Originally Posted by kered
Therein lies the problem, outside of the FT BA board, the general public, planning their trips away this summer, are just hearing that there's more trouble afoot in BA & that CC have rejected some offer or another. They don't care a jot about the intricacies of the matter, they just see BA as being unreliable for the foreseeable future. So they will not risk their holidays by booking BA this year.
Originally Posted by
Tumbleweed666
Pretty much anyone going on holiday with BA for this summer will have booked months ago, you dont book your fortnight in Malaga or Orlando with spouse equivalent and 2.4 kids, with only a couple of weeks to go, its too expensive and most of the flights and hotels you'd want will already be booked.
Anyone booking for NEXT summer can't yet, and all the strikers (if there are any) will have been sacked by the time they get round to booking for next summer towards the tail end of this year.
Well in our case, we've booked for MCO in November just a couple of weeks ago, a trip that was going to be a BA CW trip but now isn't. Also booked at the same time is another TATL in J for Feb 2011, again now booked with another airline. So while you're certainly correct that most family summer trips are booked booked months in advance, others are done much closer to the date too & it's the booking of those ones, that will be viewed under the cloud of uncertainty. As will, I suspect, quite an amount of corporate / business trips
But hey hum, at the end of the day, I realise that we're only two out of many million BA PAX, but that said I somehow doubt though, that we are alone in our thinking.