Heathrow Terminal 1 auctions off …. everything

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• HighestBidder says:

  8 Apr8 April 04:22

  T1 auction: You may jest….but a fool and his money are easily parted.

  • Save East Coast Rewards says:

    8 Apr8 April 07:48

    I’m thinking of buying the lift that used to go from the check-in area up to Spoons for the house ????

    I can see some people might be interested in some small memento of T1 if they were passing through it regularly but some of the items on there are a bit baffling. Such as the previously mentioned lift, as well as the fact I remember that lift being on its last legs last time I used it I thought these things would be custom built for the building.

    Then there’s certain things like display screens that I’m surprised HAL isn’t keeping hold of as spares for the other terminals.

    Did they do a similar auction for the old T2?

• Jk says:

  8 Apr8 April 05:15

  The UAE Etihad call centre is absolutely atrocious. God help anyone calling there…

• Nick says:

  8 Apr8 April 06:06

  WoW! What a great opportunity for BA to pick up something cheap and bid on some of the wooden seats to retrofit into some of their cabins. 🙂

  • JamesB says:

    8 Apr8 April 06:22

    I wouldn’t think so, BA are only into enhancements!

• Mike says:

  8 Apr8 April 06:21

  Have to disagree with JK re: Etihad UK Call Centre. I think they are excellent – if I call. First question is always “are you based in Manchester or Al Ain / Abu Dhabi”. If the latter, I hang up until I get someone from the UK. They are the only one who know the rules, how to book partner awards, can help with cancellations requiring insurance documents etc… if this closes, yet another reason to stop flying Etihad!

  • JamesB says:

    8 Apr8 April 06:26

    JK refers to UAE call centre, not UK. Agree with you on Manchester call centre, during the 2yr period I was flying Etihad they were great,

    • Jk says:

      9 Apr9 April 04:18

      Spot on. I think all 3 of us are very much in agreement 🙂

      • Talay says:

        12 Apr12 April 01:47

        However, with virtually free telephony these days across continents, why do you need multi site operations for call centres ?

        The answer of course is that you do unless you invest heavily in recruiting people from the countries you serve because if you merely employ a load of immigrants into the UAE from the poorer nations then you devalue the sharply declining brand even faster.

        However, on paper, it looks a financial no brainer. In practice, they will surely screw it up.

• Save East Coast Rewards says:

  8 Apr8 April 07:47

  It’s a shame they’re not allowing viewing of the lots on site I would have liked to take one last look around T1 before it’s completely stripped. Does anyone know of a way to make it happen? There’s probably a demand for such things, a bit like the tours round Crossrail sites recently.

  • Nick says:

    8 Apr8 April 10:09

    Most of the stuff in the auction has already been taken down and moved to a central location as part of the building works. Sadly the old T1 is now a shadow of its former self.

    • Save East Coast Rewards says:

      8 Apr8 April 20:37

      Is T1 still used to process T2 baggage or has a temporary building been made of the baggage handling so that T1 can get demolished?

• Lev441 says:

  8 Apr8 April 08:12

  O/T

  When I tried checking in to our flight for tomorrow, it said ‘check in unavailable’ on ba.com

  Checking on expert flyer, there was only 1 seat listed as available with a few seats listed as blocked. There’s two of us travelling. Should I be worried?

  • Peter K says:

    8 Apr8 April 08:29

    From what I’ve read on this site before then it sounds like you might have been downgraded ????

    • Lev441 says:

      8 Apr8 April 08:40

      Damn.. looked at the seat map in economy and premium economy and everything is full full full!

      No seats available to buy in any class either….

      If we have been downgraded what are our options..?

      • Bagoly says:

        8 Apr8 April 09:13

        Yes both times I saw similarity there were problems. One time they offered me downgrade from CW. As it as overnight I refused, and insisted on CW the next day. They upgraded me to First at the gate. They will pay for hotel at LHR. If due to overbooking, there is always the chance that someone does not turn up, so they will ask you to hang around until the 40 minutes before departure.

      • Nick says:

        8 Apr8 April 10:11

        You almost certainly haven’t been downgraded. This happens a fair bit, often caused by blocks under TS needing to be removed and rearranged. It’ll be handled by the check-in staff/FMU on the day. I know it’s annoying now, but try not to worry.

      • Nick says:

        8 Apr8 April 10:12

        And of course it could equally mean that someone needs to be UPgraded.

      • The other HfP Nick :-) says:

        8 Apr8 April 13:51

        As Nick says, I wouldn’t be too worried about this situation, as exactly the same has happened to me several times over the past couple of years with BA bookings. All seats appear to heve been booked/blocked, including on expertflyer.

        IMHO, I’ve no doubt it’ll be easily sorted at check in for you. That said, it may be worth checking in a bit earlier than normal. 🙂

      • Bonglim says:

        9 Apr9 April 08:25

        Happened to me twice:
        – First time UPGRADED.
        – Second time very excited….. then told I had to be bumped to the next flight. Still got some compensation which for me on that particular time was a good result.

    • Lady London says:

      8 Apr8 April 14:06

      Or, possibly, you might have potentially been upgraded.

      • Lev441 says:

        8 Apr8 April 17:14

        Thanks all.

        Will see what happens when I get to the airport. People I know who were travelling today got bumped off as did several others so who know what’s going to happen!

  • Clive says:

    8 Apr8 April 10:23

    There can be simple problems such as documents which need to be checked as I had this on my return from HK recently although my profile is up to date.

  • john says:

    8 Apr8 April 11:10

    Happened to my brother recently and all was fine/normal when he checked in at airport. I had it also on a first trip to PHX due to SSSS on boarding pass (extra security check at gate).

  • Delbert says:

    8 Apr8 April 13:12

    Had this on Easter weekend for our return Avios redemption Club Europe AMS – LGW flight. I checked in twenty-four hours before the flight on the BA app but couldn’t check my wife in for love nor money. My wife was thinking that she would be flying in cattle while I was in business and was quite upset. I phoned BA to ask if my wife was being bumped to cattle and the lady was very helpful and quite emphatic that she wasn’t and informed me to go to the boarding pass machine at AMS and print out her boarding pass which I did and everything was fine. Not sure what that was all about.

• Cate ⛱️ says:

  8 Apr8 April 10:17

  The Latam voucher’s handy. I think it’s one of the only biz airlines I’d go out of my way to book.

• Rash says:

  8 Apr8 April 10:27

  O/T Has anyone had experience of their Marriott points going missing? I had built some up during the NFL tweet promos, and now when I login my points are showing as zero!

  • Brian says:

    8 Apr8 April 11:06

    Check your history – your account might have been hacked.

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