Yes, apparently they are indeed telling pax they can't travel with any checked bags - and the handbaggage restrictions remain in place, so if you have a suitcase you are stuffed. Expectation of delivery of hold bags at destination if you do check them in foir later handling is being given out as 7 days, but we all know the chances are too high you will never see them again and BA will send them all to auction eventually if that proves to be cheaper.
Of course some of the lazy, latte-stuffed, paper-pushing lot from Waterworld, hundreds of them, could have come over and done it by hand, as the baggage handlers won't do anything beyond their contract, but they can't be bothered either. Actually on reflection security would probably veto that, saying anyone from Waterworld without an airside pass must automatically be Al-Qaeda.
I'm given to believe that if the flight actually operates, but the pax can't/won't travel without their bags, then no EU compensation is payable, which is probably why it is done this way. When will carriers realise that carriage of pax bags is not somehow optional?
What a shower.
Last edited by WHBM; 20th Feb 2008 at 11:45.