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It wasn’t meant to be that way! I used to work for British Caledonian and went to LA to test a new reservation system enhancement. We were met at the airport and told that it wasn’t available so elected to come straight back on the same aircraft! This was before email so communication was...

I’ve done Day trips to Los Angeles and New York and the New York one was on Concorde. i gave the environment a body blow.

Heathrow to New York on Concorde. Very narrow bodied, service was great and didn’t have enough time to sleep. But I imagine that this plane doesn’t really count.

I I spent twenty years in BA’s revenue management department doing exactly that. It’s not an exact science but we got it right about 98%. When it does go wrong we buy ourselves out of trouble. By paying compensation often well in excess of the price of the ticket, paying for meals and...

BA used to operate Tristars and 757s to Jersey!

She’s now calling for ALL railway stations to be staffed!

There’s a security issue if someone travels on a flight they’re not booked on and checked in on and even more so if their bag is on a flight that the passenger isn’t on.

Quite. The boarding pass scanner would always ‘beep‘ angrily and turn red if there were seat changes made after the original boarding pass was issued. This happened a lot especially on long haul flights especially when you had upgrades and seating people together and for many other reasons...

To my shame I let it happen once and actually boarded a passenger for a completely different flight! I should have checked the boarding pass more carefully and realised when the boarding pass reader flashed red and made an uncomfortable noise something wasn’t right. Fortunately a much more...

I think St Louis was last served by British Caledonian, possibly as a stopover on the way to Dallas Fort Worth.

Thanks, that reminds me. I used to work for British Caledonian and one flight a day went from Gatwick to Glasgow then to Edinburgh before going back to Gatwick, BR949 and it was known as the round Robin.

Also, I did the ‘Airlink’ helicopter between Heathrow and Gatwick. It was about 30 miles in a straight line and took 15 minutes. It was in 1984.

I once did Eindhoven to Rotterdam on a KLM Cityhopper F28. All of fifteen minutes On a jet.

It’s not a Revenue Management decision, I spent most of my career in BA’s Revenue Management department and we only dealt with maximising revenue on aircraft, most noteably through overbooking. Putting passengers on buses is for operational reasons. Now working at the airport for them, BA...

Whatever happened to Global Airlines. Seemed to have disappeared since their two return trips.

Well against all the odds and financial common sense the first commercial flight between GLA and JFK has taken off. Good luck to them. would love to know how many passengers actually paid for their tickets…

I’ve been in the airline business for forty years and still don’t know what they’re trying to achieve. I’m not sure whether this is going to be a scheduled airline or a charter company. All their traffic is going to be point to point with no connecting traffic and even with dirt cheap give...

I did that once, it was a Sikorsky S-61 and it took just fifteen minutes, G-LINK operated by BCal helicopters I believe.

I’m not working today (phew). After chatting to my colleagues nearly everyone is blaming the Russians (without any evidence) even senior BA management! The last time I remember Heathrow being totally closed was when the volcano in Iceland went off. We were still at work during that but I can...

I did ’revenue management’ for BA for around twenty years! Yes, it was me that decided how far to overbook flights. In the department individuals were each responsible for a small number of routes where we knew the characteristics of each route booking wise. I wouldn’t mind doing the same for...