BA voucher new booking

[babynugget]

So we have caved and decided to rebook our July holiday to Xmas time instead.

My question is has anyone had any luck applying a voucher from a BA cancelled booking to a new online booking? The reason i ask is because I have found a deal we are happy with and want to book now, will not have chance to call BA to change the holiday until end of the week due to working long hours and thinking i could just book this now as a new booking then cancel the July booking later and apply the voucher to the booking i make tonight?

Has anyone done this or know if its doable?

[caro]

That's what we did with our last one. I booked online then emailed to ask for the voucher to be applied to the booking. Our voucher email did say specifically we could do it this way. I think more recent ones include a code you can enter at the checkout? They do change the way they do things though, so might be worth checking on the website that you can still do it this way.

[Annie17]

ours was the same as caro, had a booking for feb 2021, cancelled and found a good deal for august 2021 so booked it and then emailed and asked for the voucher to be added.

[Didgey]

Yeah you can do it exactly that way.

[babynugget]

Had you both booked the new holiday booking before getting the voucher?

I’ve just looked on the BA website and found somewhere it says that it can only be used for a new booking not existing which seems silly

[JoanicSicos]

Originally Posted by caro

That's what we did with our last one. I booked online then emailed to ask for the voucher to be applied to the booking. Our voucher email did say specifically we could do it this way. I think more recent ones include a code you can enter at the checkout? They do change the way they do things though, so might be worth checking on the website that you can still do it this way.

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I cancelled my July 21 holiday at the beginning of the month and didn't get a code - just an email to tell to say to reply back with new booking number and the value would be applied to the new booking.

[HappyM]

BA time stamp all activity so as long as the voucher was ‘issued’ even if you haven’t received it, before you made your new booking it is classed as a new booking and you can call up to use the voucher on the new booking. Obviously if you make the new booking before you physically receive the voucher you will have to pay the deposit out of pocket then add on the vouchers. Worth doing though if you secure a good price because if you hang around prices are likely to increase

[babynugget]

The package we were going to book has now increased by over £2000 in the last 24hours!

Thanks for responses, plan now is to keep our July booking and hope it goes ahead, will keep checking December prices though 😉