Hi Guys, thank you for such informative posts...really helpful..

I will be travelling to the Maldives via Mumbai... it is a bit of a trek as we are travelling BA to Mumbai then UL (Sri Lankan) from Mumbai to Colombo and on to Male..

Doing it this way as we had an amex voucher and miles to use, and managed to get First..(so excited) to Mumbai...

Anyway, my questions are :

We will have 3 1/2 hours in Mumbai between the BA and the UL flight.. does anyone know if we can check our bags at Heathrow all the way through? to Male? BA are being very uncooperative and will just not give me an answer..

If (as i suspect) it is the worst case scenario and we have to collect our bags, then i assume we have to go through all the rigmarole of immigration and customs and then go and check in again.. Does anyone know about doing that? Has anyone done it? We managed to get a good deal on UL and we are business with them so am hoping that even if we do have to we have enough time...

Any comments or advice?

Regarding the BA lounge .. is it definitely closed?

Also, we are doing the same routing on the way back except because of flight schedules we are staying overnight in Mumbai .. so will have to collect our bags and then check in again as normal next day...

We are doing this trip in April, so any advice before then would be great.

Thank you so much

Jess