I arrived in LHR on Friday with a little over an hours delayon a Bmi flight comnnecting later in the day to Manchester. I couldn't believe the scenes in T1. I have never seen so many people waiting patiently to be re-ticketed.

Anyway I headed off for a meeting in london only to receive a call from a BA friend "advising" me to get back to LHR asap as the whole domestic schedule was about to be cancelled. On my return to LHR the situation was quite honestly out of control. I had a boarding pass and made it into domestic departures at around 12:15 That's when they made the announcement that ALL BA domestic flights for the remainder of the day were cancelled.........

I shot into the Bmi lounge and noticed that they were still operating most flights though with a delay of around an hour or so. I asked to be moved to the first flight and was placed on standby. Twenty minutes to go and I was handed a new BP and off I went. Bmi cancelled the later flight I was scheduled to take though they still managed to operate a decent schedule.

Bmi at least managed an operation of sorts with perhaps two out of three flights operating but as for BA? Has the cost cutting gone too far?