Reply To: 2-4-1 cabin downgrade – overbooked flight

[Lady London]

Nice one, AJA. Thank you for the text it’s precise and will let BA know the 241 passengers they picked on to offload, mean business.

Weeble and CherylD go for it. Don’t worry about BA likely to try their usual stonewalling tactics – your claim is open and shut you will win eventually – though it might take CEDR/MCOL, CEDR should be sufficient and cheaper.

For other cases there are some reported here, winners don’t always report but enough have been reported. HfP is not well indexed internally so an external Google search including site: headforpoints.com should find your search string. Alternatively flyertalk site is well indexed and you’ll find lots of cases there.

Please report back on your success – look at your fare confirmation and you only have to take off official government and very small airport charges then you claim 75% of the remaining figure for that leg. In particular, YQ money also counts as fare money. You could also consider claiming 1.6p per avios back instead for your 75% due, if you don’t have a use for the avios as that’s BA’s publicly published rack rate for selling them.

Discovering you’d been picked due to your loyalty, to be the ones downgraded to the non-flat bed experience on that long flight must have been a great disappointment. So don’t hesitate to get the full 75% back from BA. Good luck.