new year's day to iad from linate
Dec 1, 2014, 5:59 am
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new year's day to iad from linate
Greetings to all, this is my first message
The first day of the year I will fly from Milan to Washington through Heathrow
We are a family of four world traveler, blue card
The 31/12 is the birthday of my daughter, is there a remote possibility of an upgrade on the A380?
What is the time to pass immigration at Dulles with passengers on the new A380, the fact that it is the first year will be a good or bad event? This is the first time in USA
What about world traveller dining ? is better to buy something in heatrow before take off?
tks
The first day of the year I will fly from Milan to Washington through Heathrow
We are a family of four world traveler, blue card
The 31/12 is the birthday of my daughter, is there a remote possibility of an upgrade on the A380?
What is the time to pass immigration at Dulles with passengers on the new A380, the fact that it is the first year will be a good or bad event? This is the first time in USA
What about world traveller dining ? is better to buy something in heatrow before take off?
tks
Dec 1, 2014, 6:06 am
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Greetings to all, this is my first message
The first day of the year I will fly from Milan to Washington through Heathrow
We are a family of four world traveler, blue card
The 31/12 is the birthday of my daughter, is there a remote possibility of an upgrade on the A380?
What is the time to pass immigration at Dulles with passengers on the new A380, the fact that it is the first year will be a good or bad event? This is the first time in USA
What about world traveller dining ? is better to buy something in heatrow before take off?
tks
The first day of the year I will fly from Milan to Washington through Heathrow
We are a family of four world traveler, blue card
The 31/12 is the birthday of my daughter, is there a remote possibility of an upgrade on the A380?
What is the time to pass immigration at Dulles with passengers on the new A380, the fact that it is the first year will be a good or bad event? This is the first time in USA
What about world traveller dining ? is better to buy something in heatrow before take off?
tks
I assume you are talking about a free upgrade? If so, I believe you will be unfortunately out of luck. It isn't usually BA policy to give out free upgrades, unless it's for operational reasons.
I'm sorry I can't help more on the other points.
Dec 1, 2014, 6:13 am
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And may it be the first of many. Welcome to Flyertalk dags1972, welcome to the BA Board, it is good to see you here. Please make yourself comfortable here and I hope you will find this forum useful and interesting. Welcome on board.
Now I'm notorious around these parts for have never flown WT, so I'm not able to give first hand experience of this. Given your status and size of your family I really doubt anyone will be offered an upgrade, not least because BA have been very successful in filling up the A380. Furthermore there will be several people on board with birthdays, weddings or other special events in their lives. BA isn't known for generosity in this area.
You may be able to purchase an upgrade for a couple of hundred of pounds either in Milan or Heathrow. IAD is in the middle for immigration clearance compared to other airports: better than some, not as good as others. Though it now has automated kiosks which speeds up the process considerably. So I would hope no more than an hour, hopefully a lot less, but no one can know in advance. You can position yourself on the people movers (between aircraft and passports) to get out quickly but with a family I guess that may be more tricky.
You can assume the usual chicken / beef food in WT, and we don't see so many complaints about that here, but if you had a picky eater in your group you may want to get something in Heathrow, there are plenty of options, from sandwiches in Pret a Manger to a carry off superior airline meal bag from Plane Food.
I hope you have a good flight.
Now I'm notorious around these parts for have never flown WT, so I'm not able to give first hand experience of this. Given your status and size of your family I really doubt anyone will be offered an upgrade, not least because BA have been very successful in filling up the A380. Furthermore there will be several people on board with birthdays, weddings or other special events in their lives. BA isn't known for generosity in this area.
You may be able to purchase an upgrade for a couple of hundred of pounds either in Milan or Heathrow. IAD is in the middle for immigration clearance compared to other airports: better than some, not as good as others. Though it now has automated kiosks which speeds up the process considerably. So I would hope no more than an hour, hopefully a lot less, but no one can know in advance. You can position yourself on the people movers (between aircraft and passports) to get out quickly but with a family I guess that may be more tricky.
You can assume the usual chicken / beef food in WT, and we don't see so many complaints about that here, but if you had a picky eater in your group you may want to get something in Heathrow, there are plenty of options, from sandwiches in Pret a Manger to a carry off superior airline meal bag from Plane Food.
I hope you have a good flight.
