Originally Posted by
Kruisler
Is this always true? My wife turned up at 9.30am for a 1.20pm flight to the US on BA in T5 (11th of Feb) and was not allowed to drop her bags off until 3hrs before the flight...
the op is a BA gold according to their profile so it’s true for them. Previously it used to be the case that people with no status and in y could only bag drop within 3 hours of the flight, but I don’t think that restriction is really enforced now - certainly the self service machines don’t enforce it.