British Airways Benefits - Find out how British Airways can make your travels easier

• With as many as 600,000 children flying during the summer holidays alone, British Airways always goes the extra mile to ensure a seamless journey for families.
• Once a family booking is made, British Airways will make sure that seats are assigned together for travel. Once checked-in online or at the airport, priority is given to parents and children boarding the aircraft to help them settle into their seats. In addition, pushchairs can be taken to the gate all of which ensures a hassle-free start to the journey.
• On all longhaul services British Airways offers children’s meals, which can be booked in advance. On these flights children are served first.
• Children are given skyflyer activity packs suitable for their age that help them while away the hours and keeps them distracted and occupied. Personal seatback video provides hours of entertainment from Disney or Cartoon Network together with family and blockbuster movies. There is even a parental lock to block viewing of any unsuitable material on other channels.
• For children travelling alone, British Airways offers the skyflyers Solo service. Last year, British Airways looked after nearly 40,000 unaccompanied children, escorting them from check in to arrival at their destination.

It's always good to be prepared, and we want you to have the best journey possible when you travel with us. There are some things you can do before you get to the airport like check in on line, or you can just browse through some of our useful information.

Check-in on-line
From 24 hours before your flight, you can check in on-line and, in most instances, print your own boarding pass. When you arrive at the airport all you do is leave your bags at the Fast Bag Drop desk, where they are tagged, then you're free to go straight through security.

Latest flight news
We will let you know when there is any flight disruption, so it's worth checking before you leave for the airport, just in case. You can also access our arrivals and departures information to make sure your flight is on time.

When travelling to the US, you must either have the correct passport to travel on the Visa Waiver Programme (VWP), or have obtained the correct visa valid for your stay. You must also provide Advance Passenger Information for the US government prior to travel.

Additionally, from 12 January 2009, all customers travelling under the VWP must have Travel Authorisation from the US government.