Where does British Airways offer ‘overnight bag drop’?

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• Alexander says:

  20 Mar20 March 14:31

  Virgin do the same as mentioned. Annoyingly though, Virgin have told me (and it is on all emails) that every passenger has to be at drop off (maybe US-bound thing?). If I could go the night before with 4 bags, no family in tow, that would be a brainer for me, but why on earth would I take the whole family to check-in the night before? Seems a trick is missed there. And why can BA say only one person is needed and VS don’t?? Anyone know?

  • Robin says:

    20 Mar20 March 14:35

    Try Airportr

    • Alexander says:

      20 Mar20 March 14:37

      ex-MAN so no good but thanks. Still, it’s a free service that VS offer and mandating all passengers need to be present seems daft.

    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

      20 Mar20 March 16:14

      If you checked the airportr website you’d see that VS aren’t alone with this requirement, AA and SQ also have it too.

      • Alexander says:

        20 Mar20 March 20:01

        But Jet2 and BA don’t. So I was simply asking why.

• Ross says:

  20 Mar20 March 14:49

  For NON UK, some may find the following helpful.

  Day 1 flying Muscat to Bahrain on Oman Air.
  Day 2 Flight Departs Bahrain at 0200 on BA

  We wanted to stay airside, get a few hours sleep, and not have go through immigration, get our bags, and then a few hours later repeat the entire process.

  Oman Air in Muscat checked our bags through to LHR, (from Oman Air to BA, on separate bookings) this solved a major headache.

  At BAH, for some reason, despite having checked in online, we couldn’t get our Boarding Passes on our phones, or on the BA website. BA You First, BA local regional helpfesk all were unhelpful.
  BAH Transfer desk were useless and weren’t interested in anyone other than Gulf Air.

  We managed to get through Transfer security check without a boarding pass. Checked into the airport hotel and got some kip.

  Right next to the airport hotel is another Transfer desk, they were much more helpful! Printed the boarding passes and also made sure our luggage was on board.

  All good in the end!

  Hope this helps someone as phoning up BA and asking them these questions (on You First and a local call centre) resulted in no advice at all.

• John says:

  20 Mar20 March 20:30

  I usually finish packing 5 minutes before I need to leave for the airport…

  • Londonsteve says:

    20 Mar20 March 21:12

    Me too. I find this is when I’m most ‘efficient’ and up to the task. It does make for some stressful departures however when there’s a taxi booked, or I’m aiming to catch a train first.

  • David says:

    20 Mar20 March 21:15

    Wow. I usually have the case out week before and put in things in slowly (especially the stuff you usually forget).

    • MARGARET SEWELL says:

      23 Mar23 March 21:28

      And then add the stuff you don’t need .. because you have time to reconsider …..

• Ayten says:

  21 Mar21 March 14:07

  …and if you check your bags in overnight and your flight is cancelled the next morning – like today’s Heathrow disaster- what then? I’m so glad I didn’t use this for my 6:30 morning flight today as WITH my bags I was able to rebook on another service from an alternative airport

  • MARGARET SEWELL says:

    23 Mar23 March 21:36

    You find a lovely customer services manager at check in who takes you airside to reclaim your bags … which is what we did when we arrived from the hotel for our 6am check in , had bags taken and checked in , given boarding passes ( which we didn’t pay much attention to ) it wasn’t until we got to fast track security and passes wouldn’t scan it was pointed out that the flight was cancelled ( December storms) and the boarding passes were for a rebooked flight the next day ……. The agent at check in hadn’t bothered to mention it …….you have to love BA , although they were subsequently brilliant on compensation and rebooked without ys asking us so …..

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