Ask the BA Staffer and Heathrow ATC
Dec 4, 2011, 2:09 pm
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Dec 4, 2011, 2:14 pm
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ATC have no say in stand allocation. Where the outbound a/c departs from is sometimes a fixed value; it's where that aircraft parked from its last flight if it's on a turnaround, and that stand is usually allocated on which stand is free when it lands (or is next to be free - with some consideration to connecting passengers or high yield flights).
At the beginning of the day there will be a grand 'stand plan' for T5 for the whole day (as there is for the other LHR terminals - BA handle the stand allocation plan for T5, BAA do the other terminals), but that is based on a 'perfect world' of everything arrivimng and departing on schedule. As with any plan, they rarely survive contact with the enemy!
ATC have no say in stand allocation. Where the outbound a/c departs from is sometimes a fixed value; it's where that aircraft parked from its last flight if it's on a turnaround, and that stand is usually allocated on which stand is free when it lands (or is next to be free - with some consideration to connecting passengers or high yield flights).
At the beginning of the day there will be a grand 'stand plan' for T5 for the whole day (as there is for the other LHR terminals - BA handle the stand allocation plan for T5, BAA do the other terminals), but that is based on a 'perfect world' of everything arrivimng and departing on schedule. As with any plan, they rarely survive contact with the enemy!
I am sure it is just coincidence, but it seems I never board l/h from 5A, it always seems to be B or C. Do BA allocate specific l/h destinations to A? Anyone from BA care to comment?
Dec 4, 2011, 2:29 pm
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Dec 4, 2011, 2:33 pm
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Dec 4, 2011, 2:47 pm
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Dec 4, 2011, 2:58 pm
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After a particularly bumpy 916 to FRA this evening and many people "wearing" their drinks, can crew request extra attention from the cleaners ? Tomato juice up the cabin wall (guilty) does look awfully messy 
I guess it's easier if the aircraft is making a night stop, as I suspect mine will, arriving at 22.00.
I guess it's easier if the aircraft is making a night stop, as I suspect mine will, arriving at 22.00.
Dec 4, 2011, 2:58 pm
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Dec 4, 2011, 3:47 pm
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After a particularly bumpy 916 to FRA this evening and many people "wearing" their drinks, can crew request extra attention from the cleaners ? Tomato juice up the cabin wall (guilty) does look awfully messy
I guess it's easier if the aircraft is making a night stop, as I suspect mine will, arriving at 22.00.
I guess it's easier if the aircraft is making a night stop, as I suspect mine will, arriving at 22.00.
Dec 4, 2011, 3:57 pm
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After a particularly bumpy 916 to FRA this evening and many people "wearing" their drinks, can crew request extra attention from the cleaners ? Tomato juice up the cabin wall (guilty) does look awfully messy
I guess it's easier if the aircraft is making a night stop, as I suspect mine will, arriving at 22.00.
I guess it's easier if the aircraft is making a night stop, as I suspect mine will, arriving at 22.00.
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Dec 4, 2011, 4:02 pm
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Thanks for the quick reply.
There were a lot of spilt drinks and we did the best we could with a small pack of tissues, but it's going to be pretty grim in the morning if it's not attended too.
Going OT, it was the worst turbulence I've experienced in 30 year of flying. The FO told us it didn't appear on the weather radar as was a surprise to everyone. Flying glasses, screaming pax and very messy
Probably only 3/10 on the whatever scale, but scared the bejesus out of me ! Didn't last too long though.
There were a lot of spilt drinks and we did the best we could with a small pack of tissues, but it's going to be pretty grim in the morning if it's not attended too.
Going OT, it was the worst turbulence I've experienced in 30 year of flying. The FO told us it didn't appear on the weather radar as was a surprise to everyone. Flying glasses, screaming pax and very messy
Probably only 3/10 on the whatever scale, but scared the bejesus out of me ! Didn't last too long though.
Dec 4, 2011, 5:08 pm
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I doubt your the only one.
As a Pax, I hate the filth on some of them yuk
As a Pax, I hate the filth on some of them yuk
Dec 4, 2011, 5:47 pm
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Thanks for the quick reply.
There were a lot of spilt drinks and we did the best we could with a small pack of tissues, but it's going to be pretty grim in the morning if it's not attended too.
Going OT, it was the worst turbulence I've experienced in 30 year of flying. The FO told us it didn't appear on the weather radar as was a surprise to everyone. Flying glasses, screaming pax and very messy Probably only 3/10 on the whatever scale, but scared the bejesus out of me ! Didn't last too long though.
There were a lot of spilt drinks and we did the best we could with a small pack of tissues, but it's going to be pretty grim in the morning if it's not attended too.
Going OT, it was the worst turbulence I've experienced in 30 year of flying. The FO told us it didn't appear on the weather radar as was a surprise to everyone. Flying glasses, screaming pax and very messy
Probably only 3/10 on the whatever scale, but scared the bejesus out of me ! Didn't last too long though.
That was LAN btw.....
Dec 5, 2011, 8:43 pm
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Okay... Q for the ground and/or cabin crew.
I like to keep my boarding passes as a souvenir of my flight. So why is it that sometimes they have to be torn off at boarding and sometimes not? And why is it sometimes the big end that gets torn off and sometimes the little end? (Don't get me started on tearing them off just to mark coats in the wardrobe
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I like to keep my boarding passes as a souvenir of my flight. So why is it that sometimes they have to be torn off at boarding and sometimes not? And why is it sometimes the big end that gets torn off and sometimes the little end? (Don't get me started on tearing them off just to mark coats in the wardrobe
)
Dec 5, 2011, 10:20 pm
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Okay... Q for the ground and/or cabin crew.
I like to keep my boarding passes as a souvenir of my flight. So why is it that sometimes they have to be torn off at boarding and sometimes not? And why is it sometimes the big end that gets torn off and sometimes the little end? (Don't get me started on tearing them off just to mark coats in the wardrobe)
I like to keep my boarding passes as a souvenir of my flight. So why is it that sometimes they have to be torn off at boarding and sometimes not? And why is it sometimes the big end that gets torn off and sometimes the little end? (Don't get me started on tearing them off just to mark coats in the wardrobe
)Other than that there's really no rhyme or reason on what part of the boarding pass is returned. Maybe the big stub...maybe the small stub. There isn't, from what I'm aware a standard BA policy on this.
Dec 6, 2011, 3:08 am
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I don't know if I've ever had a large part returned and the stub retained - I presume this is a hangover from the past, as from the olden days the big bit had the ticket coupon tucked into it.