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British Airways expands connection car transfers for premium passengers

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British Airways has announced an extension of its chauffeur driven executive car connection service at Heathrow.

Passengers travelling in First, Club World or Club Europe, plus British Airways Gold and Silver Executive Club members who are at risk of missing their connection, will be driven to their next flight.  Apparently an initial trial has proved successful and more vehicles are being added to the airline’s fleet.

British Airways expands premium car transfers

Other current initiatives to improve the Heathrow connection experience are in-air rebooking with your new flight details sent to the crew and a boarding pass waiting for you at the plane door, the allocation of planes with large numbers of connecting passengers to a gate in the same part of T5 and self-service boarding pass printers in the Flight Connections Centre.

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Comments (174)

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  • JamesCG says:
    19 Sep19 September 12:49

    O/T I am trying to self refer from a Gold Amex to a Black BA card but when I click on the refer link I only get the option of a Gold or Plat Amex even when clicking “view other cards.” What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

    • swhostring says:
      19 Sep19 September 13:06

      Did you see ‘our other credit cards’? If not, you’re probably doing nothing wrong, likely it hasn’t promulgated to other cards yet, I think people here reporting it’s back are talking about Plat

    • Jonathan says:
      19 Sep19 September 15:21

      It defo working again from both my Platinum and my wife’s Gold. Visit the link in a new browser, click the ‘View our other Cards” button and you should see three tabs ‘Charge Cards’ ‘Credit Cards’ and ‘Business Cards’. Click learn more on the required one and fill out the application form.

    • Wally1976 says:
      19 Sep19 September 20:47

      Try a different browser?

  • PB says:
    19 Sep19 September 12:49

    OT – just called amex to cancel my BA PP card. They said I’d lose my unattached / unused 2-4-1 voucher which still has over a year to expiry. Thought I had read here previously that cancelling the card wouldn’t void the voucher, can anyone confirm?

    Many thanks.

    • swhostring says:
      19 Sep19 September 13:04

      Many people have confirmed this over the past few years. I just read 1 plausible case history where somebody lost the 2-4-1 voucher in that time, could easily also have been user error.

      You’re 99.9% safe

      • Rob says:
        19 Sep19 September 13:30

        I haven’t even seen one example for a credible source. The only one I’ve seen is from someone working for BA.

    • Alan says:
      19 Sep19 September 20:59

      Haha perhaps one of the oldest ones in the books 😉 Advice on here is correct, Amex agents are wrong.

  • swhostring says:
    19 Sep19 September 13:49

    Current Wine Explorer offer @BA Offers is pretty good – 14 drinkable wines @ £3.93p/ bottle delivered, 2 free Dartington glasses and 1000 Avios – @1p makes the wines £3.21/ bottle delivered

    • Craig says:
      19 Sep19 September 13:58

      The first two bottle I had from the case were fairly disappointing to be honest. They’ve offered to collect the rest and refund me, just deciding if it’s worth the hassle.

  • Gave S says:
    19 Sep19 September 13:58

    Hi Rob
    Any info ad to the definitive date of Avios.co closing?
    Need to do a transfer and combine,hoping the avios will not go in a black hole!!

  • Benylin says:
    19 Sep19 September 16:03

    OT: Gregg’s doesn’t accept AMEX . On plus side drinking my free cappuccino via Three’s wuntu app.

    • BlueThroughCrimp says:
      19 Sep19 September 17:01

      Greggs app + Top up with PayPal = Amex in Greggs

      Plus there’s the occasional freebie with the App.

  • swhostring says:
    19 Sep19 September 18:03

    Passports, good to know: the Passport Office is no longer adding unexpired months onto your new passport, effective 10th September. Many countries require 6 months left on your passport, so this rule change will work against you. For others, you may want to delay renewing your passport until the last month or so, depending on travel plans. No word yet on whether the EU will need you to have 6 months remaining or not when you enter.

    • Chris says:
      19 Sep19 September 19:24

      Anyone know which countries have a 6 month rule?

      • Lumma says:
        19 Sep19 September 23:16

        It tells you on the individual country pages on the foreign office website for travel abroad. Might take a while to go through all of them but I’m sure I’ve seen many countries that don’t need any additional validity.

    • Alan says:
      19 Sep19 September 21:00

      Wow that’s pretty rubbish – always made use of that in the past.

  • swhostring says:
    19 Sep19 September 18:09

    O/T Tesco’s new discount store format, Jack’s – meant to take on Aldi & Lidl – will NOT give Clubcard points.

  • Harry says:
    19 Sep19 September 18:36

    Does anyone here use Experian web monitoring? I’ve had several emails from them last week telling me that my email phone number last name and postcode have been published and sold illegally online. Wonderful. Thanks BA.

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