Originally Posted by
The _Banking_Scot
Hi,
A couple of years ago in Las Vegas I got a text message from BA advising that the flight back to london was delayed by 3hrs ( from 8pm to 11pm and gave a new check in closing time of 1 hr prior to the new departure time).
In this case as the plane has to come in from London and it specifically mentions a new time you can get to the airport later .
Regards
TBS
Nice to share your experience. There probably is a BA routine for this. The same thing happened to me some 3 years ago, returning from DFW. Without the text message, clearly stating new check-in time, I would not have dared showing up but for the original time.
At LHR, however, I've had many delayed departure messages later being overridden by the sudden appearance of a substitute aircraft, just pushing ETD +15 min etc, so there is a situation where you might regret not having checked in already.