Group Bookings on BA
May 27, 2019, 9:39 am
#16
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At outstations it would indeed be via the usual check-in desk but you may have to be dealt with via a particular member of staff so there may be a bit of a wait there. Not sure how the First Wing versus normal check-in creeps into your previous question, but never mind. There are no advance seat selection on Group tickets, at the risk of repetition, seat allocation is under airport control. If HBO you can not avoid an encounter with check-in, you can't get a boarding pass. If it is a proper group booking there is indeed one head PNR for all the people on the booking, but in terms of the IT is handled differently than standard ticketing. You can't split yourself off, it's not the way it works.
Nov 27, 2022, 12:04 pm
#17
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At outstations it would indeed be via the usual check-in desk but you may have to be dealt with via a particular member of staff so there may be a bit of a wait there. Not sure how the First Wing versus normal check-in creeps into your previous question, but never mind. There are no advance seat selection on Group tickets, at the risk of repetition, seat allocation is under airport control. If HBO you can not avoid an encounter with check-in, you can't get a boarding pass. If it is a proper group booking there is indeed one head PNR for all the people on the booking, but in terms of the IT is handled differently than standard ticketing. You can't split yourself off, it's not the way it works.
Nov 27, 2022, 12:21 pm
#18
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Really not asking for a repetition here - but I don't believe it was answered before, can a BAEC number be added to a group booking before checkin? Little Miss LimitingFactor is going on a school trip and would like to ensure she gets her number in the booking/against the boarding pass and worried she might be bamboozled at checkin and not get her number added.