BA flight (op WDL Aviation) lands in Edinburgh instead of Dusseldorf by mistake
#136
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Economy, mostly :(
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 7,801
Your suggestion that the despatcher may be at fault implies that there is a cross check system, and that there was a mess up this time in inplementing it. Your earlier reply suggested that there is no cross-check, that the plane/pilots plan and the ground crews plan are in isolation.
I'm speculating as much as anyone, with the addition of my knowledge of flight plan filing based in being a private pilot who has completed and filed flight plans. Those systems are run by ATC which is why my supposition that there's no connection. You can try poke holes in my speculation but since that's all it is it gets us nowhere nearer the truth
#137
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: PVD
Programs: Delta PM, HHonors Diamond (Aspire)
Posts: 294
Someone I know was on this flight and she said they sent out an email offering 10k avios. That seems quite low (but maybe I am spoiled by the US). Does anyone have ideas about the contact person in corporate she could escalate to? Or is complaining not in the Britons' nature like it is here?
Also, she said there were no pre-flight announcements once on the plane left the gate.
-DD
Also, she said there were no pre-flight announcements once on the plane left the gate.
-DD
#138
Join Date: Oct 2016
Posts: 698
I guess there are still lots of questions.
In the old days, the gate staff would be rushing to print off the passenger list on dot matrix printers as boarding was finishing. The many-folded paper would be torn of triumphantly - no jams, this time - and rushed to the aircraft.
Presumably this passenger list would have the flight number and destination on it.
What is the modern equivalent of this, especially when wet lease staff have no BA iPads/technology?
In the old days, the gate staff would be rushing to print off the passenger list on dot matrix printers as boarding was finishing. The many-folded paper would be torn of triumphantly - no jams, this time - and rushed to the aircraft.
Presumably this passenger list would have the flight number and destination on it.
What is the modern equivalent of this, especially when wet lease staff have no BA iPads/technology?
#139
Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 2,015
#140
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Economy, mostly :(
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 7,801
I guess there are still lots of questions.
In the old days, the gate staff would be rushing to print off the passenger list on dot matrix printers as boarding was finishing. The many-folded paper would be torn of triumphantly - no jams, this time - and rushed to the aircraft.
Presumably this passenger list would have the flight number and destination on it.
What is the modern equivalent of this, especially when wet lease staff have no BA iPads/technology?
In the old days, the gate staff would be rushing to print off the passenger list on dot matrix printers as boarding was finishing. The many-folded paper would be torn of triumphantly - no jams, this time - and rushed to the aircraft.
Presumably this passenger list would have the flight number and destination on it.
What is the modern equivalent of this, especially when wet lease staff have no BA iPads/technology?
#141
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Tyrone,EU
Programs: Avios Hunter
Posts: 2,803
No. Despatcher that I am referring to is the person at WDL Ops that generates the flight plan based on loads and winds and files it. Not the gate agent who is also sometimes referred to as the dispatcdispatcher.
I'm speculating as much as anyone, with the addition of my knowledge of flight plan filing based in being a private pilot who has completed and filed flight plans. Those systems are run by ATC which is why my supposition that there's no connection. You can try poke holes in my speculation but since that's all it is it gets us nowhere nearer the truth
I'm speculating as much as anyone, with the addition of my knowledge of flight plan filing based in being a private pilot who has completed and filed flight plans. Those systems are run by ATC which is why my supposition that there's no connection. You can try poke holes in my speculation but since that's all it is it gets us nowhere nearer the truth
#143
Join Date: Jul 2016
Posts: 143
I think FR were just jealous that they werent being talked about. So the story becomes about them, and their cheap fares.
The BBC story was second-most read, at some stage.
Which was some nice free publicity.