Adding personal return to one way corporate flight?

[M]

Hi All!

My employer will book a one way business class flight for me from LHR to HKG (costs around 4k).

It just so happens that I am planning a personal trip in the other direction a couple months later (so HKG – LHR and then again LHR – HKG).

Once I have my one way corporate ticket booked, is there any chance I could amend the booking with BA directly to add a return leg (which means I could get a return business class flight for around 1k personal expense, rather than the usual 4k)?

Thanks,
M

[AndrewT]

In principle any booking can be changed, and a return added to a one-way, subject to applicable change fees. However you would have to do it through the same channel as the original booking, e.g. if your employer uses a corporate travel agent any changes would also have to go through them.

It may be more about your employer policy than BA.

[SamG]

One likely problem is the 4k one way will likely be flexible and a 5k return will have tighter restrictions. If the outbound needs changing for a business reason or the trip is cancelled then you could end up shouldering the change fees / chunky fare difference etc. For this reason an employer likely will not want to create this kind of potential issue especially where there is a corporate TA involved