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Outstation lounges on strike days
I'm at FCO awaiting my flight to LCY (rearranged from LGW) in a couple of hours. Surprised to find that the BA lounge is closed. While there are no LHR and LGW bound flights from here today, flights to LCY are operating (as well as other OW flights, presumably) - so seems a bit ridiculous that the lounge is closed. Is it BA policy to not operate any lounges on strike days such as today?
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A shame to hear this; certainly there is a lunge upon at T5 for the few passengers who are flying today. Did they tell you in advance? I would definitely ensure you follow this up, perhaps twitter might be the way to go with a good phot of the closed lounge to gain traction. |
How many lounge eligible passengers would there be on a 98 seat aircraft? (considering it is a strike day, probably more than 'normal'), but even if it was a third of the aircraft, I don't think opening the lounge would be wise just for one flight.
That being said, provision should be made by way of vouchers or some such in my opinion. |
AMS lounge is open today for LCY flights. It was delightfully quiet as a result. |
I imagine to mitigate losses today a lot of cost cutting has been made; saw catering was also reduced last night in CE flights.
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Originally Posted by rossmacd
(Post 31505927)
How many lounge eligible passengers would there be on a 98 seat aircraft? (considering it is a strike day, probably more than 'normal'), but even if it was a third of the aircraft, I don't think opening the lounge would be wise just for one flight.
That being said, provision should be made by way of vouchers or some such in my opinion. i don’t know FCO well, are there other OW lounges? Presumably there are other OW flights? |
With workers rights in Europe I don't imagine they can be forced off work unpaid at short notice
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With zero hours contracts being quite normal in a lot of places I rather think it might be easier than you imagine 😉 |
I'm in the BA lounge in T7 JFK at the moment. It's extremely quiet!
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Originally Posted by nancypants
(Post 31506038)
With zero hours contracts being quite normal in a lot of places I rather think it might be easier than you imagine 😉 |
Update: the lounge is open for reduced hours today and tomorrow (for about 2 hours before the lone LCY flight departs). The food offering seems to be slightly pared down, but that seems reasonable.
Quite a lot of passengers here! Would make sense given that BAEC elites probably had a higher chance of being rebooked onto this flight... |
Originally Posted by rsak
(Post 31506112)
Update: the lounge is open for reduced hours today and tomorrow (for about 2 hours before the lone LCY flight departs). The food offering seems to be slightly pared down, but that seems reasonable.
Quite a lot of passengers here! Would make sense given that BAEC elites probably had a higher chance of being rebooked onto this flight... |
Originally Posted by golfmad
(Post 31506055)
I'm in the BA lounge in T7 JFK at the moment. It's extremely quiet!
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BA lounge at Barbados also shut. I accept that there are no BA flights today, but I’m now rebooked on American, which should have given me access. |
Originally Posted by bluemoon68
(Post 31507005)
BA lounge at Barbados also shut. I accept that there are no BA flights today, but I’m now rebooked on American, which should have given me access. https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...7c5cb63e0.jpeg |
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