cumbrianbill

Just got back from a EDI-LGW-JER-LGW-EDI day trip. Travelled Monday before the fog.

The schedule changes meant that the trip that was originally a Saturday had to be moved to Monday.

Day turns not now bookable from EDI on Ba.com. Just about possible from GLA, but it's a long day!

Only available from elsewhere with a LHR - LGW shuffle.

Bill

T8191

EDI is our fallback TP run for a weekend. Unless BA makes the connections impossible, of course.

origin

http://www.britishairways.com/travel...s/public/en_gb

Key in the dates you want or need to travel.

T8191

And at the same time say where you're going. I want a timetable that says where I'm able to go, as well as when.

"Where can you take me, BA?"
"Where do you want to go?"
"So I have to ask, and then you can say no?"
"Something like that. So where do you want to go, and when?"
"I don't know. Where can you take me?"
"If you input your destination and date, we'll tell you whether you can."
<click> <rant>

origin

I know that, its difficult for the US. Where do they fly to. They use to do all that, back in the day. Now its all on computers.

T8191

Errr ... Yeah. Right. Whatever.

origin

In the 1990's they, BA use to provide all BAEC members with a nice little handbook. This had many things included especially timetables of all the flights, plane diagrams. 320 pages long with everything the BA customer needed.

kanderson1965

I'm with you on this one T8191, I still have my old copies of the National Rail timetable from when I was never off a train.
They make interesting reading, especially when you find a number of routes whose journey times have increased in recent years.

T8191

So my question is "Why is it so difficult to produce a tabulation accessible on-line of all the flight schedules, by route/destination or whichever? If it could be done on paper, why not electronically? "

Please, BA, don't start with asking me where I want to go if I'm looking for options where I can spend money with you.

dark_horse

Now, Mr T, you know I'm usually very sympathetic to your plights whether they be bad back, dodgy CW foot-stools or the unpredictable mood-swings of bears on-board...

In this case, however, selfishness gets the better of me. I actually prefer the winter LGW-JER schedule because the 2770 leaves at 08:35 instead of the ungodly summer time of 07:20. This means an extra hour in bed and a train from my local Sarf Lahndahn station instead of an unpredictable taxi. If the 2772 is leaving at 9am it means 10am at JER and only another half-an-hour to St Helier: plenty of time to conduct a day's worth of business and be back to the mainland on the last flight of the day.

It was, in fairness, a bit weird having a 07:20 flight and then nothing until midday.

So this gets a ^ from me. Sorry....

Swanhunter

Likewise. For those of us forced to do the occasional day trip the 9am departure from LGW is great.

xenole

The 8:25am to JER looks packed yet again so obviously no shortage in demand. 15 of us in 5 rows of CE and they''re still heading on to the back after 10-15mins.

T8191

Just finished a most constructive 29 minutes on the phone with a very helpful lady at BAEC, who has unravelled all the bookings and is re-ticketing. This has unravelled some of the mysteries, yet added others.

Here beginneth the [RANT].
So BA have shuffled the JER schedules for next May. As part of that process, they have renumbered the flights.
Originally we were booked on BA2772 LGW-JER at 1205.
On the new schedule, BA2772 departs at 0900 - the 1205 departure is now called BA2774.
So BA, in their 'wisdom', decided to leave us on the 2772 (which now fails to meet LHR_LGW MCT) instead of leaving us on the 1205 (as booked) but which is now called BA2774.

The same applied on the outbound - we were moved to the new time of the same flight number, instead of being moved to the new flight number at the original departure time!

Does BA think pax are emotionally attached to the number of their flight? Could they consider that it is actually the departure time pax are choosing, and have planned everything else around?
[/RANT]

Curiously, the flight times [following another dummy booking] have changed since my original post. They now appear to be (for May/Jun 2013) …

JER>LGW
0700 2769
0855 2771
1035 2773
1335 2775 - OP showed 1700
...
2010 2777

LGW>JER
0720 2770
0900 2772
1205 2774 - OP showed 1530
…
1830 2776
1920 2778

Still a rather skewed schedule, but much better than it was showing 3 days ago. Anyway, WARNING … check your JER bookings to ensure you are on the correct time rather than flight number.

Athlete95

Is this permanent from next May, or just for May itself? Doesn't make life any easier for me I must admit. I always catch the 5PM 2775 in summer...

FocalLength

One still has the ability to browse BA flight times at one's leisure: oneworld timetable pdf download available from http://www.oneworld.com/tools/downloadable-timetables/