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Was supposed to be on the 8:55 MAN-LHR BD 585.
Just after check in went to an 11:30 departure, about 10 it went to a 13:30 departure (all the while the plane was sat at gate 18). I was debating options as I'm leaving for Japan tonight via CPH (on a different ticket number), decided I could just do a 13:30, but any later and I'd have had to get the train. However all of a sudden they started boarding about 11am, so, wasn't the end of the world as I have a relaxed enough schedule today.
I knew that it was a mid-haul plane at check-in so that cheered me up a bit, a nice last BD flight for the year. They cancelled the later 11am MAN-LHR flight and put them on our plane, but, nobody else could squeeze onto my nice business seat
Slightly off topic but hopefully some experienced FT's will have some advice/suggestions...
With the news of fog at LHR today it has gotten me slightly stressed about my flight next week - I'm flying LHR-ZRH-CAI with LX. The connection at ZRH is only about 50mins as it is. If I stress about this now I'm sure everything will be ok, but if it its not, at least I'll be prepared
There is only the only flight from ZRH - CAI daily with LX and if there is a significant delay like this morning then I'm stuffed. There is a flight that is ZRH-VIE-CAI (with LX/OS/MS) that leaves at 12.50 that has seats still available - would I be put onto that flight instead (if the flight from LRH gets in in time?).
I guess this is why you take out travel insurance, in case I then needed to overnight in ZRH to get the flight the next day. However checking out my travel insurance policy it doesn't look very good. I'm not covered for 'missed departure' as that doesn't include planes (only bus, coash, ferry or train). The travel delay section would apply but it only covers you for 15euro per 12hour delay which is hardly going to cover the cost of a hotel in ZRH!. So is my insurance policy crap or is this pretty standard?
As long as you booked this as 1 ticket, the transfer is something LX will worry about. ZRH is a fairly easy place to transfer and I've know direct aircraft > aircraft transfers when things have been really tight. Your travel insurance policy is fairly standard because the airline will give you a hotel in you missconnect in ZRH in these circumstances.
Cool, thanks for that ptr120 I'm not worried about the transfer if the flight is on time as I've read that ZRH is easy and that the connection is doable, but was just wondering what the situation was if the flight was significantly delayed as would have been the case this morning.
Was supposed to be on the 8:55 MAN-LHR BD 585.
Just after check in went to an 11:30 departure, about 10 it went to a 13:30 departure (all the while the plane was sat at gate 18). I was debating options as I'm leaving for Japan tonight via CPH (on a different ticket number), decided I could just do a 13:30, but any later and I'd have had to get the train. However all of a sudden they started boarding about 11am, so, wasn't the end of the world as I have a relaxed enough schedule today.
I knew that it was a mid-haul plane at check-in so that cheered me up a bit, a nice last BD flight for the year. They cancelled the later 11am MAN-LHR flight and put them on our plane, but, nobody else could squeeze onto my nice business seat
Small world. I knew someone on this flight, and they had a 2 hour connection at LHR to AC LHR-YYZ (in J). Who was responsible for the rebooking in a case like this? I know they are on a BD award ticket as I booked it for them! But I think, according to the EU rules that being an award ticket should not make a jot of a difference. Right?
I know they are en-route now, and I'll find out what actually happened soon enough, but what *should* have happened? BD responsible for rebooking? AC? Can AC Invol downgrade without compensation?
The fact that this was an award ticket doesn't make a difference - they would still have been rebooked as long as the whole trip was booked as 1 ticket
Probably a suitable thread to warn that 10cm of snow is predicted at LHR on Friday.
More than enough to bring London to it's knees
Aghhh - so much for stressing about things and then them being fine! I'm due to fly out LHR-ZRH-CAI at 6am on Fri morning. Let's hope the snow starts falling at 7am
Probably a suitable thread to warn that 10cm of snow is predicted at LHR on Friday.
More than enough to bring London to it's knees
Excellent! I'm taking LH4787 to Cologne on Friday afternoon. I may even have time to venture out of the *A lounge and visit the BMI lounge for a change!
