Customise your trip’ with british airways holidays

News Hour:

British Airways Holidays has launched an industry leading online tailor-made package holiday service.

The new ‘Customise Your Trip’ service available online at BA.com allows customers to create a multi-destination holiday of their choice with total flexibility to combine flights in and out of different airports, book multiple hotels and select car hire for any part of their holiday.

Thanks to the new British Airways Holidays ‘customise my trip’ service, travellers can now build a more detailed itinerary, including British Airways’ partner airlines.

For example customers using ba.com can now search and book holidays to:

• Uncover Italy and combine Rome and Naples or Pisa and Florence in one trip
• Soak up South Africa by flying in to Port Elizabeth (via Johannesburg), meandering along the garden route staying in beautiful hotels in Port Elizabeth, Knysna, Plettenberg Bay and Hermanus, before enjoying the Winelands and flying home from Cape Town
• Turn up the heat in Thailand with a city break in Bangkok before heading on to the blissful beaches of Koh Samui, Krabi and Phuket on a British Airways partner airline
• Twin two USA cities and jet in to San Diego or San Francisco, before embarking on a road trip to Las Vegas, heading over to Hawaii or flying across to Florida

The customer can key in their perfect itinerary and their search will offer three packaged results – recommended, lowest price and luxury. They can select their preferred option and then customise it be selecting different hotel, cars or flights.

Alex Cruz, Chairman and CEO of British Airways, said: “We’re delighted to deliver this industry leading capability to enable holiday-makers to really customise their trip in destinations where they want to enjoy different experiences.

“The new ‘customise my trip’ feature on ba.com is easy and intuitive to navigate and customers can trust in the knowledge that every option we give them has been handpicked to meet a variety of budgets and preferences. Our customers can also rely on our 24-hour customer service helpline if the need arises while on holiday.”

Travellers can secure their trip with a deposit of just £150 and pay the rest up to five weeks before departure.

Avios can also be earned at a rate of two Avios per £1 spent on a BA Holidays trip through British Airways’ Executive Club loyalty scheme. Customers with a British Airways American Express credit card can also earn one Avios for every £1 spent and 9,000 bonus Avios if they spend £1,000 in the first three months.