A couple of days ago I posted about the amazing first class fare which British Airways filed between Dubai and Austin. British Airways essentially left off a zero on the cost of their full fare first class ticket price. Rather than charging $8,577+ one-way, they were charging $857+ one-way. The best part were the flexible…
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Thank god for the 5 day hold on AA awards 😀
I called to adjust my routing with BA yesterday for this fare and they said I could do so for free with the fare I had. They looked over the ticket and everything and never mentioned it not being confirmed. Treating it like every other ticket. So far at least...
Surely the fact that others have flown it and it has been around for a couple of months means BA is much more likely to honor these bookings?
My guess: no official announcement will be made but bookings that are indirect or made on partner airlines will get an email that says "good news, we've re-accomodated you on a more direct routing!" and re-route people on all BA metal to DFW/ORD/JFK and then AA direct to AUS. Maybe original routing credit will be offered with enough crowing, but they'd much rather pay for that than to pay partner airlines thousands of dollars in losses.
"left off a zero"
Technically, the decimal was in the wrong spot, once spot too far to the left.
I have already booked trip to Barcelona for my wife and kid one way then they fly to Dubai for 2 days then will have the return leg booked on this SPECIAL. Call you what you want but for me it was just a good price. I have been charged and paid for the ticket. Expect a lawsuit that will cost much more than any ticket will cost for the time and planning I have made. Will be celebrating our girls birthday and have family meeting us there already.
@ JCF
You aren't entitled to a mistake fare, if they work out great, if they don't, rebook. You are certainly entitled to sue them, but merely filing the law suit would almost definitely cost more than simply buying two full fare first class tickets from DXB-AUS and your likelihood of winning would be very low.
@ Craig -- I don't necessarily think that has any implications on whether this is honored or not.
Supposing that BA tries to "re-accommodate" on BA metal to avoid having to pay partner airlines for the true cost of the first class fares, they do offer a LHR-AUS nonstop on one of their new Dreamliners (BA# 191 LHR 11:55a AUS 16:05pm). That would mean people losing a lot of back-tracking segments if booked that way. Perhaps (hopefully) they'll just quietly honor it but I'd stay very flexible in the meantime in case they do try to pull a re-route on their metal for a more direct routing to AUS.
Yet again, I missed out on an awesome deal! Grrrrr....
I booked two itineraries with one through Orbitz and one through Expedia. Today all the charges are posted. My two trips are in fact for the same day with different routing. I first booked BA/BA/AA and after online reading I booked EY Bus/EY/BA/AA. One of the BA segment (LHR-LAX) is the same for the two itineraries.
I definitely want to keep the 2nd route just to fly EY F. My question is that can I cancel my 1st route now or should I wait for some official response from BA? I worry that BA may cancel the 1st route but keep the 2nd one.
@ JW -- It's anyone's guess. Like I said, I wouldn't be surprised if BA handles this poorly, so personally I wouldn't cancel yet.