Two person Avios booking — cost to remove one traveller

[memesweeper]

Hi

I have a European RFS flight with two travellers on it. One cannot travel. I’ve read this

https://www.headforpoints.com/2021/04/01/what-does-it-cost-to-cancel-an-avios-redemption-flight-2/

and cannot see a mention of costs to cancel one person out of a booking. Is it even possible?

[BA Flyer IHG Stayer]

Yes it’s possible. You need to phone and ask for the PNR to be split and then cancel the unwanted ticket.

I think the £35 fee applies.

[Froggee]

I have done this and was not charged but did have a lovely conversation with the agent and it was a gold priority reward where I believe cancellations are free and this perhaps carried over to changes also.

As above, you need to call and ask for the PNR to be split. It’s unclear to me whether this should be charged as it is a “change” but cannot be done online. My best guess is it will be free, £15 or £30!

Once you’ve done this then you have two PNRs and you should hopefully be able to avail yourself of the 50p per leg online cancellation bug for short haul RFS flights.

[memesweeper]

BA Flyer IHG Stayer wrote:

Yes it’s possible. You need to phone and ask for the PNR to be split and then cancel the unwanted ticket.

I think the £35 fee applies.

Perfect — I’ve paid the £35 each so that’s a sunk cost anyway.

[SteveJ]

Are reward seats still available? Given that all but £1pp is being refunded these days on rewards flights might be better off booking the single traveller again and cancelling the original booking for a full (-£2) refund.

[memesweeper]

SteveJ wrote:

Are reward seats still available? Given that all but £1pp is being refunded these days on rewards flights might be better off booking the single traveller again and cancelling the original booking for a full (-£2) refund.

It’s an “Avios only” flight. A full cancellation of the booking and rapid rebooking should work ok. Ironically i wasnt sure about two other travellers so put them on their own PNR and low-and-behold the one I had no doubt about cant make it.

The refund goes into a now-dissolved household account, so thanks to 18+ kids I’m “loosing” the Avios, and their individual pots gain. I’ll just separate and cancel the one traveller I think.