The On Business devaluation BA told you about … and the secret one they didn’t

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• Neil Spellings says:

  2 Oct2 October 07:27

  I think this will be the nail in the coffee for me giving BA my business (and ultimately collecting Avios)

  I’ve been increasingly frustrated at the lack of award seat availability on BA when I most need them (usually during school holidays). There is essentially zero availability during July and August on transatlantic routes to US and Canada, and with a family in tow flying via Europe or Ireland just isn’t worth the extra hassle.

  I think their motto needs adjusting to “To fly (if you’re a cash fare paying customer), To serve (our shareholders)”

• James67 says:

  2 Oct2 October 08:28

  I fear it is not just On Business, a number if emails and other info from BA keep hintinv at forthcoming changes to the EC and based on what is going on elsewhere in the industry the best we can probably hope for is some good and some bad. I’m holding out to early November for a tesco bonus but if it doesn’t come I will convert anyway and get s few redemptions locked in, maintaining a moderate bslance in the hope MFUs continue to be the value they are now.

• Pid says:

  2 Oct2 October 13:17

  Can you join On Business and then claim retrospectively for flights taken in the last few months?

  • Rob says:

    2 Oct2 October 14:10

    No:

    “9.10 Reward Points that are not tracked automatically at the time of travel may be credited later at Our discretion. You may claim Reward Points after completion of an Eligible Flight taken by a Travelling Employee by logging into Your account and submitting a missing points claim available at http://www.ba.com/on-business-travel provided that:

    9.10.1 the claim is made within 4 months of the date of travel; and
    9.10.2 You were enrolled in the Programme at the time of travel by the Travelling Employee.”

    • Tom H says:

      2 Oct2 October 14:45

      Is it the individual(and business) or the just the business which needs to be enrolled at the time of travel?

      • Rob says:

        2 Oct2 October 15:03

        You don’t enrol individual travellers, only the business. Any flight taken by anyone with your OB number on it will get credited to your account.

• Alan says:

  2 Oct2 October 21:15

  Very disappointing news, Raffles 🙁 How did you unearth it and have you noticed a marked difference in redemption availability in CW?

  • Rob says:

    3 Oct3 October 07:01

    It drifted down to me via BA contacts. I don’t have enough points to book a CW with OB, sadly, but a look at CE availability compared to ba.com R class seemed to confirm it.

• Teece says:

  3 Oct3 October 10:11

  Hmm. Just trying a few dummy bookings, and I’m being offered one seat on Wed 9th October to JFK, on the 173, which is booking into D class via a revenue booking. Also, for long-haul, don’t forget that I class is lower than R class, so it’s not the lowest of the low.

  • Rob says:

    3 Oct3 October 10:12

    Interesting. I will have a deeper dig and do some more tests.

    • Teece says:

      3 Oct3 October 10:54

      That was the only flight on that day (despite others selling D class), and the following day it was only the R class flights that were being offered up, some oddity there. So the general rule does appear to be R. But at least it’s R class, and not I.

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