{"id":20030,"date":"2016-07-18T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/we-thought-wed-booked-a-flight-on-ba-but-ended-up-on-a-budget-airline\/"},"modified":"2016-07-18T13:03:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T06:03:42","slug":"we-thought-wed-booked-a-flight-on-ba-but-ended-up-on-a-budget-airline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/we-thought-wed-booked-a-flight-on-ba-but-ended-up-on-a-budget-airline\/","title":{"rendered":"We thought we\u2019d booked a flight on BA but ended up on a budget airline"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWe paid for British Airways standards and service, not for a no-frills experienceI would like to draw your attention to our recent experience with BA. In June my partner and I flew to Rome on BA2542, and had reservations to return on BA8844 a week or so later at 5.30pm.When we tried to change our return flight we were told this was not possible, as BA was no longer responsible for our booking. It had been transferred to a company called Vueling, a low-cost, no-frills Spanish airline \u2013 despite it still having a BA flight number. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…We thought we\u2019d booked a flight on BA but ended up on a budget airline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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