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JHK was allowed to publish a glowing Heathrow editorial in the Sunday Telegraph business section yesterday.
At 20.00 hrs yesterday normal chaos resumed.
BA 569 arrives, and waits for 30 mins to use a gate, (pilots comment - tow unit broken down).
Then entering the chaos of T5 hundreds of passengers are awaiting their baggage. After an hours wait my daughter leaves with the 4 and 6 year old.
My son waits another hour before collecting all the baggage.
No media on the true events of using T5.
At 20.00 hrs yesterday normal chaos resumed.
BA 569 arrives, and waits for 30 mins to use a gate, (pilots comment - tow unit broken down).
Then entering the chaos of T5 hundreds of passengers are awaiting their baggage. After an hours wait my daughter leaves with the 4 and 6 year old.
My son waits another hour before collecting all the baggage.
No media on the true events of using T5.
I am aware, but the overall comments that everything is fine and dandy at LHR is wrong. Could have been the belts underneath in T5? Sub contracting everything to others needs good overall management.
https://boardingpass.ro/hellojets-ro...ru-aeroitalia/
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Sub-Contracting / Outsourcing is promoted as being easier on the managers in the host company. In reality, it is the opposite. You have to really understand the work, understand how it is done and how to have work arounds for when it goes wrong.
This is one of the key reasons that so many outsourcing companies run rings around the host.
This is one of the key reasons that so many outsourcing companies run rings around the host.
Well if just about everything at Heathrow is outsourced (as it seems to be, from retailers to terminal construction contractors) there's nothing for JHK to even speak about, as they don't actually "do" anything. On the other hand, if they do want to describe it as an overall success, they have to include the aspects of what these outsourcers do on their property. You can't have it both ways.
Same applies to airlines that have commuter carriers wholly branded in all respects as the major carrier - until they have an accident, when the main carrier press releases fully take a "nuffin' to do wiv' us" approach.
Same applies to airlines that have commuter carriers wholly branded in all respects as the major carrier - until they have an accident, when the main carrier press releases fully take a "nuffin' to do wiv' us" approach.
Aeroitalia announced on 22-Nov-2022 a route between Heathrow and Florence in Italy from 26-Dec-2022 - and the route did indeed start as advertised
Yesterday, British Airways announced a route between Heathrow and Florence from 15-Apr-2023 - this is in addition to BACF's London City - Florence, and Vueling's Gatwick - Florence routes
Today, Aeroitalia (possibly just temporarily while they amend their schedule) have removed from sale all flights between Heathrow and Florence after 04-Jan-2023
Yesterday, British Airways announced a route between Heathrow and Florence from 15-Apr-2023 - this is in addition to BACF's London City - Florence, and Vueling's Gatwick - Florence routes
Today, Aeroitalia (possibly just temporarily while they amend their schedule) have removed from sale all flights between Heathrow and Florence after 04-Jan-2023
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Did someone at Aeroitalia not do their homework? FLR has a short runway with some quite challenging weather condiitons the last time I looked. Has anything changed? Otherwise those 737-800s will have some issues I'd have thought...
Aeroitalia announced on 22-Nov-2022 a route between Heathrow and Florence in Italy from 26-Dec-2022 - and the route did indeed start as advertised
Yesterday, British Airways announced a route between Heathrow and Florence from 15-Apr-2023 - this is in addition to BACF's London City - Florence, and Vueling's Gatwick - Florence routes
Today, Aeroitalia (possibly just temporarily while they amend their schedule) have removed from sale all flights between Heathrow and Florence after 04-Jan-2023
Yesterday, British Airways announced a route between Heathrow and Florence from 15-Apr-2023 - this is in addition to BACF's London City - Florence, and Vueling's Gatwick - Florence routes
Today, Aeroitalia (possibly just temporarily while they amend their schedule) have removed from sale all flights between Heathrow and Florence after 04-Jan-2023
Aeroitalia will resume Florence to London Heathrow on 10 February 2023 with two weekly flights instead of the originally planned five weekly flights. From 25 March 2023 the schedule will increase to the originally planned five weekly flights.
Aeroitalia have recently signed a contract to lease a Boeing 737-700 from Romanian start up Hellojet for their Florence operations.
Originally Posted by Sotonsean
According to www.aeroroutes.com
Aeroitalia will resume Florence to London Heathrow on 10 February 2023 with two weekly flights instead of the originally planned five weekly flights. From 25 March 2023 the schedule will increase to the originally planned five weekly flights.
Aeroitalia will resume Florence to London Heathrow on 10 February 2023 with two weekly flights instead of the originally planned five weekly flights. From 25 March 2023 the schedule will increase to the originally planned five weekly flights.
https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/221230-xz1q23
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Where do the AeroItalia slots come from? Is there any link between the ending of Florence and the re-start of Chinese foreign travel two days later? Chinese carriers wanting their slots back?
LHR - Milan Bergamo resumes 2x weekly from 10-Feb-2023, and 7x weekly (reported as 5x weekly by AeroRoutes) from 26-Mar-2023. LHR - Florence is not currently on sale with Aeroitalia after 04-Jan-2023
https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/221230-xz1q23
https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/221230-xz1q23
Hopefully the management at Aeroitalia know what they are doing otherwise I can't see this airline operating for long. I have no doubt that it will eventually be included in the long list of defunct Italian airlines.
"Hopefully the management at Aeroitalia know what they are doing "
Why would they change the habits of a lifetime???
Why would they change the habits of a lifetime???
Aeroitalia was founded in 2021 with flight operations commencing on the 09 July 2022, that's nearly six months ago not a lifetime.
I was thinking of the long and glorious history of Italian airlines in general...................... nice people but not the world's most effective managements
I got what you meant and I totally agree with you but when you used the word "THEY" it made it seem as you were just referring to Aeroitalia rather than the Italian mentality of running an airline.
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Just returned from abroad having used the services of T2 LHR. Arrived for outbound flight in the early hours of 15 December to find utter chaos in the terminal. Pax almost queueing out the doors. Weird snake like queues in multiple directions. Numerous pax becoming irate amid concerns they might miss flights. There was some form of system where staff were announcing imminent departures and relevant pax were pulled from queues. When my turn came was sent to front of queue to use self service baggage tagging. Bag eventually checked in, picked up boarding pass and whisked through security via fast track lanes. Arrived at gate as flight was boarding. Fast forward 12 hours and discover my checked in luggage had not made it my final destination! Luggage finally arrived a full week later as for some unknown reason it was not loaded onto my flight and only actually left LHR 3-4 days later. Utter shambles!
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Just returned from abroad having used the services of T2 LHR. Arrived for outbound flight in the early hours of 15 December to find utter chaos in the terminal. Pax almost queueing out the doors. Weird snake like queues in multiple directions. Numerous pax becoming irate amid concerns they might miss flights. There was some form of system where staff were announcing imminent departures and relevant pax were pulled from queues. When my turn came was sent to front of queue to use self service baggage tagging. Bag eventually checked in, picked up boarding pass and whisked through security via fast track lanes. Arrived at gate as flight was boarding. Fast forward 12 hours and discover my checked in luggage had not made it my final destination! Luggage finally arrived a full week later as for some unknown reason it was not loaded onto my flight and only actually left LHR 3-4 days later. Utter shambles!
We were lucky on our return flight from T2 a week later, but it seems that at a number of critical moments over the holidays there simply haven't been enough baggage handling staff to get bags onto flights.