Originally Posted by
ratty1
Even the Airlines get it wrong at times and they really do have paying passengers
Yup, years ago BA did it twice going in to Inverness.
Once they were late landing and blamed the RAF. As BEags said,
big mistake OC Ops Lossie objected and BA had to apologise. Unfortunately the 100 odd pax would not have got that apology.
Second time they put the jet on the ground at Kinloss. Immediately a vehicle arrived from Dalcross
like phoning ahead good boys. OC Ops was then flabergasted as the crew descended, got in the limousine and drove off leaving the aircraft, power off, load of pax on board. "Not our problem old boy, ServisAir (or who ever), crew duty time etc, bye"
A movement team was quickly summoned and some sort of order imposed but of course no transport of baggage handling was possible.
'Nother time at Gatwick - 90 minute flight - baggage 120 minutes from the aircraft. BA couldn't care less. Not paid for another flight with them since.