The combination British Airways + Heathrow is criminal: over the last 4 years we have had more than 20 BA flights going through Heathrow between myself, friends and colleagues, and not a single flight has arrived at the final destination within the same calendar day it was meant to - not only connecting flights get regularly cancelled with no same day alternative offered by British Airways, but what's even worse every single time:
1. There is no simple process provided by BA to obtain an overnight hotel and meal vouchers: the only option is to get those from a kiosk with usually about 4 operators serving hundreds of customers in line at any one time, meaning a queue no shorter than 3+ hours.
2. If you need to connect your bag from the first flight, this does not get released automatically: again the only option is a separate 2+ hours queue to get the bag released (note even if you went through the queue from 1., you still need to get through this additional queue to get your bag released), and then wait another 1-2 hours for the bag to reach the belt.
3. Passport control is between the kiosks for 1. and 2. - if you cross that, either by accident or to do 2., then you can no longer go back to the kiosk for 1. and get your overnight accommodation and meal voucher.
Meaning that not only one gets 1+ days delayed to their destination, but also has to spend the entire time until then fighting their way through procedures clearly made to push people to give up on receiving any of what they are due.
But that's not all: regularly when submitting claims for compensation, as normal for flights delayed for more than 3 hours, one eventually finds that even in situations where the responsibility for the delay/cancellation is clearly on British Airways (for instance, we've been on a flight where the BA pilot announced midnight that they forgot to add enough fuel for a short flight between Edinburgh and London, and hence decided to land in an airport away from Heathrow...), there is a fake report from Heathrow staff claiming some kind of force majeure like inclement weather (even when I'm truth there wasn't any) in order to relieve British Airways from their compensation duties.
I have travelled all continents and in no other airport or airway line there is a situation as appalling as the British Airways + Heathrow one.
2 weeks ago
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