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Hiya,
I booked a BAH and paid tbe deposit. A few months later price for a slightly different combination of flights has gone down significantly so it made sense to make a new booking.
I now have 2 BAH with some flights where we are booked in twice. I could now go ahead and cancel the first booking on MMB (and lose the deposit).
The other option is do nothing as this is for Jan 2026 and hope a schedule change means we can cancel the first booking for free.
Is there any risk of the airline checking and noticing we are booked twice? I don’t see anything on the t&c stopping me from doing that and I (hope) BA wouldn’t just go ahead and cancel the second booking.
Any recommendations? Thanks!
I know BAH are very generous in permitting changes if the flight time shifts, but outright cancellations? I’m not so sure, as the terms associated with holiday bookings allows the tour operator to move flights by 12hrs or so before they even have to consider throwing you a few crumbs.
@yonasl – historically BA hasn’t had an issue with duplicate bookings like airlines such as JAL, Qatar or Qantas that are very hot on cancelling dupes. Not sure if BAH affects that. Even BA will look at dupes or other anomalous bookings when flights get very busy.
You won’t find anything in T&Cs about this sort of thing (and there was someone on another thread re 2pax/3pax bookings saying something similar) but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t any policies or rules around the topic that can affect you. Basically, T&Cs can’t be and aren’t exhaustive, so there are implied contract terms as well unpublished rules. It’s obviously a lot tidier and de-risks the situation to cancel the booking you don’t want, vs the small risk that BA could cancel the most recent booking as being duplicate and therefore unwanted.
BAH are very helpful and will often agree to reprice a booked holiday if the price goes down and you contact them and talk to them before doing anything else.
Your only option now is to hope there is a flight cancellation rather than a reschedule on your original booking due to the terms mentioned above.
I’m not aware of BAH cancelling bookings in circumstances like yours.
BAH are very helpful and will often agree to reprice a booked holiday if the price goes down and you contact them and talk to them before doing anything else.
Your only option now is to hope there is a flight cancellation rather than a reschedule on your original booking due to the terms mentioned above.
I’m not aware of BAH cancelling bookings in circumstances like yours.
Oh, didn’t know about this! You live and learn. I will try that next time (tbh I did change the some of the flights etc. so it was a fair amount of change).
@yonasl – historically BA hasn’t had an issue with duplicate bookings like airlines such as JAL, Qatar or Qantas that are very hot on cancelling dupes. Not sure if BAH affects that. Even BA will look at dupes or other anomalous bookings when flights get very busy.
You won’t find anything in T&Cs about this sort of thing (and there was someone on another thread re 2pax/3pax bookings saying something similar) but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t any policies or rules around the topic that can affect you. Basically, T&Cs can’t be and aren’t exhaustive, so there are implied contract terms as well unpublished rules. It’s obviously a lot tidier and de-risks the situation to cancel the booking you don’t want, vs the small risk that BA could cancel the most recent booking as being duplicate and therefore unwanted.
Thanks for this, JAL is involved here and I believe they do check seat assignments (they say that on their website for internal flights) in order to avoid people hoarding them (as I was doing here haha).
Safest thing was to call it a day and lose the £300 from the initial booking (savings were large enough it was worth it making a booking once more).
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