Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
Missed opportunity I would say. Broadly a coach hire is £100 an hour, perhaps a bit more late at night, so let's say £200 for the 75 minute trip, but BA is OK to pay £50 for taxi fees - and sometimes more - for those sent to SEN or STN needing to get to London. So really it would save BA money to have such a coach on standby. However, there will be people like me who won't want to wait until the last person with a non European passport has negotiated entry into the UK from the friendly officers of the Border Force, collected vast amounts of checked luggage, had a smoke, gone to the WC (etc) who would therefore wreck the economics.
Would you wait on the coach for other passengers if they offered complimentary WiFi and complimentary tea/ coffee/ water?
What happens at AGP when a BA GIB flight is diverted because of high winds, are coaches provided?