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28/03/2008, 11:00 AM ROBERT Joined on 16/08/2003 NR Gt. Yarmouth Posts 3,442 BA are at it AGAIN....another UK disaster. So BA are in the headlines yet again for all the wrong reasons, I question has any other company had so much constant bad press over the last 20 years as this one. If this is the future of air travel..........after 4 BILLION £ to set up........ Strange how in often involves BA with trouble at Heathrow. Their customers have like their staff, have many causes for complaint over the years, which has been well reported by the media. With people that do travel, some are going without their luggage, or sleeping there overnight. Many haven`t forgot they lost 20,000 luggage items a few years back Reports of getting there are not so good either..........another british nightmare, with congested roads, lousey rail system, now the future of airports gets a bashing. BA chief executive Willie Walsh acceptes full responsibility ...... Like I have said before, we have a production line in the UK of producing overpaid people without the ability to justify their salary.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/mar/28/theairlineindustry.britishairwaysbusiness    Report

28/03/2008, 11:56 AM keith gerrard Joined on 16/04/2004 Posts 9,881 Re: BA are at it AGAIN....another UK disaster. Just add this to the thread on terrorist activity at Bacton and you will see the truth about the government lies on terrorist risk. If BA is SO incompetent, does anyone really believe they can prevent terrorist activity?????????????????????????????? Neither can the airport authority or the police on task at Heathrow. Not one chance in a million. The reason why BA operates like a child's club for paper aeroplanes is because certain people wish to bleed its resources and eventually sell it for peanuts to their Zionist friends. Work it out yourselves for gods sake. Dream on keithgerrard@gerrard24.freeserve.co.uk    Report

28/03/2008, 1:07 PM john Joined on 07/08/2007 Posts 1,024 Re: BA are at it AGAIN....another UK disaster. There are two B.A.s Keith.Both are a disgraceful shambles.John    Report

29/03/2008, 2:29 AM ROBERT Joined on 16/08/2003 NR Gt. Yarmouth Posts 3,442 Re: BA are at it AGAIN....another UK disaster. With baggage piling up of 500 items and 200 flights lost in the first 3 days, it highlights our lack lusture high earners poor ability theory .......... My heart went our to the people fliying out for a holiday cruise with no baggage.... ladies like to dress up in the evenings on board .... and have paid like others going on holiday to have it ruined by BA. Heads have got to roll on this one... WHAT A WAY TO TREAT YOUR LUGGAGE...........          Report

29/03/2008, 1:15 PM keith gerrard Joined on 16/04/2004 Posts 9,881 Re: BA are at it AGAIN....another UK disaster. I cannot understand this. What does it take to move someones luggage over a short distance and load it? What is causing this shambles? Dream on keithgerrard@gerrard24.freeserve.co.uk    Report

02/04/2008, 10:02 AM ROBERT Joined on 16/08/2003 NR Gt. Yarmouth Posts 3,442 Re: BA are at it AGAIN....another UK disaster. SO BA SHOW WHAT IDIOTS THEY REALLY ARE, BY MAKING  THE SAGA WORSE........ You couldn`t write this story...........after what`s happened at T5 the past week. TV News this morning reporting that BA a moving LUGGAGE to ITALY, for a Italian courrier firm to sort and send the luggage back to the owners in the UK and where ever, to make room for more Luggage to pile up at Heathrows T5. Why has it got to sent to MILAN....and burn wasted air fuel, when surely a UK courier company, or who ever could to the same job nearby to the Heathrow airport........Who the hell makes these BA ideas...? The fact that it has been a week since the start of the disaster means many people on a weeks holiday have had no luggage at all...... how they got on heaven knows , with all the aggrovation. The compensation must be massive and growing by the hour. As I have said on several other of BAs past disaters ...why doesn`t it only happen to BA.... and how do they constantly allowed to get away with it......and the way they treat the public without multi-million £ fines impossed on them........One day of it is a disgrace.....we are now starting the second week... And no heads have rolled yet...! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7325723.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/04/02/ccjeff102.xml    Report

02/04/2008, 12:38 PM keith gerrard Joined on 16/04/2004 Posts 9,881 Re: BA are at it AGAIN....another UK disaster. Transporting bags to mainland Europe is an attempt to get the bags to the owners in Europe Robert. The whole mess is a result of the T5 system and the security system it includes. This IMO is the responsibility of the BAA which, if I understand the way stupidity in national interests work these days, is owned by Spaniards!!! So it looks like the Spanish have at last got a result where their Armada failed, thanks to silly New Labour. Dream on keithgerrard@gerrard24.freeserve.co.uk    Report

03/04/2008, 1:41 AM ROBERT Joined on 16/08/2003 NR Gt. Yarmouth Posts 3,442 Re: BA are at it AGAIN....another UK disaster. Now BA have even more troubles as Pilots are not happy now........ what a company........ Is this another Northern Rock looming...? http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article3670961.ece    Report

