CCR Today
Jan 22, 2018, 12:08 am
#62
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Another early Monday visit to CCR - First Wing rammed at 05.45 with queue back to secondary boarding pass check. Flounce busy and CCR busiest I’ve seen this year on a Monday but seated and fed in an efficient and friendly way - been noticeably warmer service since start of new year but I didn’t travel lots in December so may have started earlier.
Jun 2, 2018, 12:03 am
#64
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Just reviving thread to rant about the incredibly loud snoring in the CCR - guy asleep (lying full length) on couch beside the dining area. I know it’s early, but c’mon - isn’t that why BA has the cabanas?
Jun 2, 2018, 12:17 am
#65
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agreed though sadly it’s often hard/impossible to book a cabana in the early morning on busy days.
Jun 2, 2018, 12:18 am
#66
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If it's any consolation, if he's that asleep possible he misses his flight...
Jun 2, 2018, 12:22 am
#67
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@ lorcancoyle - oh how I am with you on this one.
He should be awoken and told it’s simply not acceptable in the CCR. But told by BA personnel - not by other pax.
Just what have BA got to lose by imposing some sort of basic, minimum standards in a case like this ?? They might damage the feelings of just one (selfish) individual, but I venture to say they would win the goodwill, support, and appreciation of many others.
Imagine somebody behaving like this just outside the afternoon tea room at Claridge’s.
He should be awoken and told it’s simply not acceptable in the CCR. But told by BA personnel - not by other pax.
Just what have BA got to lose by imposing some sort of basic, minimum standards in a case like this ?? They might damage the feelings of just one (selfish) individual, but I venture to say they would win the goodwill, support, and appreciation of many others.
Imagine somebody behaving like this just outside the afternoon tea room at Claridge’s.
Jun 2, 2018, 1:10 am
#68
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Jun 2, 2018, 1:49 am
#69
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Jun 2, 2018, 3:03 am
#70
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Managed all of 5 mins in the CCR this morning due to it taking more than an hour to get across from T3. Two buses, long long queues, no fast track at N security and all in paid F. What a wonderful service
Jun 2, 2018, 3:12 am
#71
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In the mornings generally, and particularly during school holiday peaks, you're best off going via the UK border e-gates, out to landside and then the First Wing.
Jun 2, 2018, 3:21 am
#72
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phew! Glad it wasn’t just me. He was winding me up, but I’m aware I’m less tolerant of slipping standards than many! However, treating the CCR as a youth hostel and racking out on the sofas surrounded by a mess of your personal possessions is disrespectful to fellow passengers in my mind - particularly when cabanas are available. Fortunately I was just passing through; and it would have been unfair to expect the staff to wake up and move him ......
Jun 2, 2018, 3:44 am
#73
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Transfers from T5 to T3 are even worse as any attempt to exit to reenter is punishing and as HAL employees have a very bad tendency to send non priority passengers to flood the priority queue if the former looks busy so that the latter frequently becomes wholly ineffective.
So personally, I fully agree with ThatT1Feeling and think that it is high time BA started to invest some thought in the experience of transfer passengers (again, except from domestic which is generally well taken care of in my view)
Jun 2, 2018, 3:50 am
#74
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Hi,
The transfer process from T3 to T5 can be poor. we arrived from HKG with CX at about 0625 at the end of april and there was a massive queue ( 4-5 full length lines at the flight connections point to wait for buses to T5). To be fair to HAL more buses came shortly after the bus left so it was about a 15-20min wait.
at T5 border control for domestic flights ( even the e gates ) looked long so my mother and I went landside at T5 then through the first wing.
Regards
TBS
The transfer process from T3 to T5 can be poor. we arrived from HKG with CX at about 0625 at the end of april and there was a massive queue ( 4-5 full length lines at the flight connections point to wait for buses to T5). To be fair to HAL more buses came shortly after the bus left so it was about a 15-20min wait.
at T5 border control for domestic flights ( even the e gates ) looked long so my mother and I went landside at T5 then through the first wing.
Regards
TBS
Last edited by The _Banking_Scot; Jun 2, 2018 at 3:55 am
Jun 2, 2018, 4:22 am
#75
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