Self-booking on the next available flight

[supergraeme]

Hello all.

Sitting at City looking at our BA plane to Berlin and a group of engineers trying to fix it.

If it’s cancelled, can I self-book onto the next BA fight (which has a few seats left) in about three hours, rather than waiting to be rebooked – and get that refunded? We won’t be top of the list for rebooking but I’ve made a lot of plans for the weekend (visiting where my grandad was a POW) that I’m desperate not to miss. I really want to get ahead the moment it’s cancelled.

I have done this once before with a weather cancellation in Innsbruck, but it feels a little risky given the cost.

Thanks all!

[supergraeme]

Stand down everyone, we’re boarding!

[BA Flyer IHG Stayer]

You woundn’t have been able to rebook until the flight had been officially cancelled anyway.

[Rui N.]

Technically an agent can protect a seat on a later flight in such situations. You’d need to find a willing agent to do that though, so it’s the luck of the draw.