British Airways

If your Cruise Nation holiday includes British Airways scheduled flights, we will issue your e-tickets approximately 14 days prior to travel, these tickets will need to be printed by you and presented at the airport to the British Airways check in desk where you will then be provided with your boarding passes. Online Check-in is available between 24 hours and 1 hour before your flight departs (2 hours for flights departing the USA). Please ensure the airline locator is presented at check-in for your flight. Full flight details are provided on your confirmation invoice that has already been provided.

ADVANCE PASSENGER INFORMATION

Advance Passenger Information (also known as API or APIS) means your Passport/Identity Card details and in some instances, your contact information, are provided to the authorities before you travel.

British Airways may only provide each country's Customs & Immigration authorities with the relevant API or booking data required by law. This is governed by Data Protection laws applicable in the UK and the requesting country.

It is important that you provide API for each passenger travelling with you. Any inaccurate or incomplete data provided could delay your journey, either at check-in or with the immigration authorities. Cruise Nation nor British Airways cannot accept responsibility for incorrect or incomplete data provided.

HOW CAN I PROVIDE MY API DATA?

Please go to the website www.britishairways.com. Click on “Manage my booking” and underneath “Find my booking” you will need to enter your British Airways booking reference and surname then click on “Find booking”.

On the next page, you will be asked to provide an email address and telephone number, once you have done this click on “Continue”.

Underneath “Passenger information” click on “Add details” this will take you to the next page where you will complete the API data for each passenger, once this is done click on “Submit details”.

WHEN DO I NEED TO HAVE PROVIDED MY API BY?

Ideally you should have provided your API by no later than 21 days prior to travel. British Airways will accept data from the moment that your booking has been made through us.

PASSENGER DOCUMENTATION SERVICE

Here at Cruise Nation we offer a service to update and complete all necessary Advance Passenger Information for the airline and cruise line you are travelling with for your holiday. We will then print and post all your necessary information to you, so you don’t need to worry about a thing. If you would like to use this service, you can email us at reservations@cruisenation.com with your contact number and we will call you back to gather the necessary information.

Our Passenger Documentation Service is £4.99 per passenger.