Originally Posted by scottish minnie

I’m looking to book flights from Gla/Edi to east coast USA in May. In the past I’ve used Gatwick/ Heathrow as the departure airport and returned back to Edi or Gla. I’ve then separately booked a one way to Gatwick or Heathrow the evening before and we have stayed over before catching our flight next morning. The reason for this has been that we’ve had more than one failed connection and numerous near misses despite leaving circa 4 hours between flights. It simply became less stressful to do it this way and it was also nearly always cheaper than a round trip from Scotland.

this time, however, starting from London is proving more expensive so I thought I could book from Scotland on a late evening flight for the morning connection next day and still achieve the overnight stay. I couldn’t manage it online (multiple combinations available but nothing with an overnight stop) so I called BA to ask them to price it. I was a bit surprised to be told Stopovers within the UK are longer allowed unless departing from somewhere outside the UK. Is this correct? I couldn’t find anything in terms and conditions or on the website and when I asked for a pointer to this “rule” I was told it’s not publicly stated as “that just leads to people finding ways round them”.

Any thoughts ? - I did HUACA and got virtually the same answer but as I was asked for my exec club number I’m guessing there may be a record of the call.