I was on the ba217 on Saturday. They had a fault on an engine.
initially looked like they didn’t have a spare part but then found one in a hanger. Turned out this was the wrong part. Crew went out of hours but they got permission to extended. They then found another part and this was correct. We were on board for 5hrs before we left LHR 10mins before the 5pm iad flight. We were lucky to fly as it looked likely it was going to get canned. It was indeed a creeping delay, always ‘we will know more in 20mins’. They also re-catered the plane part way thru
The later flight arrived 20mins after us and found a full A380 worth of passengers at immigration (I had some colleagues on it and it took them 2hrs to clear, I was thru the airport in 20min inc hold luggage)
Last edited by Tim_T; Nov 17, 2019 at 4:03 pm