V-Flyer

Hi everyone,
Just looking at booking a UC ex dub flight via Expedia, but once I select the return flight, it says the seats are no longer available?
This is for lax, sfo, cancun! Is this just a glitch or do I have to access Expedia another way?
Any experienced advise appreciated
Thanks!

Hi,

I can only tell you my experience, I booked them all as separate legs, i.e. multicity flights (DUB-LHR-SFO-LHR-DUB).

Once I had purchased them they appeared in both my BA & VS accounts, where I was able to select the VS seats in my account. Haven't done the BA (DUB-LHR and return) as I object to paying for this especially as it's a Club Europe fare.

I looked at my flights multiple times before booking so I don't think by doing so Expedia uses up any of the seats in a particular fare buckets. I guess just keep trying unless you can get someone to check the loads for you.

You can also check the flight options through the Google Flights tool (https://www.google.co.uk/flights/ - select the Multi-city box) before trying to book on Expedia. I find it a much quicker tool for checking available flights and likely costs.

Had a similar problem a few weeks ago, seemed to be when Aer Lingus flights were involved. Try ebookers instead.

Maybe that could be why I didn't have a problem, never looked at Aer Lingus for the Dublin leg, just BA as there was only a couple of quid in it.

My logic was that if BA failed to get me from DUB-LHR and as a result I missed the LHR-SFO leg I would stand a better chance of still getting there as BA flew to SFO from LHR whereas Aer Lingus don't.

AlphaEcho wrote:Maybe that could be why I didn't have a problem, never looked at Aer Lingus for the Dublin leg, just BA as there was only a couple of quid in it.

My logic was that if BA failed to get me from DUB-LHR and as a result I missed the LHR-SFO leg I would stand a better chance of still getting there as BA flew to SFO from LHR whereas Aer Lingus don't.

If you booked them all as separate legs, i.e. not all on the same PNR and your BA DUB-LHR flight is late and you miss your SFO flight, I'm pretty sure BA has no responsibility to get you to SFO, although ISTBC, since the flights are all separate bookings, and they would technically only have responsibility to get you to LHR, connections on different PNRs don't count. Likewise, since these are commonly booked in the least flexible fare buckets, VS probably wouldn't reprotect you into another flight either. That's the point of having these ex-EU multi leg journeys on one PNR.

When they're on one PNR all legs of the booking will show up in your MMB on each carrier's website, although you'll only be able to make seat selections etc via each website for each carrier's portions of the booking.

Bretty wrote:

AlphaEcho wrote:Maybe that could be why I didn't have a problem, never looked at Aer Lingus for the Dublin leg, just BA as there was only a couple of quid in it.

My logic was that if BA failed to get me from DUB-LHR and as a result I missed the LHR-SFO leg I would stand a better chance of still getting there as BA flew to SFO from LHR whereas Aer Lingus don't.

If you booked them all as separate legs, i.e. not all on the same PNR and your BA DUB-LHR flight is late and you miss your SFO flight, I'm pretty sure BA has no responsibility to get you to SFO, although ISTBC, since the flights are all separate bookings, and they would technically only have responsibility to get you to LHR, connections on different PNRs don't count. Likewise, since these are commonly booked in the least flexible fare buckets, VS probably wouldn't reprotect you into another flight either. That's the point of having these ex-EU multi leg journeys on one PNR.

When they're on one PNR all legs of the booking will show up in your MMB on each carrier's website, although you'll only be able to make seat selections etc via each website for each carrier's portions of the booking.

All the flights are on the same PNR, when I said I booked them separately want I meant was I did it as a multi-city booking putting all the legs in individually, with dates & timings, i.e. DUB-LHR-SFO-LHR-DUB rather than just DUB-SFO-DUB that way I could tailor exactly the flights I wanted and the onus is still on BA to get me all the way to SFO and not just LHR.

Ahh that makes sense. Happy travels.