Originally Posted by
golfer20
Was on BA 827 DUB - LHR yesterday. Arrived at LHR, parked at the gate in T5A, and then sat there for an enternity. The jetbridge never connected to the plane - I was in seat 3A and could see the jetbridge still dark (no lights on).
About 10min into waiting, the pilot came on and said "This gate doesn't accept flights from Ireland, due to a special agreement the UK has with Ireland... Please stay seated, we are working on it." Another 30min later, we disembark from the rear aircraft door via staircase and then walk into the terminal normally. Best part, BA wasn't able to take our bags off the plane that evening and "kindly requested that passengers submit a baggage claim form and return to the airport tomorrow to retrieve their luggage."
- Anyone know what happened?
- Odds on compensation / avios?
I've had the reverse a couple of times when arriving on a domestic flight - "we have been allocated the Ireland and Jersey gate" - so this, also, ended up being disembarkation from the back of the plane as I think the route from that gate would have taken us through customs. To be fair I wouldn't have minded but rules is rules, so each time we had to wait about 30 minutes for the first bus and then about another 20 for enough buses to finally get to the CE pax. Longer to disembark than the length of the flight.