BA companion voucher – multi city

[adamcab]

I have already booked using BAPP companion voucher, LHR – GIG (Rio de janeiro)

I need to book by return, but I need to go to straight to Mumbai, so I could go Rio – London, then straight on to Mumbai. Can I do this using one voucher?

I’ve noticed that booking Rio- Mumbai on one booking have significantly lower tax!

Any help appreciated!

[NorthernLass]

I think this return leg is going to be far too long for the open jaw rules. If you’d started in Mumbai originally you might just get away with it.

[zapato1060]

LHR GIG 219° (SW) 218° (SW) 5,734 mi
BOM LHR 319° (NW) 319° (NW) 4,487 mi
BOM GIG 254° (W) 254° (W) 8,342 mi

Distance between BOM-GIG has to be lower than lhr-gig or bom-lhr, as above it’s way over

Check gcmapper for distances and see BA destinations on flightconnections for open jaw possibilities

[JDB]

zapato1060 wrote:

LHR GIG 219° (SW) 218° (SW) 5,734 mi
BOM LHR 319° (NW) 319° (NW) 4,487 mi
BOM GIG 254° (W) 254° (W) 8,342 mi

Distance between BOM-GIG has to be lower than lhr-gig or bom-lhr, as above it’s way over

Check gcmapper for distances and see BA destinations on flightconnections for open jaw possibilities

In this example, the open jaw or surface/ARNK sector isn’t BOM-GIG (which is flown, in the other direction), but LON-BOM. The routing the OP has said he wants is LHR-GIG-X/LHR-BOM.

[BA Flyer IHG Stayer]

I don’t see how this is an open jaw. There is no non flight sector involved that @adamcab is going to undertake.

The routing desired is LHR-GIG-LHR-BOM with LHR-GIG already booked.

If he wanted say LHR-GIG then BOM-LHR that would be an open jaw albeit a non compliant one. But he doesn’t want that.

The issue is can the CV be used to end the trip in BOM and not LHR.

I don’t know the answer to that (but my gut feeling is no) so since he has to call to book the GIG-LHR flight anyway to get the 50% avios back he should just ask the agent.

[JDB]

@BA Flyer IHG Stayer – for the purposes of the open jaw rule, the open jaw is between BOM and LON as there no stopover in London. I don’t know whether routing via LON is within the MPM for GIG-BOM and while it can (upon payment) be exceeded on a cash ticket, I’m not sure how BA treats it on reward tickets that force a routing via London. I too am sceptical as to whether BA will allow it and because it’s all a bit complicated I think they do disallow routings that should technically be allowed per IATA rules.

[AJA]

My gut instinct is it would be simpler to just book GIG-LHR with the return portion of the companion voucher and a separate ticket LHR-BOM-LHR. How were you planning to get back to London from Mumbai?

I think the open jaw rule does not allow a transit in your original departure city as that is effectively a return flight at that point even though you’re not stopping there.

The other issue if I’m wrong and you can book it is that you need Avios availability on both sectors GIG-LHR & LHR-BOM.

Worth a call in my view – they can only say no

[adamcab]

The final leg of the journey would be HKG-LHR

I would like to get the GIG-BOM as one booking as it’s lower tax, than having a separate booking into and out of LHR.

Could I do
GIG-BOM and then HKG – LHR as an open jaw on one voucher?

Then use a separate voucher for the outbound LHR-GIG?

[NorthernLass]

It’s posted above how to work this out!