Originally Posted by
T8191
No, you are not doing anything wrong. We need to fly for JER (no surprise!) and invariably have to call BAH to get a Flight+Hotel or +Car organised … connecting flights from the Regions don’t compute!
Just jumped through those hoops on Friday, doing JER-LGW-KIN. Everything on-line failed to recognise the BA now does a daily LGW-JER: instead it kept trying to do JER-LHR-MIA-KIN!!
Having all your options pre-planned before phoning is usually a good idea, of course. Good luck
Thanks. It's so frustrating, isn't it?
The best approach I can think of, for my needs, is to continue using ITA Matrix to find the best flight combination from regional airports, then feed them individually into the normal BA Holiday booking page - the one that needs precise dates and destinations.
But it seems so discriminatory for BA to have a Holiday Finder that's supposed to help you find the cheapest deals, where dates and destinations aren't important, but that doesn't allow you to depart from anywhere apart from London. Surely if you live in Edinburgh, for example, you should be able to use a similar search tool for your local airport, not from London.