08/04/2008, 12:16 AM ROBERT Joined on 16/08/2003 NR Gt. Yarmouth Posts 3,442 Re: BA are at it AGAIN....another UK disaster. With the BBC watchdog programme last night saying that the luggage belt system is a disaster etc... I wonder if after 2 weeks of troubles and mountains of lost luggage, some being sent to Milan and now Memphis in the USA. Will the situation ever work as planned or will it be another case of another UK venture being totally peed off by the public and obsolete when it finally acheives its goal. Meanwhile the Pilots are not happy now either..... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/07/nba207.xml Makes you proud to be British...don`t it..? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=557705&in_page_id=1770      Report

12/04/2008, 12:51 AM ROBERT Joined on 16/08/2003 NR Gt. Yarmouth Posts 3,442 Re: BA are at it AGAIN....another UK disaster. The troubles of BA continue even though TV media has backed off reporting lately. We now have BAs annoucement to delay long haul flights from T5 untill June, is only compounding their troubles even further. The fact that airlines wishing to move into T4 when BA moves out are also being delayed, is having a knock on effect leading to even more possible choas at heathrow this summer for travellers. BA is also reported to be considering burning unclaimed luggage, and with 1000s of luggage items gone missing, and 700+ flights cancelled, and with over 140,000 travellers affected.  No doubt there will be a film about this in the near future.... The many affected other airlines are now threatening action on their delay in getting their opperations in T4 going. For BA it just gets worse..............credit where credit is due ..they are a national disgrace....along with BAA. This is a global example to the world of how not to do things.......UK style. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/11/nba111.xml http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/apr/11/britishairwaysbusiness.heathrow http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=558913&in_page_id=1770    Report

16/04/2008, 3:59 PM Stuart Williams Joined on 18/08/2003 Posts 758 Re: BA are at it AGAIN....another UK disaster. Try the new computer game. http://www.weewilliewalsh.co.uk/ Stuart Williams " Politicians are the same everywhere. They promise to build bridges even where there are no rivers. " - Nikita Khrushchev,    Report

16/04/2008, 5:42 PM Jill Joined on 15/08/2005 Norfolk Posts 1,796 Re: BA are at it AGAIN....another UK disaster. Has anyone thought about how it is a windfall for the courier companies who have to return all these bags to the travellers. It occurred to me when my bags went missing after a trip to Thailand When we were waiting for their arrival, there was a person hovering who seemed to know they would be missing He came in and took control immediately, for which we were grateful, but how convenient was that. But, it must be a lucrative business for the companies involved in recovery and returning the baggage. Far more to this than meets the eye, I think this is big business and perhaps there is a criminal interest as well. My husband is adamant that the ex Ryan Air boss of BA is to blame for the debacle.    Report

16/04/2008, 8:54 PM Budgie Joined on 16/08/2003 Cromer Posts 1,048 Re: BA are at it AGAIN....another UK disaster. BA today announced the sacking of two top executives because  of the T5 fiasco. 'The buck stops with me,' 'I take full responsibility for what has been happening,' Willie Walsh emerged unscathed! I might look darf but I ain't stuput!    Report

18/04/2008, 1:25 AM ROBERT Joined on 16/08/2003 NR Gt. Yarmouth Posts 3,442 Re: BA are at it AGAIN....another UK disaster. The T5 farce,  not major news at the monment continues. After sending thousands of luggage bags to Milan so they could be reunited with their owners before they finished they holiday or trip abroad, have failed. Many luggage bags lost their labels with repaeated handling and luggage has now been returned Heathrow. The luggage belt system is working better now, because of increased manual labour has been introduced as it will still not perform as required yet. T5 runs into the second month of troubles, will they every get it right...... China on the other hand introduced their own version of their T5, shown on TV news the other day,  which works correctly form the start....I wonder why...? http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/apr/17/britishairwaysbusiness.theairlineindustry    Report

10/05/2008, 12:09 AM ROBERT Joined on 16/08/2003 NR Gt. Yarmouth Posts 3,442 Re: BA are at it AGAIN....another UK disaster. The BA farse continues as the CEO now gets a £700,000 bonus for ........reward for failure. Lets hope benefit fraud grows to even up and address the balance......... Can anyone give me any logic why this CEO is not sacked for failure...... instead of reaping a fantasic reward for failure.....with the amount he is paid failure should never be an issue........if construction workers were paid more for failure, there would be a lot dead people as a result of collapsed buildings. With all the trouble caused to the public.......... there are some nutters still saying this CEO is paid the going rate............my question is, the growing rate for what......... if paid by results he would get sod all, as he has cost BA millions.   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=565226&in_page_id=1770    Report

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