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Let’s say I hold BA Silver/Oneworld Sapphire status and my wife does not. If I book two cash tickets in a single booking via BA (or Oneworld partner) for us, does my wife also get Silver/Sapphire benefits: priority check-in, boarding, baggage etc. I see that BA silver holders can bring 1 guest to Business lounges, but the other scenarios I listed above I cannot find an answer for.
Broadly, for benefits on the day of travel you can typically “guest” your wife, although that can vary in application. I think check-in is officially no but likely to be allowed in practice; fast track security depends on the airport (but some allow a guest, especially in the UK); boarding officially yes but depends on the gate agent knowing that (although they rarely enforce groups that well anyway).
Does not apply to benefits that depend on the booking in advance – e.g. baggage, seat selection (the latter only kicks in at Gold).
Baggage – no. Priority boarding – yes (it’ll be on your boarding passes), check-in – as long as you present yourself as the lead passenger they won’t be interested in the status of rest of your party.
Check-in on Business counter: yes for all
Seat selection: yes for all (can select any seat other than emergency on LH)
Luggage: Yes for all (all get +1 on normal fare)
Security priority lane: 1 guest
Lounge: 1 guestThis can change depending on airline:
For instance on Iberia, as silver you can buy the cheapest ticket and check-in your luggage for free (something you cannot do on BA where the cheapest ticket does not include luggage). But your companions cannot (this is not always enforced tbh).
On Cathay only those with status can select a free seat, so you would be able to but she wouldn’t.On the same booking she gets the same benefits as you (other than being unable to invite an extra lounge guest)
https://www.britishairways.com/en-us/executive-club/tiers-and-benefits/silver-benefits
This includes check in and security.
Baggage is specifically mentioned in the “tailored service” section.
Apologies, I was thinking back to our last economy flight which was AA domestic a few months ago – I was allowed 2 checked as Silver but OH was only allowed one as Bronze.
Thanks all – very helpful.
Apologies, I think I misread the original post. I read the “two cash tickets” but missed “single booking”. This answer is much easier – if on the same booking then your wife gets all of your silver benefits automatically. even baggage allowance.
My answer was for separate bookings, where it is more manual for guesting.
As noted above full details are here: BA Silver Benefits
Which includes “ a checked baggage allowance of two pieces in economy for everyone on your booking, except on our Basic fare that is hand baggage only with no check baggage included. This benefit also applies to others travelling with you on the booking.”
Do I get a prize for oldest post resurrection?
My question is essentially that of the OP but our scenario is that I will be OneWorld Sapphire (thanks, Royal Jordanian 🙂) travelling with OH on a single booking Avios redemption on/in BA economy. OH will be without status by the time of travel.
We are both BA Silver right now & thus made the booking with seat selection. We will be inbound LHR on a BA 2-4-1 Avios booking in CW but going onward in economy for the short hop LHR-FCO. We will therefore both need that extra baggage perk!
I’ve learnt thus far that I must get my new RJ FFN firmly entrenched in our booking but it suddenly occurred to me that I will be the only one with any status.BTW, are there any Flying Blue / SAS useful SkyTeam matches still on? Maybe I could get OH through the same route as mine. BA Silver – Flying Blue match – Royal Jordanian match?
Will they not just check your luggage through to FCO, or are they separate bookings?
Separate bookings @NorthernLass – wasn’t about to squander Avios on Club Europe for such a short flight!
You can book a connecting flight in economy, we did this on DUB-LHR-MEX last year. Though you might mean you just wouldn’t waste the avios, full stop!
Really 😮? I didn’t know that. In fact, I thought I knew for sure it wasn’t possible as I tried when booking a different trip last year without success but I can’t remember the circumstances. Hey ho, there’s always something new to learn.
I did mean that I wouldn’t waste Avios on Club Europe. The economy booking is minimum Avios + maximum cash and I got a massive 6p per Avio value! (Avio is my preferred singular term 😆)IIRC if you want mixed cabin flights (say economy out and club back) you need to call.
You should be shown 3 cabin classes on a long-haul reward booking, and you can choose whichever you want on each leg (there used to be a quirk which meant the system wouldn’t show all 4 classes so you couldn’t mix Y and F without calling, don’t know if this is still the case).
For short-haul connections before or after a long-haul sector you can avoid calling (usually) by selecting the “stopover” option. You can then select different cabins on each leg if you want to.
So I selected Y for DUB-LHR, then F from LHR-MEX (there’s only ET and CE on short-haul, of course so the system displays those even if you select F for your search).
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