Comments on: If British Airways employees go on strike, you’ll wish you’d read this http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/if-british-airways-employees-go-on-strike-youll-wish-youd-read-this/ The last honest travel site Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: uberVU - social comments http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/if-british-airways-employees-go-on-strike-youll-wish-youd-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-18339 uberVU - social comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:24:53 +0000 http://www.consumertraveler.com/?p=22821#comment-18339 <strong>Social comments and analytics for this post...</strong> This post was mentioned on Twitter by Mondial_Assist: #Travel #Insurance is your best bet in case of a British Airways strike. http://bit.ly/8tkNly... Social comments and analytics for this post…

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]]> By: jbfrombremerton http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/if-british-airways-employees-go-on-strike-youll-wish-youd-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-18241 jbfrombremerton Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:19:23 +0000 http://www.consumertraveler.com/?p=22821#comment-18241 To finish....Once a passenger leaves the airport the airline will no longer consider you to be a "distressed passenger" and they feel less willing to assist you. You will be responsible for your own transportation and lodging until the airline finds a way to get you on your way. It wasn't fun but we stayed at LHR for 30 hours before continuing our journey. Our luggage showed up 8 or 9 days later. Purchasing travel insurance is a big hedge against the troubles you can run into on the road. I hope BA learned some lessons from that debacle. The lesson I learned was not to patronize BA. To finish….Once a passenger leaves the airport the airline will no longer consider you to be a “distressed passenger” and they feel less willing to assist you. You will be responsible for your own transportation and lodging until the airline finds a way to get you on your way. It wasn’t fun but we stayed at LHR for 30 hours before continuing our journey. Our luggage showed up 8 or 9 days later. Purchasing travel insurance is a big hedge against the troubles you can run into on the road. I hope BA learned some lessons from that debacle. The lesson I learned was not to patronize BA.

]]> By: jbfrombremerton http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/if-british-airways-employees-go-on-strike-youll-wish-youd-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-18240 jbfrombremerton Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:11:36 +0000 http://www.consumertraveler.com/?p=22821#comment-18240 Several years ago my wife and I were two of the nearly 90,000+ victims of a wildcat walkout of British Airways ramp personal and the gate agents/airport check-in agents who struck with them out of sympathy. The "labor action" lasted approximately 12 hours and the chaos at London-Heathrow Airport was immeasurable. In their infinite wisdom BA management did nothing to keep their fleet at departure airports opting instead to bring all of their flights into LHR where the gates filled rapidly and jets were stacked all over the tarmac. The terminals were packed full, luggage was brought into large hall spaces and dumped in disorganized piles and BA had nobody around to explain options. The mood got pretty ugly and we saw the worst and best sides of people under duress. Our coping strategy was as follows: remain as nice as possible and schmooz up any BA person willing to speak with us so we could get ourselves around the problem, use a cell phone to try to reach a BA ticket agent rather than standing in lines, go to other airlines with flights heading where we were headed and see if they could write a ticket for us to be signed by a BA agent who would be reticketing us on one of their competitors, and most importantly DO NOT LEAVE THE AIRPORT! Several years ago my wife and I were two of the nearly 90,000+ victims of a wildcat walkout of British Airways ramp personal and the gate agents/airport check-in agents who struck with them out of sympathy. The “labor action” lasted approximately 12 hours and the chaos at London-Heathrow Airport was immeasurable. In their infinite wisdom BA management did nothing to keep their fleet at departure airports opting instead to bring all of their flights into LHR where the gates filled rapidly and jets were stacked all over the tarmac. The terminals were packed full, luggage was brought into large hall spaces and dumped in disorganized piles and BA had nobody around to explain options. The mood got pretty ugly and we saw the worst and best sides of people under duress. Our coping strategy was as follows: remain as nice as possible and schmooz up any BA person willing to speak with us so we could get ourselves around the problem, use a cell phone to try to reach a BA ticket agent rather than standing in lines, go to other airlines with flights heading where we were headed and see if they could write a ticket for us to be signed by a BA agent who would be reticketing us on one of their competitors, and most importantly DO NOT LEAVE THE AIRPORT!

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