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What are my rights to cancel flight within week of purchase?
uklel
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So, just booked with BA a few days ago but chose wring airports 
They will let me change it but I have to pay more for that even though the right airport is £270 instead of the £570 I paid. They said they can not sell me the same price as online so would mean changing my flight to the £270 one would actually cost closer to £750 in total.
Do I have any rights to cancel as only just booked?
Was bought online via their website.
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
They will let me change it but I have to pay more for that even though the right airport is £270 instead of the £570 I paid. They said they can not sell me the same price as online so would mean changing my flight to the £270 one would actually cost closer to £750 in total.
Do I have any rights to cancel as only just booked?
Was bought online via their website.
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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So, just booked with BA a few days ago but chose wring airports
They will let me change it but I have to pay more for that even though the right airport is £270 instead of the £570 I paid. They said they can not sell me the same price as online so would mean changing my flight to the £270 one would actually cost closer to £750 in total.
Do I have any rights to cancel as only just booked?
Was bought online via their website.
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
You normally have 24 hrs to notice any mistakes and cancel for free.
Sounds like they are cancelling your original booking and making another.
How far apart are the airports? Too far to commute?0 -
Distance selling regulations do not apply to flights.Posts are not advice and must not be relied upon.0
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Booked from gatwick to Salzburg but should be Heathrow to Munich but took 3 days no notice... Teach us not to rush I guess 0
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It's not that, it was choice of flights. Less than half the cost to go to Munich instead of Salzburg0
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That's an extraordinary mistake to make.0
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First holiday, rushed, screwed up 0
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It's not that, it was choice of flights. Less than half the cost to go to Munich instead of Salzburg
Eh??
Have you looked into dirving\train from Salzb airport to Munich?
Can't be that difficult.
Similarly LGW is not that far from LHR so no problem there really.
And Besides Salzburg is probably a better holiday destination?0 -
As I said, it's not getting to one or the other, it's paying more than double to go to Salzburg when we should have gone to Munich then taken the train0
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where change fees and fare difference are used, you do not get any benefit if the new fare is lower, you would just pay the change fee (if applicable)
The change fees say they apply to 'time and date changes' so it is possible that route changes are not 'changes' so it is a cancel and rebook.0
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