Originally Posted by
neel1987
Yes - plucked out of air (hence 'For Example').. what I'm trying to get at is that if the service is not broken up as a % then the actual cost is for example £50 for the service + £450 extra profit which is profiteering.
No, the airline industry just doesn't work like this, nor is this sort of attempt at analysis going to get you anywhere. You pay the fare you choose to pay. The bigger the fare, the more profit the airline is making from it. If you think the profit is too big, then don't buy the ticket.
Originally Posted by
neel1987
I flew the same route 2 days earlier and the return leg was almost cancelled due to bad weather but then we ended up flying with a delay... so somebody is making the decisions for us to get on the plane in bad weather so shouldn't they be accountable when it goes wrong? Somebody pointed out that the weather was forecasted to be bad.. yes it was... it was also forecast much worse on the Friday than the Wednesday flight so why did I fly on Friday but almost have it cancelled pre-flight on Wednesday?
Sorry, I'm not quite sure whether you're complaining about actually flying on Friday. Are you saying that you would have preferred to have been cancelled on Friday? Or, for that matter, that you would have preferred to have been cancelled on Wednesday? This is not making any sense.
Originally Posted by
neel1987
Please don't get hung up on the fact that I was at least taken to the vicinity of London .. that is not what I paid for. I could have flown fly Be out of another 'London' airport for a lot less but it is much less convenient for me therefore I chose Heathrow, and paid for Heathrow.
If arriving at Stansted was a lot less convenient for you than arriving at Heathrow, then you could have been taken to Heathrow at BA's expense. It was entirely your choice to not complete your journey to Heathrow.
If you are trying to argue that with a Newcastle-Heathrow ticket, you are entitled to a complete refund of the ticket if the BA flight diverts to anywhere other than Heathrow, simply because you were ultimately not flown to Heathrow - then dream on.