What about feeling sorry for us poor passengers.

It’s easy for all those based in the UK to say it’s a good thing that EI are leaving OW. But consider for a moment that for those of us who originate our travels here in Ireland, that EI is really the only realistic way of getting to LHR so that we can connect with BA, VS or whoever. With the complete destruction of EI as a real airline, it looks like that we will no longer be able to interline baggage to an onward carrier at LHR. They (EI) have already reduced their interline agreements substantially, with BA thankfully being one of the few remaining airlines, for the moment.

Also we won’t be able to have our BA BP’s issued at DUB or ORK. So we could end up having to claim baggage at T1 then trek over to T3 or T4 & check-in all over again, adding hours to our connection times, in an already stressed Heathrow !!! In some case it may necessitate having to fly out to London the evening before if our onward flight is an early departure out of LHR. This will not only add substantially to the hassle of our travels, but add in the extortionist cost of LHR hotels to our budget.

The same would apply for a return journey. So after arriving in from a long haul flight in the wee hours of the morning, we could be faced with dragging ourselves & our bags back to T1 to check in with EI again.

Then of course there would be the consideration of baggage allowances. The Club World allowance is considerably more than EI’s, which is fine at the moment as EI honour the CW allowances, when a booking is made with BA & they are only providing the feeder flights. But what will happen when these agreements cease ??

There we’ll be having paid thousands for a CW flight, but will have to pay EI to have our bags brought to & from LHR.

It’s obvious that EI want only point to point traffic, but what does the future hold for connecting passengers ??? Or those who don’t want to fly with EI across the Atlantic, in their over priced, vastly inferior, so called premier cabin. Instead preferring to pay way less for a superior product such as BA’s WTP or CW !!

I really feel the outlook is very bleak for those of us stuck here on this island, with our only option of getting off, lying with LCC’s who don’t give a hoot about passenger convenience or service.

I fear for my future travels & the hassle, inconvenience & stress that’s going to foisted on me.

Those of you in the UK, who see EI as a pimple on the backside of OW & don’t rely on them to get you to LHR so you can travel the world with BA, please consider us here in Ireland for a moment & rest easy in knowledge that it’s not going to affect you, like it’s going affect us.