V-Flyer

Hey guys,

I am soon to be taking an UC flight with my other half and we also have a friend joining us but she will be in EC. I am booking a car to take all of us to LHR, but just wondering how it would work with DTCI. Obviously my friend won't be allowed through there, but we will be guesting her into the CH.

So the options I can think of are:

1. Have the car take me and my partner through DTCI and then drop my friend at departures (will have to tell car company that there are effectively two stops at LHR).

2. Forget DTCI, all of us get dropped at Departures and check in together and make our way up to the CH together.

Im guessing we can still use fast track security with our UC tickets?

69 days til Hong Kong/Thailand

Your friend will be able to accompany you through DTCI. Just give all your names and details when you call up to book your slot.

You'll notice from other trip reports that there is a decent chance your friend from EC could pop up to UC to join you both at the bar etcetera for a short while during the flight (if bar not too crowded and you don't abuse the offer) or join you both at your seats, again for a short while.

Have seen this happen quite often when I've been in UC and nobody really seems to mind if it's for 15-20 minutes once or twice during the flight and it's not noisy, disturbing them sleeping, using bar themselves or doing whatever else they want to do .... but bear in mind that, like both of you, they paid extra for UC so be fair & considerate!

Of course this may now trigger a new thread of people complaining about non-UC passengers they have had spoiling their UC flights but I've only been really fed up on one trip to St Lucia where two UC passengers had 2 friends up from PE and all 4 of them were really loud / annoying for over an hour (until someone snapped, just before I was about to, and complained to the CC and got them removed).

TimCrawley wrote:You'll notice from other trip reports that there is a decent chance your friend from EC could pop up to UC to join you both at the bar etcetera for a short while during the flight (if bar not too crowded and you don't abuse the offer) or join you both at your seats, again for a short while.

This is very much at the discretion of the FSM. They just can't fetch up hoping for an invite. It is up to you to request it and after that it is in the hands of the FSM. I've been on flights where guests have been allowed up and passengers in the UC cabin behind the curtain have felt that they too were able to partake.

Also, guests have been known to over-indulge - but of course, yours wouldn't dream of doing that would they?

Thanks for confirming that gumshoe - what a lovely surprise that will be for my friend then and less hassle all around

With regards to friend joining us in UC for a bit - she probably (?) won't be too bothered about joining us. I am certainly put off trying it as I have a bad experience from earlier this year when the other half and I flew back from Atlanta and he was in UC and I was in PE and on my way to the toilet I dared to step foot in the UC cabin (literally by the bar which was two steps from the toilet) to quietly speak to him for a few minutes and one of the cabin crew put me in my place and told me to move on - she wasn't really nice about it either, I felt like a second-class citizen.

I guess if my friend does want to join us for a bit I can check with the FSM, if not at least to stretch her legs but to keep us all sane on a 13hr flight!!