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#21 Post by Capetonian » Sun Aug 25, 2019 10:00 am

Time for Cruz to take a cruise.

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#22 Post by Ibbie » Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:00 am

Seems they are not advising people with cancelled flights correct/full information as to what they are entitled to under EU law.

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#23 Post by Capetonian » Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:18 am

They have advised the cancellations more than 14 days in advance, so no EU261 compensation is applicable.

What people are entitled to is :
A full refund, and this includes flights in the same journey that might be from a different airline (for example, an onward or return flight)
A replacement flight to get to your destination
Or, if you are part way through your journey and don't want a replacement flight, you are entitled to a flight back to the airport you originally departed from.


BA are making it difficult for people to contact them to get information and make changes. An utter disgrace for an airline once considered one of the finest in the world, which has been brought to its knees by a Spaniard who doesn't appear fit to run a churros stand.

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#24 Post by barkingmad » Mon Aug 26, 2019 8:14 pm

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rte.ie/amp/1070882/

And curiously just before their friends BA are hit by pilot strike chaos? Is this how BA will offload their premium and/or business travellers from busy routes onto old friends in the industry for some sort of backhander? And the ordinary punter due to fly soon with them will mysteriously find themselves offloaded due "overbooking"?!

I see baby's bottom syndrome erupting again.

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#25 Post by Woody » Thu Sep 05, 2019 6:15 pm

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#26 Post by Boac » Tue Sep 10, 2019 10:44 am

A small escalation: BALPA members involved in the strike are to lose 3 years of staff Travel 'privileges'. That should help settle things down.

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#27 Post by Capetonian » Tue Sep 10, 2019 11:52 am

I wonder if anybody else noticed that in his interview with Sky tv yesterday morning, the Cruiser referred to the airline as 'British Airlines'.
Really no hope when the man doesn't even know the name of the airline that he's destroying.

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#28 Post by Woody » Tue Sep 10, 2019 12:37 pm

Capetonian wrote:
Tue Sep 10, 2019 11:52 am
I wonder if anybody else noticed that in his interview with Sky tv yesterday morning, the Cruiser referred to the airline as 'British Airlines'.
Really no hope when the man doesn't even know the name of the airline that he's destroying.
Lots of people talking about it on the internet.
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#29 Post by Woody » Fri Sep 20, 2019 11:14 pm

More excellent publicity tonight, as BA59 with loads of press on board for the Royal Tour, has gone tech and been delayed 20 hours :((
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#30 Post by Capetonian » Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:18 pm

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#31 Post by Woody » Sun Sep 22, 2019 12:43 pm

Guess who’s not allowed anywhere near tonight’s Cape Town flight #:-S

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... HOURS.html
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#32 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Sun Sep 22, 2019 1:56 pm

Woody wrote:
Fri Sep 20, 2019 11:14 pm
More excellent publicity tonight, as BA59 with loads of press on board for the Royal Tour, has gone tech and been delayed 20 hours :((
So how much did the DM pay you for this story? :D
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#33 Post by ian16th » Sun Sep 22, 2019 2:08 pm

What sort of snag did the a/c have, that was almost immediately diagnosed as needing 20 hours to fix?

A donk swap?

I suppose that any spare a/c there might have been, is being held back in case it is needed for tonight flight!
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#34 Post by Woody » Sun Sep 22, 2019 2:39 pm

ian16th wrote:
Sun Sep 22, 2019 2:08 pm
What sort of snag did the a/c have, that was almost immediately diagnosed as needing 20 hours to fix?

A donk swap?

I suppose that any spare a/c there might have been, is being held back in case it is needed for tonight flight!
Aircraft returned to service this morning to operate a MIA flight , but it was still nearly 3 hours late :((

Not sure about a spare aircraft tonight, however there is a RAF Voyager parked at Ex-A’s old stamping ground, don’t know if anyone else is flying out today.
So how much did the DM pay you for this story? :D
Nothing, aircraft full of journalists, they interviewed themselves :((
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#35 Post by Woody » Sun Sep 22, 2019 9:07 pm

I suppose that any spare a/c there might have been, is being held back in case it is needed for tonight flight!
Looks like there’s been an aircraft change, flight departs 50 minutes late so far :-o
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#36 Post by Ex-Ascot » Mon Sep 23, 2019 5:19 am

Running 33 mins late. :-o 33 secs late and we would be in the *****. They seem to have been given a direct routing. Not officially a Royal Flight though. We would have shoved on loads of extra gas and put the throttles to the wall.
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#37 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Sep 23, 2019 5:38 am

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Mon Sep 23, 2019 5:19 am
Running 33 mins late. :-o 33 secs late and we would be in the *sh*t*. They seem to have been given a direct routing. Not officially a Royal Flight though. We would have shoved on loads of extra gas and put the throttles to the wall.
Just as well they weren't flying Thomas Cook. :))

As for leaving a bunch of journalists gibbering because they have run out of alcohol while waiting for an aircraft that has gone tech will be a blessing for the young couple and the 30 minutes the Royals lost will 30 minutes less danger of being robbed in South Africa.

Time was when BA was a reasonable airline. Now it has fallen below the status of Rancho Cucamonga Air and is fast descending to the status of Cockroach Air (Delhi's Favourite Airline) or even Thong Air of Thailand...

It is a wretched airline and has been for some time. Ryanair (God help us) would probably do better if they flew long haul!
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#38 Post by Capetonian » Mon Sep 23, 2019 6:00 am

At least Ryanair are good at what they do, more than you can say for BA.

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#39 Post by Ex-Ascot » Mon Sep 23, 2019 6:04 am

I seem to recall a Royal Flight on Concorde where the crew were very aware of making the 'doors time'. They did but he overshot the red carpet and it took some time to get a tug to push them back onto it. Guess BA do not issue chinagraphs to put marks on the DV window.
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#40 Post by Slasher » Mon Sep 23, 2019 6:21 am

Capetonian wrote:
Mon Sep 23, 2019 6:00 am
At least Ryanair are good at what they do

Yes mate - keeping the bloody Unwashed off airlines you choose to travel with. :)

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