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Just reading about the new BA route to Guyana and wondered about stopovers in St Lucia. Does the absence of a stopover option during the booking process mean there are no cheap stopovers in St Lucia for this flight?
These routes don’t usually allow stopovers, AFAIK you’d either be booked to St Lucia OR Guyana. You might be able to book to St Lucia then book a separate ticket onwards to Guyana at a later date, either with cash or avios, if it’s another 5th freedom route. This is the way similar routings work on BA, e.g. Bahamas/Grand Cayman or Bahamas/Turks and Caicos.
These routes don’t usually allow stopovers, AFAIK you’d either be booked to St Lucia OR Guyana. You might be able to book to St Lucia then book a separate ticket onwards to Guyana at a later date, either with cash or avios, if it’s another 5th freedom route. This is the way similar routings work on BA, e.g. Bahamas/Grand Cayman or Bahamas/Turks and Caicos.
Ugh, and BA won’t even let you book one-way Guyana-St Lucia so open jaw plus a one-way doesn’t work either. Pretty sure I booked GND-UVF with BA once they so sell the Caribbean shuttle flights separately, just not this one yet.
Sorry to hijack this but it’s related – is the CW service on these fifth freedom routes basically Club Europe with a club world seat I.e. some mediocre food and a drinks service? Or is it just the CW seat and that’s it?
Also just to confirm, am I correct in thinking the following route with a 241 is allowed? LHR-NAS then GCM-LHR – and I can book NAS-GCM on a separate booking with cash or avios?
@ATP, you can book all these but CW NAS-GCM would be a waste of avios and/or money, tbh. You get a drink and some nuts, basically, as it’s only about an hour in the air, economy would be more than fine, especially as the cabin will have mostly emptied at NAS!
BA will need traffic rights and see enough potential demand to handle passengers for the St Lucia – Guyana links, so may not happen
@ATP I believe the service is a drink and a snack, it’s only an hour or so. You can book it like thatIndeed – they don’t load any more food for that hop and the club kitchen is stripped bare long before the plane gets to NAS!
In fact, it’s a very poor do, that route, on a 12 hour flight you get a main meal and tiny afternoon tea plus the snack between NAS and GCM so you arrive starving. Those in the know grab as many biscuits and Lindt balls as they can carry as soon as the club kitchen opens 😂
Thank you both! Will just do WT for the 1h hop. Saves me 30k avios and will just book exit seats if avail.
@ATP, you can book all these but CW NAS-GCM would be a waste of avios and/or money, tbh. You get a drink and some nuts, basically, as it’s only about an hour in the air, economy would be more than fine, especially as the cabin will have mostly emptied at NAS!
A packet of nuts would be preferable to the panini served on the 2h30 GRU-EZE sector. I couldn’t really tell you what was inside save that it was reddish, sludgy and dripping with grease – truly vile; cabin crew quite embarrassed. The dinner LHR-GRU was inedible as well, breakfast passable.
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