Originally Posted by
shamrock712
Long time reader of flyertalk but first time poster here...the latest raft of booking changes has pushed me to action!
First off, I commute at least monthly between DUB and LHR, ay I had for Easter Monday. Previously booked to leave DUB at 19:30, now moved to a flight at 13:40..even though for that day theres a wild schedule curently on the booking engine with DUB-LHR departures at:
07:45
10:45
13:00
13:40
14:30
19:00
21:35
The same problem exists for all 6 flights I've booked, with all these changes they currently are all worthless to me. Thanks BMI, I'm sure a long protracted discussion with a call centre is forthcoming to look for a refund on all of these flights.
Lesson to me, EI are the only dependable choice for DUB-LHR. Apologies for the rant but for several years I've given BMI the benefit of the doubt when changes happened but this email assault and nonsense time changes and the hassle it creates negates any benefit of booking in advance in BMI.
Presumably due to the random allocation of flight numbers bmi has on this route. Defies all logic at times (most of the time?)
I still try to avoid EI as much as possible though, would rather have slightly less favourable times (if available...) than endure the green mile on departure and the risk of 27B. I'm hoping IAG will see value in allocating one or two more slots to DUB to create a well spaced out / useful schedule that will capture business traffic.