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This is today’s chat thread.
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Morning from a very sunny central Scotland!
The Amex LNER offer has reappeared after a short hiatus. I have 10% off until 8 August on both my cards.
Not quite as good as previous rates but runs for three months.
Morning from a very sunny central Scotland!
The Amex LNER offer has reappeared after a short hiatus. I have 10% off until 8 August on both my cards.
Not quite as good as previous rates but runs for three months.
Noticed this earlier on my BAPP card.
Random question re BA Companion voucher – if I do an Avios booking outbound for 3 people including the Companion Voucher, and subsequently inbound for only 2 people, would I be able to call up to merge the two bookings (thus receiving a rebate of half the inbound Avios by attaching the Companion Voucher) or would this be impossible given the mismatch in the number of people on the booking?
Edit: I appreciate i could split the outbound booking, but this is for a popular route so will miss out if need to make 2 bookings
@jsto – for booking three pax and using a CV, none of the seats can come from the ‘extra’ availability but that shouldn’t be an issue if booking at T-355. For the return with 2 pax, that’s more complicated! Obviously the returning passengers must include the voucher holder plus the second person must be the one for which the voucher was applied on the outbound. I’m not sure, if booking online for three, how one ascribes the voucher to a specific traveller.
When you call to ask for the 50% Avios refund, the two bookings don’t ever get merged, even if the passengers were the same in both directions. There’s simply a loose linking and application of the voucher to both bookings triggering the refund.
In principle/theory your preferred option might be possible, but the policy around the 50% refund is not written down anywhere so you are reliant on an agent who is both willing and capable, eg to split the original booking and then apply the voucher for your refund. This is possibly something that could be done between the outbound booking date and when you book the return making a simpler discussion for the refund when that comes round. You can just tell them the third person has a different schedule but you are planning to add a return.
Thanks @jdb that’s helpful. Just figuring out my options really – as a family of 5 with one BA Companion voucher and one Barclays Upgrade voucher, which makes things a bit tricky!
@jsto, I have done this the other way – had 2 pax outbound and 3 inbound. When I spoke to BA to get the 50% avios refunded on the inbound, the agent was initially a bit reluctant but I pointed out that the Ts & Cs don’t forbid this and they then refunded the avios.
As with everything BA, though, it’ll probably depend on the agent you get!
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