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Old Jan 1, 2016 | 8:10 am
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Originally Posted by flatlander
Usually the staff at Schiphol seem to take delight in announcing "Passenger Joe Bloggs on Elbonian Airways to Elbonia, immediate boarding at gate F67, your baggage will be offloaded" before taking you off the flight.
I suspect BA consider you to have been sufficiently punished already.
Oh it was worse than that, though it's actually a computer sending it out: “Joe Bloggs you are DELAYING the flight. Please board at gate D52 or we will proceed to offload your luggage!" I am not sure I've heard the Dutch language version for a while but that's even worse "Pik van Uittenbroek - u vertraagt de vlucht!" I once got pinged by this, even though I was on the airbridge, since the agent hadn't scanned my boarding pass properly. I did vaguely consider asking the airport authorities to broadcast a correction notice a week later.

I agree that BA's moral compass won't be badly disturbed by this, if they can find it.
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