Reedy

Thanks for you advice. Already had the chat from the Mrs "you should of booked Virgin"

AussieDreamer

Got the following info on MMB.

Your flights are currently planned to operate as normal.
During the strike period you may experience a different level of onboard service or your flight may be cancelled.
Next to both outbound(between strike date flight on non-strike day) and inbound (strike date flight) the status reads "Subject to possible disruption"

Arghhhh...

lozza1974

Haha, funniest thing I've read in a while...probably because I have had the very same earache

Reedy

AussieDreamer, any news from MMB regarding the 19.20 flight to Capetown on the 22nd.

Many Thank

Reedy

courtster

Good of BMI to publicly offer its assistance I thought. I wonder if beardy will make a similar statement?

The larger BMI statement also says that BAEC Gold and Silver cardholders flying with them will be able to use the BMI lounges.

Speedbird279

Maybe someone can just clear the following up for me.

Reading the - Rebooking and refund options for proposed strike dates page on ba.com

Until we finalise our flying schedule, if you are booked to travel between 19 and 31 March 2010 and wish to change your travel plans you can:

* Rebook to travel on another BA flight on the same route up to 355 days in the future at no extra charge, subject to availability.

OR

* Cancel your booking and obtain a refund to the original form of payment. This option will only be available until we have finalised our flying schedule.


Is that basically saying that untill the have sorted out which flights will & wont fly, i can now get a full refund and maybe re-book with another airline, even though my flight hasnt actually been cancelled yet. As i usually thought BA didnt refund non-refunable tickets untill the flight was cancelled.

UKTraveller4Fun

Got to love the unions, try and make out they are being thoughtful by not striking over Easter but truth is many people take their holidays over the 2 weeks of Easter not just the Easter Weekend so by striking on the 27th they are affecting peoples plans just as much if not more so! They may not spoil some peoples long weekend plans to Europe, but most people going longhaul will be doing it for a full week or two and this strike ruins their holidays!

My wife is a teacher so yes this affects me, we are meant to be travelling on the 27th to JNB. After speaking to You First he could not say the flight would be running but thought it is a high probability it will be and they will have everything confirmed on Monday so best to wait until then and call back.

He was very apologetic and while didnt give comment on his opinion of the unions he still made his opinion very clear which I get the feeling is the same opinion held by many BA non cabin crew staff!

Earthman

This is dreadfull.
I'm due to fly on the 26th which is not a strike date and I'm also getting that message.

When are we going to be told?

My present flights suit me,I don't want to change if I don't have to.

LeisureFirst

On the 26th you should be safe whatever your route is. I wouldn't worry to much about it. They're probably just trying to give nervoux pax a few options, and in the process free up some seats on the non-strike days

Me too. But if I move my flights I'll probably get double BA miles and TPs. Wonder if they'll let me move to a different flight time on the same day. I'd actually quite like to fly back 40 minutes sooner - but they didn't have availability in the right fare class when I originally booked. According to the rules, I should be able to move.

all ahead full

Just spoken to BA, I fly on the 31st to Miami from LHR, and it 'should' run, also on the basis that they will cancel short haul domestic first, followed by European, and that the long haul flight will be the last to be cancelled.

There is also something on the table, so the strike, may still be averted, so here's hoping.....

AAF

Christian K

do you think it is going to be possible to switch the outbound date to an earlier one? I am booked BUD-LHR-JFK on 27 march...

meester69

hmm, we're booked on BA11 to Singapore on 29th. Do the same planes continue on to Oz?

Is this likely to be cancelled?

I want to book a connecting flight on the 30th, within a few hours of scheduled landing in SIN, but it seems very risky at this point.

where next

I do hope any stand-in CC have been fully trained on resetting the AVOD, this seems to be a vital part of the normal crews duties. Cold food only (no birdseed please) I can put up with for a 12.55hr day flight back from PVG, but no movies!

Gaz

I'm booked on the 19th, the day before the strike starts proper, and my flight has the 'subject to possible disruption' status in MMB.

Flight is MAD-MAN and it is absolutely essential I am back in MAN on the Friday, even if it meant chartering private :s

Getting my TA to book a flexible emergency flight, but does anyone have any idea or experience to guess whether flights the day before really will be affected that heavily?

johnaalex

Me and my wife are due to fly home from CPT on the 20th so I am hoping that the flight will go ahead on the basis that the plane should have left LHR on the 19th with a crew as that is not a strike day.

We are in F on reward seats so I hope we will get some compensation if there are no meals.

I hope they do not use the voucher scheme they used during the Gate Gormless Affair when I had about 100 USD to spend at Burger King in LAX