LGW Lounge - Lift refurb
Mar 22, 2019, 4:32 am
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LGW Lounge - Lift refurb
There is currently only one lift serving the LGW lounge as part of a refurb project.
there is a BA staffer lurking just at the entrance to the lift lobby pointing people to the stairs up as the quickest route.
I asked at the desk but they didn’t know how long the project would take but lifts always seem to take a long time!
there is a BA staffer lurking just at the entrance to the lift lobby pointing people to the stairs up as the quickest route.
I asked at the desk but they didn’t know how long the project would take but lifts always seem to take a long time!
Mar 22, 2019, 4:36 am
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Discovered this on a NCE trip last week. The one "working" lift was not going anywhere either. these lifts have always been funny - they are (or were) independent of each other and so both buttons needed to be pressed to ensure you were not effectively waiting for a single lift.
Mar 22, 2019, 5:02 am
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I was also there this morning but still used the lift anyway. Clearly they can't get everyone to use it and are prioritising wheelchair users. I would have thought pregnancy would be another good reason to use the lifts. The staffers, on level 2 and 3 ltoday were GAL rather than BA. Or rather Omniserv to be more accurate.
Mar 22, 2019, 10:41 pm
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Isn’t it typical that half of the infrastructure are being enhanced/engineering-worked and the other half works half of the time for, eh, almost everything BA, maybe not just BA?
I was in LGW lounge which is packed full. People with toddlers, elderly with luggage all stuck in that remaining poor lift wondering why it didn’t work, but in a calm way.
#keepcalmandenhanceon
I was in LGW lounge which is packed full. People with toddlers, elderly with luggage all stuck in that remaining poor lift wondering why it didn’t work, but in a calm way.
#keepcalmandenhanceon
Mar 23, 2019, 5:41 am
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I was there a couple of weeks ago. The one lift was stuck at the lounge with a wheelchair passenger looking worried. One of the wheelchair pushers appeared and proceeded to reset the lift logic, and off we went. I had no idea these guys had such in depth knowledge of LGW infrastructure.^