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Old Dec 3, 2023 | 5:23 am
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Originally Posted by South London Bon Viveur
I was called by BA Customer Services after exactly this scenario (and a subsequent notification by me to CS) and the friendly helpful agent did very strongly hint that this is a known issue, that it is not working and that they are feeding back to management. I imagine that BA will have the financial metrics available to work out the cost versus the benefit including stats for people that could have claimed IDB, but didn't.
problem is the cost for IDB claims and hotels won’t be coming out of the same budget so successfully reduced with this change in flight management. I bet some manager has ticked the box of reducing their costs at the expense of new costs being incurred elsewhere. BA from my pov looks like a classic case of a company where each management team works in their own little silos, meeting targets to reduce costs without any care about the impact elsewhere.

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