BA - No more best price guarantee

[AuSammy]

British Airways Suddenly Cancels Best Price Guarantee With No Advance Notice

British Airways has ended its Best Price Guarantee with no advance notice.

loyaltylobby.com

 

[MEL_Traveller]

British Airways Suddenly Cancels Best Price Guarantee With No Advance Notice

British Airways has ended its Best Price Guarantee with no advance notice.

loyaltylobby.com

lol, read that.

No idea why all the outrage and clutching of pearls. That fact that no one except for Loyalty Lobby wrote about it means no one likely used it.

No loss me thinks.

 

[clifford]

Never heard of it until now. Not a big deal IMO.

 

[Ansett Nostalgic]

Never heard of it and also never heard of anyone using it successfully

 

[markis10]

Loyalty Lobby

The Aunt Agony of travel blogs

 

[anat0l]

Any price matching scheme by anyone - airline or hotel - is a gimmick at best and a scam at worst. Never works, and of course you need to take the plunge (risk) first before you can even have a chance to try and make a claim.

At least price matching in most retail in Australia can be done at time of sale. Airline and hotel price matching rigmarole makes US-based insurance companies look like saints sometimes.

 

[davem]

Used it almost monthly. Whenever it would work out in an 20 quid or more voucher.

Only had 1 knockback, which was at the start, you couldn't pricematch a flight you used a pricematch voucher on.

Shame it is gone.

 

[GDale]

Used it almost monthly. Whenever it would work out in an 20 quid or more voucher.

Only had 1 knockback, which was at the start, you couldn't pricematch a flight you used a pricematch voucher on.

Shame it is gone.

Same! This was the only price match scheme that consistently worked for me. Customer service was responsive and fairly human - on the odd occasion where they couldn't see the price, an exchange of emails with a few screenshots usually solved it. I suppose with more people preferring to deal directly with airlines even if it is at a slight premium, these sorts of inducements are no longer commercially needed...

 

[CorporateFlyerMEL]

I also have used it earlier this year - found a J price appox GBP20 cheaper than what I had booked, sent screen shots and got the voucher within 48 hours - which I used on a new booking

 

[ABC]

Used it a number of times in the past, it used to be very quick and you got a voucher for double the difference usually within 24/48 hours. Although they said you needed screenshots they never used to ask for them, I assume they just validated by searching the rival site.

In recent years though it got a lot slower and they always insisted on the screenshots, and it seemed to be more coughbersome and hit and miss with successful claims. I haven't bothered with it for a while.

I think too maybe the other sites got wise to the fact that some people were just using them for quotes to price match with BA.