Using Your Crystal Ball: Predicting the Timing and Duration of a BA Strike
Jan 14, 2007, 5:25 am
#16
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Can anyone confirm this? That would be outstanding. While I think a miles ticket should be treated the same as a cash ticket (I certainly paid for it, I just paid for it by taking earlier flights), I knew a lot of airlines viewed things differently. Anyway, that would be lovely if BA treated my ticket like a cash F ticket.
Jan 14, 2007, 6:14 am
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Jan 14, 2007, 6:43 am
#18
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If the 69 kg allowance isn't enough, extra bags in the hold on BA cost 120 per bag or 96 per bag if paid online.
On the other hand you may be able to take more hand baggage on Lufthansa or KLM - you won't be allowed more than one bag in the cabin on a flight departing from London.
Jan 14, 2007, 1:57 pm
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Can anyone confirm this? That would be outstanding. While I think a miles ticket should be treated the same as a cash ticket (I certainly paid for it, I just paid for it by taking earlier flights), I knew a lot of airlines viewed things differently. Anyway, that would be lovely if BA treated my ticket like a cash F ticket.
Commonly, in the first moments of the disruption, the commercial policy will be subject to the same booking class being available or ponying up the additional dough - this is frustrating but is probably to offer the best immediate assistance to those who have paid most for their tickets. The policy is then usually updated a few hours later to allow rebooking in the same cabin (rather than same booking class) and, sometimes, one cabin higher (this was offered during the December fog debacle).
I'm not sure how the ticket desk will feel about rerouting a miles ticket on to another airline but when it comes to rebooking alternative BA flights, no distinction is made.
During a time of crisis, it essentially becomes a matter of getting you the hell off our backlog.
Jan 15, 2007, 7:55 pm
#20
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Just a thought....
Rather than starting a new thread, I thought it might be worth reviving this one on the slide for people to post conjecture/rumour/knowledge about the likely timing of strike action, rather than the issues raised by the strike threat itself (now into 4 pages and heading towards OMNI territory as the evil proto-Thatcherites go toe-to-toe with the pinko, leftie, Guardian reading union sympathisers).
I'm sure there are a lot of people - full disclosure: I'm one - who have various BA flights booked or about to be so for travel in the next month and would like to have a better understanding of what the timeframes are, what date are people broadly safe before, when is most likely and so on.
I'm planning on doing an ex-LIN to LAX on the 26th. Madness?
I'm sure there are a lot of people - full disclosure: I'm one - who have various BA flights booked or about to be so for travel in the next month and would like to have a better understanding of what the timeframes are, what date are people broadly safe before, when is most likely and so on.
I'm planning on doing an ex-LIN to LAX on the 26th. Madness?
Jan 15, 2007, 8:42 pm
#21
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Have holiday flights booked on BA Feb.22,23,26,27. Since I've been stranded by AA and AC strikes and whomever is striking at CDG every time I've flown through there I've pretty well written this trip off and will just accept my money back from BA and go at another time.