-
I have about £1500 worth of BA vouchers which are due to expire end of August (apparently). Looking to use them for a possible TP run or just a few days away somewhere. Am flexible on days I can travel and am London based. Any suggestions? Thanks
Ha..funny I was thinking of asking a similar question.. i.e. which are the best value first class flights (to use up some extraneous evouchers..!)?
It’s the end of september they currently expire.
How many people will be flying and are you prepared to add more to that amount?
Can we use these vouchers to part pay the taxes and fees when we book with a 241 voucher? Would like to use these vouchers that I have instead of paying cash.
Can we use these vouchers to part pay the taxes and fees when we book with a 241 voucher? Would like to use these vouchers that I have instead of paying cash.
No, the eVouchers cannot be used with Avios bookings.
@ BA Flyer IHG Stayer – It’ll be just me, and happy to add extra to it. Good to know I’ve got Sept as well. Thanks
Can we use these vouchers to part pay the taxes and fees when we book with a 241 voucher? Would like to use these vouchers that I have instead of paying cash.
No, the eVouchers cannot be used with Avios bookings.
Thats not good! Thanks anyway JDB
@ BA Flyer IHG Stayer – It’ll be just me, and happy to add extra to it. Good to know I’ve got Sept as well. Thanks
Yes end of September, and that’s fly by date. In a similar situation, I had recently seen that flights from Italy to I think DEN and SEA in J were cheap, not sure if that’s around but a good idea for a TP run. The issue is there may not be many great deals between now and Sept.
Am I correct in the understanding that the only flights BA markets ( with a couple of 5th freedom exceptions) either start, finish or connect through the UK? Sorry if thats a stupid question.
Am I correct in the understanding that the only flights BA markets ( with a couple of 5th freedom exceptions) either start, finish or connect through the UK? Sorry if thats a stupid question.
I’ve no personal experience of this, but I know people use Avios to book internal flights in Japan and the USA. That suggests you can purchase cash tickets for these as well. Pay around on BA.com and see what comes up.
Am I correct in the understanding that the only flights BA markets ( with a couple of 5th freedom exceptions) either start, finish or connect through the UK? Sorry if thats a stupid question.
Yes that’s correct.
BA can for example sell avios tickets for stand-alone US domestics but can only sell cash fares when connecting off or are part of an overall TATL booking which can include say AMS-LON-USA.
I found Oslo to Singapore for £1900… That’ll do. 🙂
I found Oslo to Singapore for £1900… That’ll do. 🙂
With Finnair originating in Oslo and sold via BA.com (for the purpose of using your eVoucher)?
Or does it originate in LON, with the first leg on BA?
It’s BA all the way going OSL- LHR- SIN.m
It’s BA all the way going OSL- LHR- SIN.m
Ah, got you, that’s not too bad a price, is the return to Oslo, or will you ‘hop off’ at LON?
They are selling on eBay for circa 80% of face value. Including some very high value vouchers (high hundreds low thousands).
I’ve got I think only one left with £100 on it, if I’ve not spent it by month end I’ll offload it there. I’ve got a possible trip to Spain where it might be handy.
Obviously there is potential for issues with refunds if things get cancelled, but I’m sure that’s manageable in most cases. Similarly there’s risk of outright fraud and dishonesty I guess – using a voucher then claiming it didn’t work and attempting to claw back. Do you get evidence of the transaction after it’s been made? Can you link that to the buyer?
I’d rather get the cash in the bank now than book with BA if BA were the sub-optimal choice in terms of pricing, destination or timing, not withstanding the risk of getting fleeced.
I have to say I’m tempted by this @memesweeper. I had fully intended to purchase a couple of short weekend breaks travelling in Y shorthaul with BA Holidays, to use up the vouchers. But if BA Holidays now refuses to credit these vouchers, treating them differently from other vouchers, then as I have far too many other cancelled flights from covid to use, I have no reason to waste my vouchers on a flight-only booking with BA.
My vouchers did come from the 2x avios promo and BA said in their terms that the purchase was not refundable. Now BA’s changed their mind and wants to reverse the original purchase back to avios if someone wants to use their evouchers from flights, for a BA Holiday. In between, BA has devalued the value of avios for flights, and has devalued the value of avios for the backup conversion route of Nectar, both very significantly.
I can certainly buy a package holiday from a few places if I get only 80% back on the vouchers I took from BA, getting pretty much the same value. Plus the 80% cash will go further as I’ll then book for October-November as I won’t be tied to flying on the vouchers by September latest anymore.
If anyone else has thoughts on this I’d be interested as now this is turning out so bad, I’d like to get shot of my BA vouchers quick.
In same boat as you LL but really don’t want to offload them for less than their value. Ideally want to get some decent tier points post June 8th out of them. However, limited for time and every flight seems to cost 3x what it should. If they’d have let these vouchers be used to pay taxes/fees on avios bookings or be used for holidays I’d be laughing. Or extend the use by date to Dec. 😞 I stupidly thought until earlier this year that Sept 30th was the ‘book by’ date too which hasn’t helped.
yeah I don’t think BA is playing fair here. We relieved BA of a balance sheet liability for avios by converting them for flights at a cash value. BA said that transformation was irreversible.
Now they want to change that back (having devalued the medium they want to change it back to, meanwhile). Not just to the cash value they’d said we’d be stuck with, but to the avios they said we couldn’t have back. And they were up to now taking these vouchers for BA Holidays, and now they’re not. And it wasn’t made clear upfront that they would refuse evouchers for co-pays alongside avios, either.
Now BA is feeling a bit better, after massive price increases and avios devaluation, they are withdrawing and restricting ie rewriting the rules (written or practice).
Leaves a bad taste.
Do we know if it is just the outbound that needs to be taken by end Sept? Or return as well.
Do we know if it is just the outbound that needs to be taken by end Sept? Or return as well.
It’s the whole journey that must be completed by 30 Sep.
@LadyLondon – people contorted the rules making fictitious bookings to play the 2p trick and evidently some now ‘stuck’ with vouchers unwisely did so without any exit plan. BA has now simply unpicked those vouchers to reflect the true underlying transaction. Alternatively, there is the radical solution of using the eVouchers as intended, – for booking flights.
The eVouchers were never usable for Avios co-payment so that’s incorrect.
The 2p trick always looked a bit risky (inevitably rising fares) as well as not exactly in the spirit of things, so anyone now hoist by their own petard has no genuine complaint.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
Popular articles this week:
