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Looking at an Edinburgh holiday to Tenerife, but the return flight involves a transfer from LGW to LHR and an overnight is required.
Problem is the only options LHR to EDI the following day are like 6.50am, 7.50am etc – is there any way to force a stop over in London as you could with any other split flight journey?Yes – use the “customise trip” facility and select the flights separately. You may initially be shown the GLA option, but you can then opt to see and choose other options.
Also, there is a LGW-GLA flight about 10.30 in the morning, so returning to LGW and stopping over there may be another option. GLA flights are often cheaper than LHR.
I’m currently Silver and I want to get to Gold next year. I have booked 2 BAH trips (for the double TPs) and a TP run to Jakarta (1 of the BAH will be used for positioning). I’m not sure now though if I can still get the double TP on one of the BAH trips. Any thoughts if I can still get double TP in part or none at all with this itinerary. Thanks
CE LHR-MAN-LHR-TIA-LHR-MAN-LHR with 6 days car hire
Strangely, I have received DTPs for my outgoing flight only. It’s been over a month now and I’ve yet to receive the DTPs for the return flight to the UK (I thought BA were only posting the DTPs after the return flight).
Has anyone had any recent success in claiming missing DTPs? There’s quite a few corporate email addresses on this thread but I know some of these are now redundant.
@roamering where have you booked the car?
Strangely, I have received DTPs for my outgoing flight only. It’s been over a month now and I’ve yet to receive the DTPs for the return flight to the UK (I thought BA were only posting the DTPs after the return flight).
Has anyone had any recent success in claiming missing DTPs? There’s quite a few corporate email addresses on this thread but I know some of these are now redundant.
Just call exec club!
Car hire will be picked up at TIA
Hello! Just checking this offer is still on? When searching 7 night trips on BAH it mentions bonus Avios but no mention of double tier points?
Noob BAH question, do the flights need to leave the uk and can I hire the car at my home airport as long as the first and last flights are spaced 5 days apart?
Many thanks fine people.
The current ts & cs do refer to flights ‘departing the UK’.
You don’t need to leave the UK for the booking to qualify, but – if you do – you can only leave once
Thanks. Does anyone have info on if I can rent the car at the departure airport? Plan was do do some bouncing around the UK but rent the car in London (home base) and park it at home for 5 days. Take the first flights that same day and the last flights on day 5.
Thanks. Does anyone have info on if I can rent the car at the departure airport? Plan was do do some bouncing around the UK but rent the car in London (home base) and park it at home for 5 days. Take the first flights that same day and the last flights on day 5.
As is clearly started in the T&Cs the car / hotel element must be for 5 NIGHTS.
https://www.britishairways.com/content/executive-club/offers/holidays-double-tier-points
Hiring the car at the departure airport won’t qualify for double TPs. Too many domestic flights may also be problematic.
Data point
Returned from BA Holiday on 17th Aug and double points posted today
24 calendar days and 16 working days after returning
We had a six-sector booking where the double tier points unexpectedly posted after the fifth flight and before the sixth, and covered the first five flights only.
A month after the sixth flight had been credited with no subsequent doubling up of the tier points, our request for the missing points resulted in a response asking for more booking details, all of which had already been provided but which nevertheless I duly and politely provided again. That was over two months ago, and, despite chasing a couple of times, there has been no response at all from BA, not even any acknowledgements of receipt.
What is the quickest way to reach someone who can resolve this?
First time, long time etc…
I lose, yet could potentially win, with the shift in tier point accumulation periods. I have booked a BAH (flight + car) to top up my tier points and keep gold status with BA. Route is JER – LHR – DFW – LAS and return. Due to the vagaries of AA schedules (flights booked with BA numbers, so all good), I have been re-booked a couple of times, such that I end up with an 8 hour stopover at LHR before my final leg to JER, which screws up my back-to-back there. Now, here is where I can potentially win. Due to tier points accruing from 1st April, I need not take either that final leg, nor the return JER – LHR. I have dropped the last leg of ex-EUs before, without consequence (travelling HBO, obviously). My concern is that, should I do it this time, will I compromise the double tier points offering? Whilst I will be delighted to see my friends in western USA, this itinerary has been booked primarily to secure gold status for what should have been two years, but is now reduced to 19 months, so I would like to win, if possible.
Has anyone else dropped the final leg of an ex-JER (or elsewhere in the “UK”) and still bagged the double tier points?
Thank you.
I wouldn’t like to say – I got double TPs for flights I didn’t fly on a recent BAH, however they were cancelled by BA and re-routed on AF, which is not the same as just not taking them!
Data Point also – I booked a 7 sector BAH nearly 12 months ago and there have been at least a couple of T & C changes since then which would have made it ineligible. However, I’m pleased to post that my double TPs posted yesterday, only 4 days after taking the final flight.
The only issue I’ve had recently with my BA Hols (one not double TP eligible as it started in ARN and one that is) is that the Avios posted based on the ticket cost and not the distance method.
A call got the former sorted and the latter will be sorted soon.
I wouldn’t like to say – I got double TPs for flights I didn’t fly on a recent BAH, however they were cancelled by BA and re-routed on AF, which is not the same as just not taking them!
Data Point also – I booked a 7 sector BAH nearly 12 months ago and there have been at least a couple of T & C changes since then which would have made it ineligible. However, I’m pleased to post that my double TPs posted yesterday, only 4 days after taking the final flight.
To clarify, I wouldn’t expect to be awarded any tier points for the flight dropped, I just wouldn’t want to miss out on the double TPs for the flights that I did take!
What if your first hotel night was the day you fly but before you arrive? Overnight to Asia gets you in early in the morning and you want to go to your hotel and sleep. So I can just go book in and my 5 night stay clock is already running? Even tho I am paying and its rational, its the sort of thing BA wouldn’t allow. Anyone had this issue?
If you mean, e.g.
flight departs 20:00 on Oct 1st
You have hotel booked for Oct 1st
Flight arrives early on Oct 2nd
You check in Oct 2nd before check out timeI think this would count the same way that the first night in a hotel would count after a short flight, however you’d need to make sure the hotel was aware and not liable to cancel the rest of your stay as a no-show (and tell BA, though this is unlikely!).
Thanks for replying. It would be a five night booking say commencing 1st Oct leaving on 6th. I would tell hotel I am arriving early 2nd Oct. So I would meet 5 night criteria for stays but starting while I am in the air the day before on the 1st. I dont think the hotel would have problem , especially if I told them I was checking in late on that first 24 hr stay. Its just BA , you know what they can be like..
Just spoke with BAH and after extensive consultation with “the back office team” they said it would be fine. I got it in writing..
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