Good British Airways sale fares to the US and Canada for the Winter

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• Andrew M says:

  16 May16 May 05:17

  I should imagine some Rachel’s out there might feel a bit peeved. Lol.

  • JamesB says:

    16 May16 May 05:57

    I can imagine one particular Harry might squeeze the maximum possible value out of this one!

    • Optimus Prime says:

      16 May16 May 06:11

      Harry Potter?

      • JamesB says:

        16 May16 May 06:59

        No, not him but this Harry also has a habit of disappearing.

    • The Original Nick says:

      16 May16 May 07:01

      Yes, where has Harry gone?

      • Worzel says:

        16 May16 May 07:21

        I am informed that Harry Lionel Len Squills esq is quietly residing at Squills Towers 🙂 .

      • the real harry1 says:

        16 May16 May 20:14

        @Worzel, @friends – tripped over the cat, somewhat pissed, fell down the stairs, broke 4 ribs, thought nothing of it though wife said enough is enough, 10 days later lung lining filled up with blood & fluid as I pierced it (collapsed lung or similar) & I couldn’t breathe except short panicked breaths in middle of night with a lot of pain from ribs so thought death imminent/ heart attack/ major pain across chest, crawled to kitchen & got aspirin, ibuprofen, paracetamol down my neck & waited for dawn

        got the kids sorted (wife was in Germany) & called ambulance car, did tests, luckily she said heart attack not likely but it’s something serious, carted me off to hospital where I jumped all the January queues in A&E as urgent and they drained off all the fluid in my lung lining with an extremely painful operation to get the draining tube in the right place with some medic students watching, was supposed to be 3 minutes of pain but turned out 15 mins of quite bad pain as the junior needed to call over his mentor to sort it out, a pain you can endure, ultimately but bloody painful, didn’t want to shout out or cry in front of the crowd so just grimaced & said ‘that’s painful, ouch’ – basically they had to cut through 5 layers of skin to get the tube in and local anaesthetic wasn’t much help except for the first layer

        all went swimmingly until, fluid drained, I got serious pneumonia ie the kind that kills 30K people pa in UK, the infection feeds off the gunk left in your lungs, got IV antibiotics and 5 nights in hospital, then more antibiotics plus about 10 other drugs & home, still not brilliant 4 months later ie lungs about 50% though I can do long walks on the flat, the minute I go uphill they conk out

        anyway, I was surrounded on the intensive care ward by mortality, another load of people (8 on one, 5 on the other) mostly dying of thoracic stuff with awful noises all the time, most of them 70-85 with very serious conditions, no sleep for 5 days & nights until I got a sleeping pill prescribed, reality check I just decided to get healthy if possible & keep my own counsel for a bit, I am alive, sorry to anybody I upset with caustic or homophobic comments in the past

        harry

      • Lyn says:

        16 May16 May 20:31

        Harrry, goodness what a lot you have gone through! Thank you for sharing it, welcome back to the land of the living and HfP, and the very best of luck with your recovery. A lot of people have missed you.

      • Genghis says:

        16 May16 May 21:13

        It certainly puts this hobby into perspective. All the best in the recovery TRH1

        • Rob says:

          16 May16 May 21:15

          Welcome back 🙂

      • JamesB says:

        16 May16 May 22:12

        Welcome back Harry, hope you get all the way better soon, 300 clubcard points waiting for you on the new NowTV sticks and 10 free sales at eBay.

      • Cate says:

        16 May16 May 22:54

        Welcome back Harry – we’ve missed you!!

    • Mike says:

      16 May16 May 07:24

      I miss Harry

      • Terry says:

        16 May16 May 08:47

        I miss him too, does anyone really know why has he disappeared?

      • Tom Cook says:

        16 May16 May 11:02

        +1

      • Mr Dee says:

        16 May16 May 14:12

        He found several Tesco deals and it currently touring the country for the items.

      • Worzel says:

        17 May17 May 06:49

        @ Squills 20:14.

        A lot of disbelievers on this site-I’ve mentioned a couple of times that you’re fine…….

        I’m sure you’ve now perfected your aim at the cats’ backside!

        Worz 🙂 .

• Anna says:

  16 May16 May 06:38

  BA will be mucking up more than a few people’s heads holidays at very short notice with these cancellations. What is their obligation to the passengers affected? I had a transatlantic flight cancelled a course me of years ago, BA flatly refused to put us on an alternative carrier so we ended up having to cut short our holiday by 2 days because there were no other BA flights before the date by which we needed to be back home for work.

  • Anna says:

    16 May16 May 06:38

    Couple of years even!

