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The latest news and views on British Airways, the world's "favourite" airline.

Monday, 11 December 2017

BA Call Armed Police To Business Class Lounge


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Wednesday, 2 August 2017

BA Systems Crash Again!


London Loves Business reports that British Airways systems crashed again this morning leading to long delays and ‘total chaos’ at Heathrow and Gatwick.

Passengers described ‘total chaos’ at Heathrow and problems were also reported at Gatwick after the check-in systems crashed.

The airline said the fault was resolved at about 9am BST and the system was now operating normally and apologised for the ‘temporary’ problem.

A spokesman for BA said: “We are sorry for the temporary check-in problems which caused some delays for our customers first thing this morning.

“This issue is now resolved and our staff are working flat out to help customers get away on their holidays.”

This comes in the wake of the shambolic IT meltdown in May.

BA seem intent on destroying their brand and what remains of their customers' loyalty!

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Wednesday, 7 June 2017

BA Needs To Deploy The Chaos Monkey



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Friday, 2 June 2017

BA Blames Contractor For Power Outage



As per Reuters, a contractor doing maintenance work at a British Airways data center inadvertently switched off the power supply, knocking out the airline's computer systems and leaving 75,000 people stranded last weekend.

The Times quoting a BA source, said the power supply unit that sparked the I.T. failure was working perfectly but was accidentally shut down by a worker. An investigation into the power outage is likely to focus on human error rather than any equipment failure, it said. 


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Tuesday, 30 May 2017

Full BA Flight Schedule Restored

BA have now restored their full flight schedule.

However, it may still take time for bags to be reunited with their owners.

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Monday, 29 May 2017

BA's CEO Alex Cruz Apologises


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BA Struggles To Restore Order Three Days After IT Metldown


British Airways is continuing to work to restore its computer systems after a power failure allegedly caused major disruption for thousands of passengers worldwide.

The BBC reports that the airline is "closer to full operational capacity" after an IT power outage resulted in mass flight cancellations at Heathrow and Gatwick.

Thousands of passengers remain displaced, with large numbers sleeping overnight in terminals.
BA has not explained the cause of the power outage.

So far on Monday, 13 short-haul flights at Heathrow have been cancelled.

Chief executive Alex Cruz has posted videos on Twitter apologising for what he called a "horrible time for passengers".

No-one from the British Airways has been made available to answer questions about the system crash, and it has not explained why there was no back-up system in place.

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Saturday, 27 May 2017

BA IT Meltdown

BA have cancelled all flights scheduled to depart from Gatwick and Heathrow today, owing to a major IT failure.


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Monday, 10 April 2017

BA To Charge For Long Haul Food


Customers of British Airways on their long haul flights may one day have to buy their own food and drink, Alex Cruz the airline’s chairman has disclosed.

BA may widen out its short flight policy of scrapping free food and instead offering passengers the option to buy Marks & Spencer sandwiches.

Alex Cruz is gung-ho about it, seemingly passengers welcome the opportunity to pay for M&S snacks on European short haul flights.

He told the Sunday Times:
It's going great. Customers say to us: 'Finally, I have good choices. No more chicken or beef'."
Asked if the service could be extended to long-haul economy, he said: "We might do it".

What a load of bollocks, of course people don't want to pay more for their flights.

The answer is simple, don't fly BA!

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Monday, 3 April 2017

BA Stops Elderly Lady From Using Toilet

The Telegraph reports that British Airways staff have been criticised for stopping an 87-year-old woman from using the toilet on a flight, leaving her sitting in soaking clothes.

Kocharik Tsamouzian was bound for London from Los Angeles but realised she needed to use the bathroom shortly after boarding the plane.

As the flight was delayed on the runway she was repeatedly told she was not allowed to the use the bathroom, with a cabin crew member even reportedly blocking her access in the aisle at one point.
The flight, on December 22 last year, ended up waiting on the runway for 90 minutes, resulting in Mrs Tsamouzian wetting herself.

BA are quoted:
We have been in touch with our customer after what we understand must have been a very distressing experience.

Our highly trained cabin crew always work to make our customers as comfortable as possible, but Civil Aviation Authority safety rules stipulate everyone must remain seated with their seatbelts on after the aircraft has started moving.

The safety and security of our customers is always our top priority.
Clealry BA's PR department hasn't read this:
"Adequate toilet facilities must be maintained and made available to passengers during the delay."
 Source Nolo.com

A disgraceful way to treat someone, especially an elderly lady!




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Monday, 20 March 2017

BA's Race To The Bottom - Except On Prices!

The Telegraph reports that British Airways is racing to the bottom, wrt inflight etxras etc.

Disgruntled cabin crew have provided a list to BA management of recent changes they say are diminishing the carrier’s reputation, the Sunday Times reported, including the loss of first-class perks, such as free amuse-bouches with customers’ first drink, no more fresh flowers in the first class toilets, and the downsizing of complimentary washbags.

One cabin crew employee, who has been with the airline for 12 years, told the newspaper staff were “embarrassed by the state of the product. The only thing not being cut is the prices”.

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Tuesday, 7 March 2017

BA To Offer less Legroom Than Ryanair

British Airways, in an attempt to take on the budget airlines, is cutting the amount of legroom for economy passengers by squeezing two more rows of seats onto its Airbus aircraft.

BA will reduce the gap between seats from 30 inches to 29 inches on the A320 and A321 planes in its fleet, meaning it will offer the same legroom as easyJet.

However, Ryanair offers its passengers 30 inches of legroom.

Cue the next Ryanair advert!

BA claim this move is in the interests of its customers, in that it will be able to offer lower fares.

Whether that is true or not, only time will tell. However, unless people start slimming down, less legroom makes for a very uncomfortable journey!


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