My trip checklist and airline essentials

Build a checklist for your journey and find the right official airline tools, with no account or booking details needed.

Your checklist, matched to your trip

Choose whether you are planning, already booked or flying within 48 hours. Add family, connection and assistance needs to show the checks relevant to you. No item is completed automatically.

Before booking

  • Check passport validity, entry permission and transit requirements for every traveller. · Read guidance
  • Compare the airports, flight times and full journey time in your quote. · Read guidance
  • Confirm which airline operates each flight and whether connections are on one ticket. · Read guidance
  • Confirm the cabin and checked baggage included for every flight, plus the cost of any extras. · Read guidance
  • Read the fare conditions, payment deadline and change rules before paying. · Read guidance
  • Check that your travel insurance covers your trip and personal circumstances. · Read guidance
  • Check each child’s travel documents and any consent documents needed for the full route. · Read guidance
  • Ask the airline about family seating, infant arrangements and any equipment you need to reserve. · Read guidance
  • Confirm where bags are checked through to and whether you must collect them during a connection. · Read guidance
  • Allow for collecting bags, changing airports or terminals, border checks and checking in again. · Read guidance
  • Check your separate-ticket conditions and what you would do if a delay meant missing the next flight. · Read guidance
  • Contact the airline to request the assistance you need and confirm arrangements for each airport. · Read guidance

Before you fly

  • Check the e-ticket names, dates and airports, and find your airline booking reference. · Read guidance
  • Find your airline’s check-in window, airport arrival advice and bag-drop deadline. · Read guidance
  • Check in when your airline’s window opens and follow any airport document-check instructions. · Read guidance
  • Check security and liquids rules at your departure, connection and return airports before packing. · Read guidance
  • Recheck your terminal and flight status, then plan your arrival around the airline’s deadlines. · Read guidance
  • Confirm pushchair and child-equipment allowances, then pack essentials for the journey and delays. · Read guidance

At the airport

  • Keep passports, required travel documents, booking details and boarding passes ready for checks. · Read guidance
  • Complete any required document checks and bag drop before the airline’s deadline. · Read guidance
  • Check the airport screens for your gate and be there by the boarding deadline. · Read guidance
  • Go to the agreed assistance meeting point at the time confirmed for your flight. · Read guidance

Official airline essentials

Select your operating airline to find its own check-in, manage-booking, baggage and contact tools.