Originally Posted by
orbitmic
It's a very good thought corrupted by extremely lazy implementation. BA went for the easiest transfer which means from domestic as they therefore do not need to worry about security screening or immigration. As a result, they often have spare capacity and will give the jag transfer to some passengers with hours to transfer, and low status and travel class. At the exact same times, some GGL flying F on badly delayed first flights will be left to miss their flight with no help whatsoever. (of course, this can even affect the very same passengers facing a far more critical connection on their way back who won't answer why they were escorted outbound when they absolutely didn't need it and are left to hang like old socks on the way back where the priority transfer would have prevented them from missing their connection.
Welcome to BA's reality of half-baked measures, which is really a shame because if this were implemented well, this would bring BA at least closer to their big rivals AF and LH on some part of the F ground service experience. At the moment, this is absolutely not the case unless you come from a domestic flight which means only a small proportion of passengers in only one direction.
Bravo

You have very eloquently totally captured my frustration with 4 recent cross-terminal connections, all to or from international F, none of which provided a vehicle and one of which meant I misconnected and ended up with a 5-hour delay to final destination, incurring EU261 cost to BA.
It makes no sense to have this provided mainly to domestic connections, some of which *may* have been tagged on in order to get a cheaper fare anyway

(Sorry, OP, this isn't aimed at you BTW!)
Money would have been better spent providing working premium lanes at all stages of the normal flight connections process, rather than making an F connection indistinguishable from a Y one as it pretty much is at the moment.