight was cancelled and have since received an email that says they will get in touch with me and the email offers no alternative unlike when I’ve received previous cancellations. I’m awaiting a call that I’m pretty sure will not materialise! Not sure what to do as the cancellation email says they will be in touch rather than we wait for ages on the phone again.

• Colin Thames says:

  7 Jul7 July 12:32

  Flying in September to Corfu from EDI via LHR, on Avios redemptions. If any of our flights get cancelled any thoughts as to whether we can request seats on another flight with an Avios booking?

  • StanTheMan says:

    7 Jul7 July 12:44

    Whether you pay cash, cheque, avios or magic beans – your rights are the same.

    • Mike says:

      7 Jul7 July 13:48

      Previously the call centre suggested a refund of the avios then to look out for avios availability on another flight

      • Colin Thames says:

        7 Jul7 July 13:57

        Mike, that’s a bit disturbing. Have they changed that?

      • Lady London says:

        8 Jul8 July 01:58

        No. You have the same rights paying avios for your flight as someone who paid £100,000 for their ticket.

        As soon as you take a refund of avios or cash the airline loves it as the moment you do that they are off the hook to get you there, and off the hook for any extra transport costs, hotel, and meals.

        In the coming months be very very wary of allowing any airline to refund you – don’t take even part. If an airline cancels your flight , even if there is a suggeated replacement showing in MMB you don’t have to confim it. You can think about your options and do nothing with it till you have decided, even leaving it beyond the date of the cancelled flight.

        If I’m not taking a replacement flight showing in MMB I would make some effort to let the airline know so they can sell that seat, though, as a courtesy

    • Colin Thames says:

      7 Jul7 July 13:56

      Thanks Stan
      So that means BA can transfer us to seats on other flights regardless of whether they had Avios seats available? (I seem to remember some article Rob did mentioning that but no idea when or what the title was).
      Rob, how about some articles about using magic beans? 😉

      • StanTheMan says:

        7 Jul7 July 14:31

        The call centre and chat definitely push for you to just take a refund, like they are doing you a favour. But BA has an obligation to put you on another flight.

      • Lady London says:

        8 Jul8 July 02:06

        If they cancelled your flight they cannot legally insisy on an avios seat being availsble on another flight to rebook you into.

        Any seat available in same cabin you have a right to regsrdless of its booking class(a subset of cabin class) without extra chsrge regardleas of its selling price.

        The way to check this is just to testrun a new booking online. BA systems seem to be set up incorrectly in that to replace a cancelled flight, ig the sest was an avios booking the system will look for only avios seats.

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