Originally Posted by
ElizaB
Yes, I had two separate tickets. I was using 2 companion tickets and avios for our first leg from IAH to LHR (roundtrip) and we were going to take the train from London to Edinburgh. However, there was a heat wave and then some sort of strike that prevented us from being able to take the train so we booked the LHR to EDI. BA refused to check our bags through even though all tickets were with BA and all were business.
Yes, 2 tickets come with this disadvantage. The advice you would have gotten here at the time is that 3 hours isn't enough with checked bags, since you are not connecting but making 2 separate trips.
But if you are on one ticket to BCN this won't be a factor, you can check through to the destination. Particularly if you have a day or two in BCN before sailing then you best check through, ideally not book the tightest connection and be aware of your first port of call after Barcelona. If it's Toulon or Ibiza the bags can be collected there, and you can charge BA for additional clothes (etc) if the bags are delayed. That only happens in a small minority of cases, you can't read across from other anecdotes in that respect.