Originally Posted by
wiggy
Having said that I'm not a fan of the -35 minute rule either, but as SKipness 1E rightly said " BA's on time performance was in the toilet at LHR".
How much of this was due to the decision to move from bulk load bags (pax no show at gate, go inside and extract bag) to containerised baggage (re-marshal GSE and all personnel, some elements of which are invariably not available right now, up, get containers all out again, then go inside and extract bag, then load them all back in again, etc, etc).
Was once on a BA 747 departing Heathrow where on taxi out it was discovered there was a bag mismatch, over to remote stand, nearly 60 minutes to get the GSE back in place to get the bag out.