Originally Posted by
happyintheair
Hi all
Am looking at next year's travel. For personal (eg non business) reasons, I'm going to be doing very regular weekly shuttles to or from Europe/London, on BA.
If I block booked and paid for, say, 45 roundtrips in a calendar year (with similar patterns, in any given week going out on day X back on day Y), could I save a) time b) money by doing it with a TA?
It'd come to around £5-7k on ba.com in ET - is there any benefit (beyond saving mouse/ hand/eye strain in MMB and booking pages
in doing it through a Travel Agent, and then giving them one card number at the end for the 80-90 sectors it will cost?
All suggestions/ experience happily received
HiTA
a few relatively uneducated thoughts:
- yes, doing it via TA will save you time as someone else will type in all the details
- using a TA will likley cost you - they usually charge per flight though you might get a discount
- impact on POUGs etc by going through a TA rather than direct?
- ability to change flights online is there on MMB if you have booked it - I dont think you can change a TA booking online through MMB though maybe you prefer a TA to sort out any changes you might need?
- I don't think going down the TA route will save you money unless it's a TA who has corporate rates negotiated with BA which they might allow you to access given the amount of travel you are booking.