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Normally, I have used my voucher to book a return. This time I would like the journey to start in Australia (I already have a QR booking to Sydney) but realised my voucher will expire in the summer and Sydney availability is not there for my dates.
How can I use it to get back to the UK over two flighs covered by the voucher? Can it be two single legs in any directions like Sydney to Singapore then Kuala Lumpur to London. I know the distance rule, but not about direction of travel. Could someone advise please?
I don’t think it works like that – you could use it for SYD-SIN-LHR or SIN-LHR or KUL-LHR, but not a route where there wouldn’t normally be a stopover option.
I think SYD-SIN might breach the open jaw rules, but if there’s no availability you’d struggle doing that anyway.
Thanks Northern Lass. So I can only book it for a one way? I’m basically only using it for a return journey as my outbound is already booked. Can it be that I find a one way from say SIN or KUL to London and book the outbound of my next holiday so LON to some other journey? If yes, is there a maximum time limit between flying outbound and inbound?
You can use it for a return trip, as long as it complies with the open jaw rules and you fly the inbound within 12 months of the outbound. It doesn’t matter if the voucher expires between the two sectors.
Your problem is finding a suitable open jaw routing. I don’t know but I think the following routing would work Outbound LHR-SIN or LHR-KUL before voucher expires and then inbound SYD-LHR for the dates you want. Aside from the availability issue the open jaw sector (SIN-SYD or KUL-SYD) needs to be shorter than both of the flights which I think is the case. The issue with flying to SIN is that you also fly via SIN on the way to SYD but as BA11 only goes to SIN I think that taking BA16 from SYD to LHR I think that would be a valid open jaw.
@S879 already has the outbound booked to SYD, so another trip from LHR probably isn’t feasible within the timescales.
The voucher could be used to return from SYD/XXX and then the “other half” used on a future trip.
But they can’t book the SYD-LHR flight as a one-way or even as the outbound part of a return as it is after the 2-4-1 expires so they’ll need to book an outbound flight to somewhere in order to book the SYD-LHR flight they want.
Edit. I think I may have misunderstood that the voucher will have expired before the dates they require.
It’s slightly confusing because OP has not stated outbound travel date. But yes, if the voucher expires before any booking can be flown, it’s no-go.
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