BA 100 - 100 seats for £100 each-way [promotion period 21-24 January 2019]
Jan 24, 2019, 5:22 am
#258
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: London, ARN, HEL, ..... or MAN
Programs: BA GGL / GFL, Mucci Diamond!, HH Diamond, Radisson Premium, IHG Gold, Hertz Gold
Posts: 5,874
There are some great website queuing platforms available which BA could have used in this instance - either a queue to join the site or a configurable time in which you have to select and pay for your tickets before you get kicked out. We have implemented this for a lot of clients who have high traffic on Black Friday. If BA are going to persist with this kind of stunt, they should invest in something which makes the customer experience more palatable and informed.
Last edited by ThatT1Feeling; Jan 24, 2019 at 5:37 am Reason: Typo
Jan 24, 2019, 5:31 am
#263
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Multiple
Programs: BAEC Gold, IHG Spire, Accor Gold, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Titanium
Posts: 285
Jan 24, 2019, 5:32 am
#264
Join Date: Mar 2015
Programs: BA GGL
Posts: 2,447
It's just a massive PR stunt anyway. By that measure it's clearly a success, despite IT shortcomings.
Jan 24, 2019, 5:34 am
#265
Join Date: Jul 2016
Programs: BA Bronze SPG
Posts: 273
Crashed out...
One upset friend who doesn’t get much opportunity to get away - she was paying for them and the the website crashed!! Poor show from BA.
Another friend lucky enough to get 2 tix to Rio yesterday. But yeah - BA needs to do something about these offers which cause the website to crash instantaneously!
Another friend lucky enough to get 2 tix to Rio yesterday. But yeah - BA needs to do something about these offers which cause the website to crash instantaneously!
Jan 24, 2019, 5:36 am
#266
Join Date: May 2018
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 219
I went one step further and continued to payment - even went through to the AMEX authorisation. But the flights were "sold out" by the time it tried to confirm.
Jan 24, 2019, 5:37 am
#267
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2014
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 12,237
One upset friend who doesn’t get much opportunity to get away - she was paying for them and the the website crashed!! Poor show from BA.
Another friend lucky enough to get 2 tix to Rio yesterday. But yeah - BA needs to do something about these offers which cause the website to crash instantaneously!
Another friend lucky enough to get 2 tix to Rio yesterday. But yeah - BA needs to do something about these offers which cause the website to crash instantaneously!
Jan 24, 2019, 5:39 am
#268
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold / OW Emerald
Posts: 753
Bagged a quick return to PHL, so that's a total of two returns for me, pretty nice considering it booked in the M bucket. Only sad I didn't get much luck with exit window seats, but I can live with that.
Jan 24, 2019, 5:41 am
#269
Formerly known as joannerose66
Join Date: Mar 2014
Programs: Gold BA Exec, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 116
Woah, I'm going to Barbados......
I swear my heart stopped beating as I waited for the payment to go through. I'm taking my lovely Mum for a well deserved break mid March and I couldn't be happier.
Condolences to those who didn't get lucky
Jan 24, 2019, 5:44 am
#270
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Hertfordshire
Programs: BA Gold, Accor Diamond, IHG Diamond
Posts: 553
I don't know how people knew what exact dates to search for in order to return an instant positive result.