Random message on App
Apr 17, 2018, 2:31 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Ayrshire
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, IHG Spire Ambassador, HH Diamond, Scandic Top Floor
Posts: 139
Random message on App
“BA1498 now boarding at gate A19” has pooped up on my IPad and IPhone, I don’t fly for another 3 days and it isn’t on this flight. What would cause this .
Regards
DtB
Regards
DtB
Apr 17, 2018, 2:56 pm
#3
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Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Ayrshire
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, IHG Spire Ambassador, HH Diamond, Scandic Top Floor
Posts: 139
Nothing I can think off, last flew this flight on 2nd Apr and everything seems to have posted ok from it, next due to fly it next week.
DtB
DtB
Apr 17, 2018, 10:09 pm
#4
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 6,349
Apr 17, 2018, 10:50 pm
#5
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: near Heathrow
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, GfL (OWE), SA LifePlat (*G), BD Gold to the end, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 2,911
I've had it where I've cancelled an RFS booking within the 24 hour cooling period and I had to phone to do that. They create a ghost sector, I guess while they process the cancellation manually but at some future point I get an app message to tell me my flight's boarding, the same route but a later date. In MMB the booking ref stays live for a few days with a note (I think) saying 'there are no flights associated with this booking' or something about processing a cancellation.
Apr 18, 2018, 1:54 am
#7
Join Date: May 2007
Programs: BA GFL. AA EXP. Amex Plat. Mucci.
Posts: 187
Flight bookings data on the BA app is not updated in the same way as the website MMB; cancelled, changed, or ghost bookings often remain on the app for many months until the date of the booking has passed; I have several of these on my BA app as I write this. If the incorrect booking is on the APP it will still issue boarding and check-in messages automatically. Just ignore.
Last edited by themax; Apr 18, 2018 at 1:55 am Reason: grammar
Apr 18, 2018, 1:59 am
#8
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Manchester, UK.
Programs: BAEC Silver, then a handful of points on everything else.
Posts: 185
This probably needs to be merged with the App thread, but it happens -- even without ghost bookings or cancelled bookings. I've not had it for a little while, but about twice a year or so I'll get boarding alerts for a flight I've never even contemplated taking, and have no other flights about the same time.
Apr 18, 2018, 4:55 pm
#9
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Ayrshire
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, IHG Spire Ambassador, HH Diamond, Scandic Top Floor
Posts: 139
I've had it where I've cancelled an RFS booking within the 24 hour cooling period and I had to phone to do that. They create a ghost sector, I guess while they process the cancellation manually but at some future point I get an app message to tell me my flight's boarding, the same route but a later date. In MMB the booking ref stays live for a few days with a note (I think) saying 'there are no flights associated with this booking' or something about processing a cancellation.
Thanks for clearing this up, it did give me a fright last night as I thought I had made a mistake with this weeks bookings and should have already been at the ai4port.
Cheers
DtB