"Flight not created by Manchester" error
Feb 23, 2015, 11:19 pm
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"Flight not created by Manchester" error
New experience (for me) at LCY this morning. Wandered up to check-in assistance as had been getting error online when trying to check-in for return this afternoon. Coincidentally another pax with same issue (and same flight, BA4467) was doing exactly the same.
Check-in agent got "invalid flight" message as it turns out Manchester hadn't created flight in the system yet. This is 10 hours before departure on a business heavy route. Hoping that it resolves itself soon as I'm cutting it fine on return.
Is this a common occurrence?
Check-in agent got "invalid flight" message as it turns out Manchester hadn't created flight in the system yet. This is 10 hours before departure on a business heavy route. Hoping that it resolves itself soon as I'm cutting it fine on return.
Is this a common occurrence?
Feb 24, 2015, 10:58 pm
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I believe I may have seen a couple of mainline flights like that, in my decade with BA - either the flight wasn't "created" in check in mode (departure control system), or it somehow got deleted after creation. Very few people in BA would have the access to create/remove flights, and I believe it's mostly done automatically based on the loaded schedule. I would say it's rare, perhaps bealine has better info.
It might happen more often than we know, but it's fixed before it affects anything or anyone.
It might happen more often than we know, but it's fixed before it affects anything or anyone.