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Hello! Bit new to the concept of points runs, but I need to get 10 Tier Points on BA before end of this year to make it to Silver. If I book the lowest cost return from Edinburgh to London Heathrow, will this do it? Do I have to exit the airport and re-enter or can I just fly in, then hang around T5 until return flight (I can kill time with lunch or shopping in the terminal!). Thanks in advance for any advice 🙂
Yes – a London return will do it. If you want a quicker turn around look at LCY. You don’t need to leave the airport but you do need to go landslide at both airports.
I did MAN-LHR return a couple of weeks ago to get my 4 sectors for Silver. We ended up at a remote stand so I had to go through connections and show my boarding pass to get back to the gates but generally we land at the A gates when we do a long haul with a domestic connection so I’d enquired about that previously and apparently there is a desk near A5 where you can show your BP and have your photo taken – you need to do this before you can get on your flight back to EDI. There;s a whole thread about it on Flyer Talk if you can be bothered reading it.
Have you checked prices though – a lot of domestic flights are more expensive than going to Europe at the moment!
I think @memesweeper means landside 😂, though landslide is quite apt this week.
I recently did a round trip to DUB for this purpose, it was under £50 return. However from EDI prices looks to be at least twice that for one way..
I recently booked 24hrs in Bordeaux from London rather than Edinburgh as it was cheaper. Same points
You do not need to go landside at Heathrow. You can go through domestic connections and there isn’t even another security check.
One potential problem is that it wouldn’t be a ‘back-to-back’ in the usual sense in that it wouldn’t (necessarily) be the same aircraft going back – so allow enough time between arrival and return to allow for any delays to the first flight.
I did do this a few weeks back and it was straightforward…off the plane at LHR Terminal 5, up the stairs to Flight Connections, passport scanned at the e-gate, back into T5 departures. Had lunch at Plane Food, read my book a bit then back on the flight to EDI. 10 Tier Points gained. Now if only Alaska Airlines would give me my TPs for a flight taken with them in SEPTEMBER, I might just make Silver before the end of this year and the limit goes up from 450TPs to 600TPs. Fingers crossed.
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