BA Club bargains to Hawaii
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A quick query - apologies if it's been answered earlier in the thread. I understand that if you fly the Dublin to London leg then there are high chances that the price paid will be looked at by BA as you're cheating the system.
Is the same true if you don't take the London to Dublin leg at the end, or is that acceptable to BA?
Is the same true if you don't take the London to Dublin leg at the end, or is that acceptable to BA?
DanL said:
A quick query - apologies if it's been answered earlier in the thread. I understand that if you fly the Dublin to London leg then there are high chances that the price paid will be looked at by BA as you're cheating the system.
Is the same true if you don't take the London to Dublin leg at the end, or is that acceptable to BA?
Not flying the Dublin/London leg will cancel you complete booking so this one must be taken. If you miss the London/Dublin leg there is no real problem if it's a one off. If you do it regularly it will be looked at unfavourably & you may get a bill. If BA know you are deliberately not taking it, they have every right to give you the bill for the difference in fare. Is the same true if you don't take the London to Dublin leg at the end, or is that acceptable to BA?
tim0409 said:
keith333 said:
When we return to LHR I was wondering about forgetting the last leg and getting an Easyjet flight back to Edinburgh. In Sydney on the way back, can I ask for our luggage NOT to be checked all the way to Dublin?
You can ask at check in if they will short check your bags; what I do to eliminate any risk is to choose a different London airport for the Dublin leg so that you are guaranteed to get your bags back (i.e. If I am arriving into Heathrow, then I would book LCY-DUB).Lots of discussion here on short checking - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-exe...
I flew from Dublin to Seattle and back from San Francisco.
It worked well. Cost was approx £1k, and i went in August.
It was cheaper than economy from Heathrow!
I'm 6ft4 so flying Club was so much better for me. I had a night flight so the lie flat seats were useful. I was on the upper deck of the 747 with a window seat for that flight too, so had even more room. Boarding from the lounge in SFO made life easier too.
Quite tempted to use this method again.
It worked well. Cost was approx £1k, and i went in August.
It was cheaper than economy from Heathrow!
I'm 6ft4 so flying Club was so much better for me. I had a night flight so the lie flat seats were useful. I was on the upper deck of the 747 with a window seat for that flight too, so had even more room. Boarding from the lounge in SFO made life easier too.
Quite tempted to use this method again.
From Virgin's conditions of carriage.
"3.3.6 Please be advised that in the event you do not show up for any flight without advising us at least 24 hours in advance of the scheduled time of departure of the flight, we may decide to cancel your return or onward reservations. However, if you do advise us in advance, we will not cancel your subsequent flight reservations."
Does this mean that if you were flying out of Dublin for example, but lived in the UK, you could avoid the locating flight and Dublin leg altogether by simply calling them?
"3.3.6 Please be advised that in the event you do not show up for any flight without advising us at least 24 hours in advance of the scheduled time of departure of the flight, we may decide to cancel your return or onward reservations. However, if you do advise us in advance, we will not cancel your subsequent flight reservations."
Does this mean that if you were flying out of Dublin for example, but lived in the UK, you could avoid the locating flight and Dublin leg altogether by simply calling them?
cashmax said:
From Virgin's conditions of carriage.
"3.3.6 Please be advised that in the event you do not show up for any flight without advising us at least 24 hours in advance of the scheduled time of departure of the flight, we may decide to cancel your return or onward reservations. However, if you do advise us in advance, we will not cancel your subsequent flight reservations."
Does this mean that if you were flying out of Dublin for example, but lived in the UK, you could avoid the locating flight and Dublin leg altogether by simply calling them?
Perhaps raise this one with the vflyer forum. Quite a few seasoned experts there."3.3.6 Please be advised that in the event you do not show up for any flight without advising us at least 24 hours in advance of the scheduled time of departure of the flight, we may decide to cancel your return or onward reservations. However, if you do advise us in advance, we will not cancel your subsequent flight reservations."
Does this mean that if you were flying out of Dublin for example, but lived in the UK, you could avoid the locating flight and Dublin leg altogether by simply calling them?
Just got a decent deal on club world ex-EU flights to New York in July 2016
Copenhagen via LHR to JFK return which would have cost roughly £900 at current exchange rate, but they allowed me to use 30k avios under a current promotion to reduce it to £403 which is (in my opinion) a bargain for business class flights. Yes, I have to get from Edinburgh to Denmark but that is a £29 Ryanair flight and I will probably drop the last leg and get a cheap BA flight back from London.
Copenhagen via LHR to JFK return which would have cost roughly £900 at current exchange rate, but they allowed me to use 30k avios under a current promotion to reduce it to £403 which is (in my opinion) a bargain for business class flights. Yes, I have to get from Edinburgh to Denmark but that is a £29 Ryanair flight and I will probably drop the last leg and get a cheap BA flight back from London.
Thanks - I'm already booked and travelling 2nd half of July.
I am prepared to travel all segments and have back up flight reservations but would rather use them for time reasons.
Would be great if anyone has some real experience of being refused short checking of baggage ex US on return legs or being pushed to complete all segments.
R1
I am prepared to travel all segments and have back up flight reservations but would rather use them for time reasons.
Would be great if anyone has some real experience of being refused short checking of baggage ex US on return legs or being pushed to complete all segments.
R1
psychoR1 said:
Just gearing up for a trip in July and thought to ask if anyone had seen BA clamping down at all on short checking baggage or penalising passengers for not completing their final leg?
Anyone with any recent BA experience?
R1
A couple of travel agents have had issues, but no reports of it happening to individuals.Anyone with any recent BA experience?
R1
Have never been refused short checking myself including recently, but it all depends on the agent at your origin. For this reason carry on only is best, but if you do have baggage, then it is always better to have a london airport change and then miss the final sector.
Worst comes to worst, offload yourself when you get to T5 (baggage desk in baggage claim, or at customer service if you go through transit security and are airside), and they will fetch your baggage - although this can take a couple of hours as they are notoriously slow doing it.
Remember that they can't physically make you fly the final sector if you don't want to, and you should be ok.
If they stop taking the p*ss with prices, then people will stop doing it. Until then, it is fair game as far as I am concerned.
OK just coming back to this - we were refused short checking at MIA and advised that if we didn't fly all segments that a fare increase would be applied - not sure how.
So we flew the Dublin segment - no biggie.
Problem was our baggage ended up on a later flight to Dublin so had to be repatriated the following day and couriered to us - circa 24 hrs late.
Next time I will split airports in the UK i.e. City/LHR or LGW and do the positioning return the day before.
R1
So we flew the Dublin segment - no biggie.
Problem was our baggage ended up on a later flight to Dublin so had to be repatriated the following day and couriered to us - circa 24 hrs late.
Next time I will split airports in the UK i.e. City/LHR or LGW and do the positioning return the day before.
R1
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