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The time when a cancellation turns into a positive situation.
About a month ago Booked a short hall 2-4-1 reward flight for dates that were attracting high cash price due to an event that’s on. At the time the only reward flight for the date we wanted didn’t land until 9pm with 4 earlier flights being cash only.
Today they cancelled and moved our flight so we wound now arrive at 10pm frustrating but thought “oh well” then realised that this now opened up all the flights for that day/route to us to move our reward flight to. Now arrive 4pm. Let’s hope nothing else changes but it’s 6 months away so we will see.
I find often there’s positives in cancellations and schedule changes. Not always of course, but my first reaction is usually how can I exploit this 😏
Where can you find the most cancelled BA routes?
No idea, but anything between MAN and LHR has a good chance!
That reminds me of a couple of years ago when we were all booking the cheapest EJ flights we could find knowing that they were going to be cancelled – I ended up paying £40 pp for seats to Bilbao which I then “traded in” for £200 pp half term seats to Malaga when the inevitable cancellations arrived!
My best was last summer. A rolled over CDG LHR HKG DPS return in J from covid times. I had rolled it forward a year after first lock down and then a further year providing return occurred with the year. I then bagged 2 x Avios upgrades to F. BA then cancelled HKG for summer 23 and voila rebooked into F on QR to DOH and onward to DPS in J.
Day of flight and better half and I were alone on the A380 in F. It was outstanding.
Returned home to find it had all been commercial F so more tier points than I could have poked a stick at plus shed loads of Avios as the BA codeshares had been booked. 2 x gold cards then arrived as the lowers threshold easy achieved with some domestic and EU flying.
Will never see the likes again especially the £1400 fare!Will throw my contribution into the ring. All very complicated but in April 2022 did a family trip to Florida. Had to split up to get out there owing to the kids’ term dates & sporting commitments. Was booked as a BA Holiday, wife and daughter were AA (BA code) LHR-ORD-MCO. PE on the long haul and MCE on the connection.
Then the codeshares all got pulled from the timetable. I rang BAH who agreed to rebook them on the last two seats available in PE on the nonstop LHR-MCO that day for no additional fee. As it was Easter, things were filling up. Now because it had gone from AA metal to BA metal they should have lost the ability to assign seats, but the agent had rebooked them in W class, so that was all sorted with a pair at the side locked in. They got to Heathrow and apparently the desk agent said “sorry we’ve had to move your seats”. Wife emailed me from the AMEX lounge, transpired they had been bumped up to Club Suites so they scuttled off to the Cathay lounge for a fill of dumplings & noodles.
Of course, despite me having flown a lot more than either of them, BA have never seen fit to upgrade me!
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