Originally Posted by
The Saint
Don't like it? Fly with someone else that allows you to turn up 10 minutes prior. It's really that simple.
Originally Posted by
mikoneill
Any extra stage in the Early Rise - Taxi/Tube - HEX - Security - Plane - Car Hire - 2 hr Drive, is un-welcome. The consequence is the Miles + TP don't seem so alluring and I go elsewhere. It's really that simple.
Originally Posted by
The Saint
If I had 500 BA Miles for every person who posts on here that they are never flying with BA again because <insert personal gripe>, then I'd be a BA Miles millionaire.
As a shareholder, I am more than confident that BA will lose very little business because of T-35. And what it does lose will be more than made up if T-35 means that BA achieves a punctuality record of which, for once, it can be proud. Perhaps then some of those who have flounced off to A. N. Other carrier that allows them to rock up at T-10 (only to be delayed while some visa crisis is sorted at the gate) might return.
Perhaps you're taking my personal example too literally. I'm not, as you suggest in your earlier post going to stop flying BA because I don't like the T-35 rule, it's just going to make it less appealing (also the extra 5-10 mins on the HEX to T5 doesn't help).
Choice of carriers will naturally depend on a whole host of factors including price, timings, routing, rewards, quality, etc etc. I hope as a shareholder you would want me to have BA as a preferred carrier for which I am willing to pay a premium?
I hope puntuality does improve. I hope that the people at T5 security will let me through at T-34 on the one occasion in a hundred when despite all planning and contingencies I arrive a minute past the cut off for my short flight to MXP (not in a DYKWIA way, in a "darn I'm having a bad day way, and wouldn't it be nice to get where I'm going on time"). I just think it will add extra, and probably unecessary, stress to a bad journey.