FTV – some help please

[DonLee]

I never request FTV before so some beginner’s questions.

I have a booking with Qatar using avios, do I get FTV if cancel and will there be any charges for partner airline booking?

My current booking contains 300k avios + £1800, if I convert that into FTV to pay my new booking which will cost 360k avios + £710. what will happen to the cash element?

Thanks

[Rob]

You’d get another FTV for that change.

Frankly, given the money involved, I would ring BA, pay the £35 each to cancel and get the cash and Avios back in your acccount. With no 241 to worry about it seems the easiest route.

[tiriavpo]

Rob Burgess wrote:

You’d get another FTV for that change.

I’m not sure that is the case. Has anyone actually had this happen?

For an e-voucher, if you use less than the full value, you definitely get another e-voucher for the difference. Not sure how they would create a new FTV for a part-used FTV value.

When I used a 241 FTV, with a value of approx 180k avios and over £1k fees, to re-book short haul trip, we got 140k avios and £1k refunded.

Since you would have to call for proper cancellation/refund, you could ask about the FTV route and what would happen if you were to subsequently re-book something cheaper.

[SteveJ]

Agree with @tiriavpo my experience is for FTVs you get the balance of cash and Avios refunded back to you