Kids fly FREE on BA to Leeds Bradford and Newcastle – up to 3 kids per adult

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• Polly says:

  1 Aug1 August 06:27

  So they are looking after the regions after all! Great thinking there Rob! Is this useful for you going up north to the mum? Or coming down to London? actually quite nice for family trips. Are these flights empty or what?

  • mark2 says:

    1 Aug1 August 06:40

    Well some regions.
    Not Midlands, South West, Wales, Eat Anglia ….

    • Brian says:

      1 Aug1 August 08:57

      Well, you’d be a bit daft to fly from East Anglia to London…

      • signol says:

        2 Aug2 August 12:39

        I’ve flown LHR-MAN-NWI before 🙂

    • Paul says:

      1 Aug1 August 11:05

      …N. Ireland

• Tim Millea says:

  1 Aug1 August 07:48

  Perhaps an indication that these routes are under-used and are up for review? I can’t imagine why anyone would fly between Leeds-Bradford and Heathrow unless they had a connecting flight. Travelling times at both ends, flight time plus airport time exceed the point-to-point train journey time. Newcastle is more marginal as at least it has a reasonable metro connection.

  • Polly says:

    1 Aug1 August 08:20

    Not bad if you have family near either of these cities. Must be flying empty in Y though.

    • oder says:

      1 Aug1 August 08:48

      I’ve flown up to Leeds before, then hired a car to drive up the the Yorkshire Dales. Very nice indeed! So there are some people who do it

  • Think Square says:

    1 Aug1 August 13:35

    It depends on your travel needs. I fly Manchester-London a lot, and Leeds-London occasionally. If you don’t want to go city centre to city centre (I usually don’t), trains are a pain.

    That said, on my LHR-MAN flight last week, every passenger could have taken 3 free children and still had seats to spare.

  • Dom462 says:

    1 Aug1 August 21:55

    Agree. I work in leeds and the feedback i get from long distance commuters from london is the hassle of going to LHR is too much over kings cross for a train, even though they can be priced similar. Maybe an argument for ba to consider switching the domestics to LCY if they really want to compete with the trains.

    • Calum says:

      3 Aug3 August 09:54

      I think they’re after connecting traffic primarily. The Scottish cities have LCY flights because the journey times there do favour plane over train.

• Grumpy says:

  1 Aug1 August 08:33

  Great. BA get rid of the complimentary segment from the regions on award bookings and decide to offer this instead. If there’s only one thing worse than a flight filled with badly behaved children, it’s a flight filled with badly behaved Geordie children. 🙂 I can only hope that this offer has something to do with the new baggage policy and the little humans are packed safely in the overhead bins 🙂

• Brian says:

  1 Aug1 August 08:59

  Not sure that following Rob’s ‘sneaky’ suggestion is a good idea – no doubt BA would cotton on quite quickly to the plan and would pull the offer, meaning that people who actually want to fly with children, rather than just being selfish and/or obese, won’t be able to take advantage.

  Not one of Rob’s finest hours.

  • mkcol says:

    1 Aug1 August 16:53

    Funny I thought of doing exactly what Rob had mentioned in his “sneaky suggestion” all by myself.

    If I’m capable of thinking it, I’m sure plenty of other savvy travellers will too.

    • Brian says:

      1 Aug1 August 19:21

      I don’t doubt it. It’s not the following that I personally find a bit dodgy. Still, each to his own. If these flights are running empty, it’s not an issue. If one is preventing other paying passengers from getting a seat at a reasonable price (I assume BA puts up prices as seats become scarcer on any particular flight), then it’s not something I’d do myself.

• mikeact says:

  1 Aug1 August 14:25

  I guess these routes are in the ‘not worth keeping’ category, and will eventually be dropped.

  • Dan says:

    1 Aug1 August 16:38

    I fly LBA to LHR on a semi regular basis and I’ve found most flights to be reasonably full. Although I do concede that Sunday night down to LHR is probably more popular than midweek.

    hope they don’t decide to pull it. Or perhaps it’s less full than previously due to the high cost of taking a domestic connection on an award ticket!

  • Dom462 says:

    1 Aug1 August 21:29

    LBA has an aer lingus regional flight to DUB at similar prices. I would expect either this or the BA LHR flight to be scrapped once the takeover is complete.

• Nick Burch says:

  1 Aug1 August 15:08

  I thought you only had 2 kids Raffles, not 3? Or is that an awkward conversation you still need to have with your wife? 😉

  • Rob says:

    1 Aug1 August 17:07

    Who knows how many are knocking around 🙂 ?

• D says:

  1 Aug1 August 23:08

  So BA prices domestics out of the rewards market at 9000 avios + £35 for a £50 return cash fare. Then its solution to resolve all of the excess capacity is to run buy one get three free promotions. Crazy.

  • D says:

    1 Aug1 August 23:18

    Sorry meant £90 return.

• Will says:

  2 Aug2 August 00:09

  In some perverse world, couldn’t this be argued as discriminatory? So if you happen to have 3 children then you can buy 4 seats for the price of one, but if you don’t have 4 children your price is 4 seats for the price of 4.

  A very odd offer indeed

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