BA cancels hundreds of GBP200 tickets to Tel Aviv and Dubai

Thousands of passengers have been told that bookings they made on BA will not be honoured. On 11 and 12 June BA flights to Tel Aviv and Dubai were put on sale through online travel agents at extremely low fares: around GBP200 return to Tel Aviv, and typically GBP220 return to Dubai. Similar fares were offered with “add-on” domestic flights from other UK airports. Frequent flyers quickly identified these as “mistake fares”, filed in error by the airline. The Independent understands that passengers who had booked to fly imminently were allowed to travel on the mistakenly issued tickets. But those with longer horizons have been told that their bookings have been cancelled. BA is issuing refunds, though since these have to be made through the online agent, they may take weeks to materialise. A spokesperson for BA said: “We’ve contacted the small number of travel agents who were able to access the incorrect fare for the short period it was available to advise them and apologise. We are fully refunding the tickets that were booked.”<br/>