BakerStreet81

My family is in the process of moving from the UK to the US for work-related reasons. I am already in the US (setting up housing etc.), but my wife is still in the UK with our (currently) 4 week old baby. Her parents are staying at our place in the UK to help with the baby. She and the baby (and her parents) are due to fly out to the US in a few weeks time. I will be flying back to the UK to help with the move.

The result of all this is that we will have three separate bookings, all in WT, for the same flight (LHR to ORD). One return US to UK for me; a one way UK to US for my wife and our son (this is a requirement of my company's relocation package); and a return UK to US for her parents.

We will be requesting a bassinet seat for my wife and son. Is there any way to get me (and/or my in-laws) associated with her booking so that we can sit together so that I can help with the baby on the flight, or do we just need to hope we get lucky?

I have read some of the other threads on travelling with a baby so we have a plan for most of the trip through the airport, but would welcome any tips or insight from people's recent experiences.

cbagent

If you call BA with the relevant booking references they can request seat allocations for the accompanying family members as close as possible to the adult and bassinet seating.....before calling though, and to enable the agent to clear data protection, ensure that whoever makes the call is authorised on all of the bookings as a third party nominee.

UKtravelbear

Seat requests for people on separate bookings can only be requested by BAEC Golds.

cbagent

Not the case...any passenger with an infant on the reservation can ask for accompanying passengers on a separate pnr to have adjacent seating allocated.

PETER01

Welcome to Flyertalk and the BA Board BakerStreet81 and I immediately thought of the fantastic song so I am playing it as I type this

I see cbagent has answered your query so hopefully that will give you peace of mind. I did actually think the same as UKTravekbear in that seperate PNR's for non Golds couldn't be accomodated or even asked for and that's the beauty of the board in many ways. Folks with direct knowledge (thanks for that cbagent ^)

UKtravelbear

from family travel seating

(my bold)

To me that is people on the actual same booking and not those who have been linked by a 'To Complete Party'.

cbagent

I can only urge calling BA. Having done the job for over 20 years I can assure you that passengers on separate booking but on the same flight can request adjacent seating in these circumstances.

BakerStreet81

Thank you all for your responses and for the welcome. It's something of a relief to know that we can arrange to be together on the flight - should make the experience slightly more bearable.