CE domestic followed by WT+ long haul?
Sep 5, 2017, 11:56 am
#1
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CE domestic followed by WT+ long haul?
This year, when the CE cabins were introduced for domestic journeys all our WT+ long haul journeys had the BHD-LHR WT tickets upgraded to CE.
When I look at booking similar for next spring this option doesn't seem to be available. Were we simply benefiting from a glitch that benefited us?
When I look at booking similar for next spring this option doesn't seem to be available. Were we simply benefiting from a glitch that benefited us?
Sep 5, 2017, 12:00 pm
#2
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Basically yes
You were originally booked in a class that allowed lounge access on the domestic leg and BA honoured that by putting you into CE.
Now you need to buy CE ticket if you want that
You were originally booked in a class that allowed lounge access on the domestic leg and BA honoured that by putting you into CE.
Now you need to buy CE ticket if you want that
Sep 5, 2017, 12:13 pm
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One of us is now Silver (weirdly with a card expiry date of Dec 2020, not 2019 probably due to an error with the 2 year extension) and the other will be soon. So lounge access is available anyway for the next 3 years.
Your info is interesting. I didn't know that WT+ gave us Lounge Access at that time.
Your info is interesting. I didn't know that WT+ gave us Lounge Access at that time.
Sep 5, 2017, 12:23 pm
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Sep 5, 2017, 1:06 pm
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One of us is now Silver (weirdly with a card expiry date of Dec 2020, not 2019 probably due to an error with the 2 year extension) and the other will be soon. So lounge access is available anyway for the next 3 years.
Your info is interesting. I didn't know that WT+ gave us Lounge Access at that time.
Your info is interesting. I didn't know that WT+ gave us Lounge Access at that time.
Before CE was introduced on Domestic Flights - the domestic connections to WT+ booked into Business UK which gave lounge access. Only applied to the domestic flight.
So weirdly on a WT+ trip you'd have lounge access at your Domestic starting point - but when you arrived in LHR to wait for your long haul you wouldn't have lounge access at LHR.
Sep 6, 2017, 3:13 am
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WT+ didn't give you lounge access.
Before CE was introduced on Domestic Flights - the domestic connections to WT+ booked into Business UK which gave lounge access. Only applied to the domestic flight.
So weirdly on a WT+ trip you'd have lounge access at your Domestic starting point - but when you arrived in LHR to wait for your long haul you wouldn't have lounge access at LHR.
Before CE was introduced on Domestic Flights - the domestic connections to WT+ booked into Business UK which gave lounge access. Only applied to the domestic flight.
So weirdly on a WT+ trip you'd have lounge access at your Domestic starting point - but when you arrived in LHR to wait for your long haul you wouldn't have lounge access at LHR.
There isn't the option of choosing to CE with at a WT+ even if I wanted to.
Flying from BHD (which is only 5 minutes from home) is so convenient. Pity that, despite my avid following of this forum and a wish to use other airlines, my only option is DUB which is about 2 1/2 hours door to door.
Sep 6, 2017, 3:18 am
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I thought as much.
There isn't the option of choosing to CE with at a WT+ even if I wanted to.
Flying from BHD (which is only 5 minutes from home) is so convenient. Pity that, despite my avid following of this forum and a wish to use other airlines, my only option is DUB which is about 2 1/2 hours door to door.
There isn't the option of choosing to CE with at a WT+ even if I wanted to.
Flying from BHD (which is only 5 minutes from home) is so convenient. Pity that, despite my avid following of this forum and a wish to use other airlines, my only option is DUB which is about 2 1/2 hours door to door.
Sep 6, 2017, 3:23 am
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I thought as much.
There isn't the option of choosing to CE with at a WT+ even if I wanted to.
Flying from BHD (which is only 5 minutes from home) is so convenient. Pity that, despite my avid following of this forum and a wish to use other airlines, my only option is DUB which is about 2 1/2 hours door to door.
There isn't the option of choosing to CE with at a WT+ even if I wanted to.
Flying from BHD (which is only 5 minutes from home) is so convenient. Pity that, despite my avid following of this forum and a wish to use other airlines, my only option is DUB which is about 2 1/2 hours door to door.
One option is that when booked you can UuA your domestic flights if there is CE reward availability. This would cost the extra avios (3750 or 4500) and possibly extra APD of Ł13. If you had your domestic flights in CE connecting on to long haul WTP you would get lounge access at BHD but not at LHR on the outbound, and on the inbound you would get lounge access at LHR before your LHR-BHD flight.
Sep 6, 2017, 3:44 am
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I'm confused: a CE short haul from DUB wouldn't make any more sense than from BHD and would probably cost more than upgrading the long haul to business while you're at it. From BHD you could use avios to upgrade the short-haul into Club, which would be the most cost-effective way (assuming that fuel surcharge and APD don't get you, anyway!)
