BA 84 Vancouver to LHR
Aug 7, 2022, 7:33 am
#3
Join Date: Jul 2020
Location: Burnaby, Canada
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I am on that flight soon. How much notice did they give you?
YVR is a beautiful airport (too bad about the staffing). However, I wouldn't want to hang around it for any length of time.
PS When are they going to reopen the BA lounges?
YVR is a beautiful airport (too bad about the staffing). However, I wouldn't want to hang around it for any length of time.
PS When are they going to reopen the BA lounges?
Aug 7, 2022, 7:46 am
#4
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Aug 7, 2022, 2:02 pm
#6
Join Date: May 2017
Location: SEA
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if the CX lounge is still open I would highly recommend that over Plaza Premium. Pre-Covid they had great food, and a decent drinks selection. Plaza Premium is tiny, and absolute garbage food/drinks.
Aug 7, 2022, 2:07 pm
#7
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Aug 7, 2022, 2:20 pm
#8
Join Date: May 2017
Location: SEA
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Turns out it's closed anyway, so it wouldn't have mattered. I always forget that BA84 is such a late flight, I'm usually on the BA48 or 52 services out of SEA, but sometimes I do need to route via YVR.
Aug 7, 2022, 2:30 pm
#9
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Looks like they ended up skipping an entire LHR-YVR-LHR rotation, with today´s flight heading out roughly on schedule. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...625Z/EGLL/CYVR
BA are having a terrible timing keeping the A380s operational, meaning that you are risking a serious delay every time you are booked to fly on one...
BA are having a terrible timing keeping the A380s operational, meaning that you are risking a serious delay every time you are booked to fly on one...
Aug 7, 2022, 5:28 pm
#10
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Seriously a magnificent piece of engineering when it works properly!
Aug 8, 2022, 12:09 am
#11
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Join Date: Oct 2011
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My brother was coming off an Alaskan cruise, so booked the Pan Pacific hotel for a extra night. It’s over the £200 BA suggest but they can argue with BA when they get back. I’ve told him to keep all receipts and advised him off his EU261 rights. Anything else travel insurance should cover. I think the flight is currently showing a 20 hour delay.
Aug 8, 2022, 12:42 am
#12
Join Date: Jan 2016
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My brother was coming off an Alaskan cruise, so booked the Pan Pacific hotel for a extra night. It’s over the £200 BA suggest but they can argue with BA when they get back. I’ve told him to keep all receipts and advised him off his EU261 rights. Anything else travel insurance should cover. I think the flight is currently showing a 20 hour delay.
Aug 8, 2022, 2:40 am
#13
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: South East, UK
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And the Plaza Premium is a pretty dire lounge. I was there last month. Constant queue for food or drinks. They kept running out of glassware. They kept running out of food. Which meant that most people were doubling up on drinks to avoid having to go back and queue for a while. I would try to spend as little time as possible at the airport.
Aug 8, 2022, 3:40 am
#14
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: The North
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I have it on good authority that the root cause of the Vancouver delays is as described above - unreliability of the aircraft following their return to service. This is, I have been told (I’ve not specifically checked, but I trust the source), compounded by the fact that the same airframe is used for several days on the trot - so a delay outbound means the following inbound is delayed, then the outbound, and so on. For whatever reason, substituting another airframe isn’t practical. This might explain the decision to cancel one day entirely, described above
Aug 9, 2022, 4:53 pm
#15
Join Date: Jul 2020
Location: Burnaby, Canada
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 101
And the Plaza Premium is a pretty dire lounge. I was there last month. Constant queue for food or drinks. They kept running out of glassware. They kept running out of food. Which meant that most people were doubling up on drinks to avoid having to go back and queue for a while. I would try to spend as little time as possible at the airport.
Maybe someone should start a thread on the worst lounges where BA flies