NickB

And I have flown HBO on FR from MRS and from KRK and I was required to go via the check-in desks. That is the problem with basing oneself on one's own anecdotal experience and assuming it to be a universal truth.

BOH

Which is why my anecdotal experience was based on the 18 LCC sectors I have flown. It was pretty clear

NickB

... and yet this did not prevent you to pronounce on the matter in a general manner, as if what you said reflected the practice of all LCCs at all airports rather than a subset of these.

BOH

Try again, I made reference to three specific LCC's I had used. Notwithstanding that, LCCs would appear to be far better than BA in this respect because if Verifly fails (which seems to pretty common according to anecdotal experiences on here) then you 100% have to go to a check-in queue because BA does not do any GA checking of docs for HBO fares.

Confus

BA struggles enough with on-time performance as it is… checking docs at the gate would be a nightmare waiting to happen given the issues people have. The T5 model of conformance with right-to-fly checks pushes all this back to pre-security, resulting in a cleaner boarding process.

And something a lot of people are missing in this thread is the volume of connecting traffic BA carries vs. the LCCs. If you have exclusively P2P customers, you get a lot more flexibility, but if you’re connecting you’ve got several countries and their requirements to consider at the same time. Imagine the fuss there would be on this thread of docs were checked twice at each boarding gate… whereas on BA, once ADOC is set, that’s it for the whole journey.

Oh and by the way, seeing as it’s needed for balance, I’m 100% success rate with Verifly, where it’s been available.

vectismanpaul

I have to admit I wonder about the agenda of those who begin threads such as this. If you fly an airline and find the level of service unacceptable to your tastes then surely you simply switch carriers to one that does. Why the need for all the hand wringing, angst and general disgust?
Maybe I am easily pleased but most of the time most of the flights I take within Europe are fine and pretty similar across all airlines. I tend to travel in economy or business depending on length of journey, time of day, frequency and of course price.

Discus

You are lucky - Oslo is down to three flight pr week in January. And yes, normally demand is low in Jen/Feb, but now it is all time low.

My guess is that LCC are point-to-point so just one rule to follow when checking docs which will be fast. BA have a lot of transit-pax and they need to check that you are entitled to the entire journey so would make the gate-check much ore complex and take more time.

_kurt

Seatbelts have gone BoB now? I would be much less worried about the lost revenue and more worried about passenger safety. Though surely some experienced or cautious passengers will choose to purchase a seatbelt even if the sign does not illuminate.