O?T: BA flight cancelation for tomorrow

[PHCgull]

Just had family xmas holiday cancelled by BA - they have seats in the same class on another flight to the same destination leaving 45 minutes earlier - can they move us into them? no, they are punting them at £2937 a pop. bastards.

 

[dannyboy]

unbelievable, what did they say to you about the seats on the earlier flight

 

[empire]

taking the piss,my wifes bro and family flying from spain today,flight cancelled,could fly later at a cost of 1000 euros per seat,instead coming tom night

 

[Easy 10]

THAT

is absolutely f***ing outrageous. How the bollocking hell can they possibly justify that ?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

And the public wonder why BA staff and unions are so keen to stick it up Willie Walsh. He has taken a once proud national carrier and turned it into at worse a farce, at best just another airline.

 

[PHCgull]

they dont say anything to you - if you ring BA now you get told they are busy, go to the website, and then it rings off.

I can understadn the disruption for snow. But basically they are cashing in on desperation whilst mewling on about "doing our best for our passengers". At least ryanair et al. look you in the eye when they shaft you...

 

[Easy 10]

At least ryanair et al. look you in the eye when they shaft you...

Indeed.
You'd expect BA to at least have the common decency of offering a reach-around after bollocksing up your arrangements.

 

[empire]

taking the piss,my wifes bro and family flying from spain today,flight cancelled,could fly later at a cost of 1000 euros per seat,instead coming tom night

this is with easy jet

 

[PHCgull]

yes fair point, none of the airlines is going to miss an opportunity to rape desperate passengers, whilst sendign the PR muppets out front to say "we're doing all we can to minimise the inconvenience.."

 

[Easy 10]

I can't believe they can get away with it. Have they offered a refund ?

 

[PHCgull]

yes they will refund the money for the cancellation, thats a given. I guess my beef is that rather than first using their spare inventory to disinconvenience people who booked ages ago, they now see a hot sellers market and are cashing in - amazingly all the seats have sold at that price so people must be absolutely desperate to go...

 

[Easy 10]

The very first thing any decent, reputable company would do is offer you, their customer who they have greatly inconvenienced and buggered about, alternative seats on the nearest available flight. Clearly they'd rather screw people over though.

BA = scum.

 

[Chicken Run]

Where were you hoping to fly to and what class of travel were you in i.e First, clubworld WTplus or WT or if Europe Club Europe or Euro Traveller?

 

[PHCgull]

Dubai in WTplus -

edit: the £3k tickets were the same price in WT or WTplus...

 

[Chicken Run]

Jesus wept I was expecting you to be saying Club World, f***ing wankers!!!

 

[dannyboy]

my 12 year old son lives in sweden and was due in from copenhagen last night. norwegian air cancelled his flight just as he arrived to check in after a 3 hour train journey. the next flight they offered him was tomorrow night at the same time. his mum asked why not today and they said they were fully booked. i looked on the website and there was plenty of availability but the prices were £300 one way ( its usually £50 or so) . simple profiteering . wankers. especially when you have a 12 year old coming to see his dad for xmas

 

[Mendoza]

When I got stuck flying to Amsterdam from gatwick a couple of weeks back, they cancelled my flight, and said there wasn't one for two days.
We were then told they would put us on a flight from bristol that afternoon but we had to pay for the 2 hour coach transfer too, which cost more than the flight.

We refused to go, and miraculously they found space for us in a flight later the same evening.

so after a 9 hour wait, we boarded the flight which was delayed for 2 hours, and the flight was only just over half full...

 

[hart's shirt]

Dubai in WTplus -

edit: the £3k tickets were the same price in WT or WTplus...

Sorry to hear that. Send me a pm if/when you ever get out here in the future and we'll meet up for a beer.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

.....and some wonder why people want to blow planes up.

 

[PHCgull]

my 12 year old son lives in sweden and was due in from copenhagen last night. norwegian air cancelled his flight just as he arrived to check in after a 3 hour train journey. the next flight they offered him was tomorrow night at the same time. his mum asked why not today and they said they were fully booked. i looked on the website and there was plenty of availability but the prices were £300 one way ( its usually £50 or so) . simple profiteering . wankers. especially when you have a 12 year old coming to see his dad for xmas

i feel for you mate. Hope your lad makes it for xmas