Originally Posted by ISTFlyer

I have flown this route on a heavily delayed departure this week on an A380 and guess what, yes, the incoming aircraft was late and BA communicated us that before via text and e-mail, however, there was about an hour between when the first crew and the last crew boarded as apparently some of them were pretty busy shopping at the duty free or grabbing a drink from Starbucks which has a 25-30 customer line.

In addition to what the OP mentioned, I got nothing onboard as a GGL greeting as well as nothing on the ground by anyone at BA and boarding was a disaster where we boarded 30 minutes later than the boarding time on the gate boards, Group 1 and 2 were held 20 minutes between the boarding pass / facial recognition scanners and the jet bridges and boarding didn't end for a long time. The only positive aspect of LAX was the QF First Lounge but BA not communicating the departure time to the lounge and the lounge FIDS managed by QF not having the updated boarding and departure time, caused many people unnecessarily to leave the lounge early and queue up at the gate.

While the crew didn't have any negative onboard, they simply did their job, was nice and calm towards passengers worried about their allergies and missed connections ( they just told most of them to go to Heathrow T5A flight connections ).