BA, Thieving B@st&rds
 

My wife is on an internal flight with BA and has been told she MUST check in her vanity case, but that then takes her over the 1 piece of laggage per person so she has to pay 15 quid. :ugh:

Talk about taking advantage and cashing in!!! Gits :E

Flybe Suspends In-Airport Baggage Charges
As a result of the heightened security at UK airports today, for those passengers that have not pre-paid for their baggage there will be no charge for placing baggage in the aircraft hold. Flybe will continue with this policy throughout the critical risk period. Flybe will post further information to this website as it becomes available.

I'm sure there's a lesson here about the price of vanity.

There is a lesson here and it does not have a lot to do with vanity. Making money off of pax who have no choice is closer to the truth.

Was this at the airport just prior to departure, or was this advice given before leaving home?
If you're at the airport already, then leniency is the rule of the day. If you haven't left home then expect to pay for it. If leniency at the airport has not been shown, I'm very surprised.

Sure you can afford it anyway, what with your Dubai lifestyle. And I bet you're used to your wife costing you money anyhow - anyone that has a vanity case must be a bit ott, esp one that you can't fit inside a main bag. Was/is she a hostie per chance! As you put it :ugh:

Bit unfair there Fishy. Being from the UAE doesn't meen you can't be ripped off. Profiting from the current kerfuffle at the expense of pax is hardly something you'd expect from 'The World's Favourite Airline'.:ok:

What was the combined weight of the 2 cases? The domestic excess bag charge should be £30. Also surely you would know the restictions on hand luggage by now and packed in a single case accordingly?

Agree and it should not matter where someone is from. I might be able to afford a lot but giving it to BA when its not needed nor deserved is not my idea of a good idea.

Original post said "My wife IS on..." not "My wife WAS on..." so I guess that means today. Unless you have been in the middle of nowhere for the past few days it would seem blindingly obvious what the current security issues are and would of thought it child's play to suss out what was going to happen when you pitch up with a 'vanity case'.

Exactly my thoughts.

To be fair to this poster - IF his wife had flown in from abroad with a non-BA carrier, would you EXPECT her to know 'what the dickens' the UK was up to?

Thanks BOAC, one of the few with someting sensible to say and not jumping to stupid conclusions.

And Just For SLF Guy.....WAS!

She was charged the 15 quid because it was a second hold item and could not be fitted into the case.

The two items combined were still below the 23kg allowance for a domestic flight.

But yes as someone rightly said, I can afford it living in the "sand pit" on my "film star salary"

Just p1sses me off when they take advantage of a situation

I'm bewildered at some of the answers, some of them would be considered offensive on JB, let-alone here.

Clearly the airline had a duty to carry the legal weight wherever it's put, unless it had made it quite clear–at the time of ticket sale–that special circumstances were necessary due to the crisis.

The issue is one of principal, not whether their customer should have figured things out for themselves. I personally would be going for compensation on this one...as a matter of principal.

A guy I know popped his laptop and Ipod into his rucksack per instructions and low and behold collected his baggage at his destination and guess what ? ..... yep, no iPod or laptop :(

still, at least he wasn't charged for extra baggage :D

My question is, just where in the hell is the security who is checking these thieves as they walk out after their shift? Why are they not searched both going in and coming out?

If they did not come in with a laptop or Ipod, (and we know that neither are now allowed) then how in the world are they being allowed to walk out with one??

CD, I think the fact is there is such a concentration on ingoing screening, and such a shortage of staff, that getting things OUT of the airport will be pretty easy!

After all, things going out don't pose a great immediate security risk.

What worries me more is that the people who are doing the stealing must be the very people employed to screen the baggage and make the airport secure. It hardly speaks volumes for their trustworthiness!

c.d. don't you remember our wise bjcc gave us all the answers in the other threads:
... uk airports are private property ...
... police cannot do anything in such areas ...
... airlines not collaborating ...

sound like a lot of convenient b.s. to me.

On a UK domestic flight the baggage allowence at the moment is 1 piece up to 32kg. Not 2 pieces weighing under a 23kg limit.

Ha! Think again! The security risk I am concerned about is the security of our jobs. When too many pax get home and find that they have been robbed blind, and the airline nor security does anything about it, they will NOT FLY ANYMORE and we as pilots will not be needed.

EL,

Agree and it is very convenient BS. Read above and it needs to be fixed and now before we lose our passengers, and thus our jobs.