Reply To: Qatar Airways Japan flight change

[Scotty665]

JDB wrote:

Scotty665 wrote:

bomba wrote:

I booked on Qatar for the reason of ease in case something happens, how much was the taxes on BA’s site? I’m guessing you also did LHR – DOH – HND, I also am still unable to login into QR, anyone else facing this problem?

Hey – So my outbound is Aberdeen – LHR – HND on BA. The return leg on a separate booking was HND – DOH – Edinburgh. The return leg with Qatar was £50.50 in taxes per person booked on the BA site. It was more on the Qatar site as I remember checking both.

I spoke to BA this morning and they have moved me to NRT – DOH -EDI now and it is in R class instead of U (Reward) I am hoping ill actually maybe now earn some Avios out of this! One word of warning if you don’t hold BA Status, The free seat selection doesn’t apply on R class that BA rebook you on. I have raised a complaint on this with them as the agent didn’t actually tell me this and that he was moving me to R class. I doubt they will do anything as I am waiting 3 months for a refund in Avios for a previous downgrade.

Isn’t the trade off that if you stay booked in ‘R’ you might get some Avios and TP whereas if you were put back in ‘U’ you won’t? That could be a fairly high price to pay for seat selection. BA has followed its (and QR’s) guidelines for rerouting by putting you in the lowest available booking class. BA also cannot force open ‘U’ reward space on QR.

Hi @JBD

My frustration from yesterday has now calmed down slightly 🙂

I have checked the QR calculator and looks like I’ll earn the following avios in R class
NRT – DOH – 6,433
DOH – EDI – 4,308

Seat selection will now cost me £313 for both flights for 2 folk.

So probably will be getting 21,000 ish avios between 2 people but having to pay £313 for seats.

The seats is a big deal for me as it is an 11.5 and 7.5 hours flight and previously had the double QSuite reserved (I know the plane equipment isn’t guaranteed)

Do you think I just suck it up or is there a case here BA really should have told me what fare class they were booking me into?

Ps they are not budging and basically saying tough luck.

Also would like to apologise if my post yesterday sounded a bit like a moan at you…I was still calming down from speaking to the BA agent 🙂