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Looking at another double tier point BA Holiday to Tenerife in Nov to maintain silver, but with most flights departing Gatwick and non-existent domestic connections from Scotland to Gatwick make this a real pain.
What’s others’ experience of this, are there better Canary Islands destinations that offer better Scottish connections (ie via LHR)??
Thanks
Tenerife can be flown from LHR (but I think maybe just Fridays/Saturday) – I have a trip booked.
There is 1 flight per day from GLA to lGW if that’s possible
As per @freckles, there is a morning flight between LGW and LGA, but you may need to overnight at LGW to make this fit the TFS schedule. This can be part of the BA Holiday booking, however.
You will probably need to search for each leg separately for the LGW flight to show, I found this when booking a UK itinerary. The BA Holiday “custom” booking page still kept throwing up LHR departures, but when I went into the “other flights” page, the LGW-GLA option was there to select.
Looking at another double tier point BA Holiday to Tenerife in Nov to maintain silver, but with most flights departing Gatwick and non-existent domestic connections from Scotland to Gatwick make this a real pain.
There’s a Sunday flight from EDI to LGW BA 3294 in the Summer schedule, but you’re travelling in the winter schedule.
You’d miss out on the Double Tier Points, but wouldn’t you be better off grabbing one of the direct RyanirAir, Easyjet or Jet2 flights? Between GLA, PIK & EDI they operate about 6 services a day to TFS.
Looking at another double tier point BA Holiday to Tenerife in Nov to maintain silver, but with most flights departing Gatwick and non-existent domestic connections from Scotland to Gatwick make this a real pain.
There’s a Sunday flight from EDI to LGW BA 3294 in the Summer schedule, but you’re travelling in the winter schedule.
You’d miss out on the Double Tier Points, but wouldn’t you be better off grabbing one of the direct RyanirAir, Easyjet or Jet2 flights? Between GLA, PIK & EDI they operate about 6 services a day to TFS.
Good option but the 160 tier points is a big lump to lose. Any other options that mostly leave LHR rather than LGW?
Don’t think so to Canaries – Lanzarote and Gran Canaria both seem to be LGW
You can check timetables though
https://www.britishairways.com/travel/schedules/public/en_gb@RonnieB, agree this is worth doing for the 480 TPs. The problem is most “leisure” routes are from LGW. I’ve had this issue, especially as there are now no flights at all between MAN and LGW. For 80 TP routes from LHR, you’re better doing a city break like ATH or SOF, (or going all out and going to the USA or ME).
We probably need a thread/article on which routes give what TPs AND which airports these depart from.
*Though with ATH, you can fly into the city and there are various coastal/island options you can do from there.
If you’re intent on LHR route, the only day that works with same day domestic connections is a Saturday. Although there are the flights on Fridays it gets back too late and you’d have to overnight at LHR.
Prices in November look very high, so it’s whether a 480 double points is worth it. Otherwise, for just the 320 points consider the big orange bird for a separate LCC into/from LGWYou would be able to get the morning flight from Glasgow to Gatwick (07:00 GLA – 08:35 LGW) and make the connection for one of the Tenerife flights (13:20 LGW – 17:40 TFS).
On the way back there is a return to Heathrow, but as that gets you in at 22:40, it will be too late for a connection to Scotland anyway.
So regardless of the airport you fly into, you would need an overnight in London. The hotel night in London can count towards the 5 night count if you include it in your BA Holiday booking.So if you got the 12:45 TFS – 17:10 LGW or 17:05 TFS – 21:30 LGW flights back, you could get the 10:20 LGW – 11:55 GLA the next day.
If you wanted to fly to another Scottish airport on the return, then you could do the 18:10 TFS – 22:40 LHR, and get a flight the next morning instead.As @NothernLass states you will need to search for this via the BA Holiday “custom” booking page and go into the “other flights” page, to select the LGW-GLA option.
Hope that helps.
If you have lots of time, you could combine it with a couple of days in London as you can select whichever dates you want for the actual flights. We did this last summer – flew MAN-LHR-VIE, had 3 nights in Vienna, then flew VIE-LHR, had another 3 nights in London then flew LHR-MAN. It was a nice trip to use up an expiring covid 241 and also enjoy the T3 lounges!
Thanks for all the helpful responses 🙂
Do you get double points if you book the BA holiday with Iberia flights changing in Madrid?
I was wondering about this. It might be okay as long as all the flights have BA numbers, however I don’t think IB does GLA-MAD, or if OP would get the same number of TPs with this routing. GLA-LHR-MAD-TFS might be lucrative but a huge faff!
Iberia domestic flights in Business give only 20 TPs.
Upsss…
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