Originally Posted by
groenroos
Faffing around with gates will sometimes happen, but this bit made me raise my eyebrow a bit. It's a 90-110 minute drive to Heathrow from mine, not sure I'd be best pleased to be "kindly requested" to spend half the next day fetching a bag they botched to begin with (not to mention paying parking charges at the airport)... is there really no compensation for this, even for expenses incurred?

Normally you would ask BA to courier it to you at their expense. What they sometimes do is offer the next day option for self collection and then any bag not picked up is put into the courier system.