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Following Robs review on Oman, I was inspired to book a trip to Oman and Dubai this April.
No reward outbound flight to Dubai, so booked LHR – DOH and DBX – LHR on BA business class using the 2-4-1 companion voucher. Now need to book separate onward flight from Doha to Muscat. Looking at a Qatar Airways reward flight. We land in Doha at 23:10 and the flight to Muscat departs at 01:15
Firstly, would the LHR BA staff check through our luggage To Muscat? I appreciate that BA have stopped the oneworld ‘two ticket’ bag transfer, however does anyone have any experience of this? Is it possible that the check staff would do this? If not, is 2 hours 5 minutes a realistic self transfer time for Doha or is this a ludicrous idea! Any advice anyone could shed would be incredibly appreciated. Many thanks
Zero chance.
BA won’t even do it if both flights are on BA.
This is because BA doesn’t want to be on the hook for the costs of getting your luggage to you if your inbound flight is delayed.
You don’t jave 2 hrs 5 mins!
You have that less the QR checkin / bagdrop deadline
If your flights are QR or if even one of them is, booking on 2 separate tickets is a risky strategy
QR (which can be booked with a QR flight number as well as with codeshare flight numbers such as BA ones) is acquiring a bad rep due to frequent schedule changes worsening the trips people may have even paid more to choose good flight timings for. The number of hours they unilaterally rescheduled people’s booked flights later or earlier, can vary from a couple of hours to much much more according to reports over time. Either by reschedule or cancellation and refusal to accommodate on earlier flights or available flights of theirs being sold, that would connect more reliably or pleasntly. (Anecdotally tickets paid for by BA avios may be the passengers chosen for offload it seems too, as compsred to tickets paid for by some other types of payment).
You also have the issue that on a flight operated by a non-EU airline you would only have EU/UK261 rights for your departing flight from the UK /EU to the final destination *on that same ticket*.
So depending on how much time between booking and flight dates, personally whether BA would check my luggage through onto flights on other tickets (and the answer to that from BA is always No) on split tickets via, say, Doha, there are other risks too.
OK. Booked a hotel in Doha and a later flight. Ticks off another country I guess! Many thanks for the input.
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