British Airways offering ‘overnight bag drop’ at Heathrow Airport

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• Graham says:

  10 Feb10 February 05:09

  BA have offered this for many years at Gatwick anyway – formerly known as ‘twilight check in’.

  • Waribai says:

    10 Feb10 February 05:15

    Yes, was about to say this. Very handy until I became a parent!

  • zonk says:

    10 Feb10 February 06:46

    Yes, this has been available for a long time, and definitely not something that’s only just been added to ba.com since August. The new component is the availability of this service at LHR. Have been using it at EDI and LGW for years.

    • Lady London says:

      10 Feb10 February 10:32

      Was only available to those with status I think. Same as the ability to check in anytime in the same day has been. At one time they were operating a silly rule at T5 that you could check in your bag the night before, but otherwise only max 3 hours before your flight if on the same day unless you had a particular status. Getting refused on that cost BA my following 2 flights which were booked elsewhere.

      • Peter K says:

        10 Feb10 February 10:57

        No BA status but flying club world and club Europe allowed night before drop off at Gatwick. I don’t know about flying economy from there.

      • Lady London says:

        10 Feb10 February 13:10

        I only did it at T5. Unfortunately have never flown out of LGW on BA.

• Craig says:

  10 Feb10 February 05:39

  Twilight bag drop is fairly old school now, resort check in is where it’s at!

  • Tom says:

    10 Feb10 February 07:30

    Yes, I use that whilst staying at the Hilton London Gatwick Beach Resort all the time!

• Jenni says:

  10 Feb10 February 05:56

  We have used this for years at Gatwick. EasyJet also offer this there.

• Chuck says:

  10 Feb10 February 06:07

  Curious regarding the final pic … what are those
  beige pots for do you think ? Maybe we can have a competition ? I’ll start with toddler restraining units !!

  • Peter K says:

    10 Feb10 February 10:59

    It’s the lounge toilet facilities. They have taken cues from ancient Roman culture.

• Barbs says:

  10 Feb10 February 06:10

  Twilight check in from BA and other airlines who offered it from Gatwick has been around for years, I made use of it if I had an early flight I just want to jump on the plane on the day without the hassle of check-in.

• Tom says:

  10 Feb10 February 06:15

  OT. Amex Platinum Insurance – I don’t think I am covered for the 24 hour delay at Heathrow yesterday, as on a reward ticket and I probably paid for the taxes on my BAPP

  So what I need to know is how good is this insurance if I didn’t pay with the Platinum card?

  Am I actually covered for anything whilst away?

  I guess I don’t really understand it in these circumstances.

  Long and stressful day yesterday and still at LHR having got my third and fourth boarding passes in order to get to Miami. Hopefully we’ll get there today…..

  • Stu N says:

    10 Feb10 February 06:48

    You’re covered by Platinum insurance if you paid with for any Amex card in your name.

    BA should cover overnight expenses and subsistence during any delay, but you won’t get compensation for delays as weather related.

  • Andrew says:

    10 Feb10 February 06:53

    Amex Platinum insurance covers you as long as you pay on a personal Amex issued Amex card in your name – so you are still covered if you pay on BA Amex. Weather isn’t excluded on the policy either, so you should be able to claim for out of pocket expenses such as overnight hotel.

    • Shoestring says:

      10 Feb10 February 08:45

      you obvs can’t claim twice for the same expenses & Amex are going to tell you to claim subsistence/ hotel etc from BA under duty of care

      but doesn’t Plat also have some minor compo for delays?

• Shoestring says:

  10 Feb10 February 06:26

  [If you are shorthaul flying to/from London Heathrow or London Gatwick on Sunday, February 9 or Monday, February 10, and wish to change your plans, you can rebook your date of travel to another flight to the same destination to another time from Monday February 10 to Thursday February 13, 2020, inclusive.

  If you are flying to/from London City on Sunday, February 9, and wish to change your plans, you can rebook your date of travel to another flight to the same destination to another time up from Monday February 10, 2020 to Thursday February 13, 2020, inclusive.]

• Claire says:

  10 Feb10 February 06:49

  Excellent news re bag drop. Have used at gatwick and will now do same this august for our trip to new york. Is it a special area as we are going in first for first time courtesy of a ba 2 for 1 and looking forward to the dedicated check in area. Thanks

  • Anna says:

    10 Feb10 February 07:34

    Have a fabulous time, Claire. We did exactly the same last May, I don’t know if it was to do with our arrival time (about 17.30) but we were first in the immigration queue and at the pick up stop for our car transfer within 10 minutes of landing!

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