Reply To: BA to prevent UK callers ringing US

[Garethgerry]

JDB wrote:

@dipesh1990@outlook.com – there are plenty of good reasons for passengers not having the ability to block seats as airline staff can; it’s just so open to abuse. BA does allow open jaw cash bookings online but vouchers are still an overly manual process, so that is something they could fix.

How could BA possibly guarantee the return seats to everyone? The point is that you have signed up to terms that say the outbound and return must be booked at the same time and for those of us who have never booked at T-355, that’s not an issue but to add some guarantee for those who are are already getting the concession of booking the two separately would be unworkable and very unfair.

Agree it would be impossible to guarantee return. Say all 4 guaranteed seats booked at t minus 355, you might think could ask for same guarranteed seats in X days as 4 will be released , but the person booking seats the day before may have booked return seats in X+1 days.

Thus if you book at t minus 355, you must always have a back up plan, a mixture of a flexible return date, or cancel absord the £35 and book cash , or if gold a priority award