  • JamesB says:

    16 May16 May 07:07

    They have capacity of their own to both LAX and SFO/OAK. given their joint venture, I imagine they would also use AA to LAX. It would not surprise me if these cancellations owed more to weak demand across these flights at these times than simply to 787 issues.

• paulm says:

  16 May16 May 06:42

  OT but on BA. Appears BA are finally part of TSA Pre, you can now add your KTN to bookings.

  • Nick_C says:

    16 May16 May 07:22

    I had Tsa pre check when I flew back from NY on BA on Monday night. I’ve never applied for it or paid for it, but I always get it on AA, and got it once on UA.

    A passenger flying F cut in on front of me at security (as she was entitled to as I was flying CW). No idea who she was but the ground staff were all over her. I watched her load her LV bags onto the belt and take her shoes off to line up for the scanner, and took her pleasure in keeping mine on and walking past.

    • Anna says:

      16 May16 May 07:41

      That happened to me – a young man laden with designer shopping bags and accompanied by some kind of personal assistant with a Heathrow ID badge. Security made him empty every one of the shopping bags while the PA looked on in obvious discomfort!

• ee says:

  16 May16 May 06:47

  Mmm we have a 2 for 1 booked in F for December outward to San Jose return from San Diego.

  The issues with the 789s look likely to continue for a while so I’m resigned to the fact we may get a reroute to SFO. We’re planning a few days in Monterey at the start of the break and fortunately the shuttle bus routes from SFO via San Jose. Would be disappointed not to try the 789 in F though!

  • Matt says:

    16 May16 May 07:06

    My partner and I travelled on the 789 F from Kuala Lumpar back to London in March. This was due to an upgrade at the boarding gate (on a Avios 2-4-1 booking). I think it was a really nice high quality looking and feeling product, and I definitely thought it felt more special than F on BA’s A380. Sorry you probably don’t want to hear that though :p

  • Andrew says:

    16 May16 May 08:29

    Thanks! That’s really useful to know about the shuttle between Monterey and SFO.

    Even with Google, finding public transport routes in the US is a bit hit and miss – I’ve turned up for a service only to find that the owner-operator has decided to take a day off.

    When we visited Monterey last year we ended up taking the Caltrain from San Francisco to San Jose and the local bus company service coach to Monterey. Large comfortable coach and everything worked well – but limited times.

    The Intercontinental at Monterey is superb, I’m planning on a return trip.

  • Tilly says:

    16 May16 May 09:55

    That’s a shame if you miss out. Flew out last week in F on a 787-9 and loved it …… my first F experience.

    My only little moan would be, as I’m not that tall my feet only just reached the footstool even with it pulled out, so to comfortably put my feet up I had to recline the seat moving it forward. Great if you’re a taller person.

• David says:

  16 May16 May 06:58

  The Narita flights also cancelled for most of June

  • JohnNI says:

    16 May16 May 10:26

    I didn’t get an email but on checking manage my bookings our flight to Narita for the 11th of June had been cancelled. Have been rebooked on a flight into Haneda on same day on a 777. We were looking forward to our F flight on the Dreamliner. Other annoying thing is we had booked transfers from NRT and appears we will lose the money we paid.

    • John says:

      16 May16 May 21:08

      and worse, a lot less (if any) time in the CCR

      For future reference, theres never any need to prebook NRT onward transport into Tokyo.

      Enjoy Japan, its fabulous!

• LeeT says:

  16 May16 May 07:01

  According to FT it looks as if BA have cancelled Narita as well for around 3 weeks in June.

  • Omar says:

    16 May16 May 07:14

    I had assumed the Narita flights would be unaffected since most of the flying is overland. I believe one of the new rules for the 789 was to be no further than 90 mins away from a landing strip? I am flying 789 F end of July, would be upsetting to have that changed.

    • Nick says:

      16 May16 May 10:29

      It’s not about flying over land, it’s about available diversion airports. Think about it – you really don’t want to be landing in the middle of a Siberian forest any more than you do the mid-Atlantic.

      NRT flights tend to route over the Russian Arctic, where airports are few and far between. A reroute further south is possible but not within range limits of the aircraft, so you’d have to stop (e.g. in Novosibirsk) for fuel – not ideal. SEZ flights have been taking a 90-minute-longer route for the last few weeks but at least they can still get there in one hop.

    • John says:

      16 May16 May 21:09

      the over land restriction doesn’t apply to BA aircraft – this is a differing/rescheduling issue

• Benji says:

  16 May16 May 07:10

  I was booked on one of the cancelled SJC flights in J on a 2-4-1. BA emailed last week to say it was cancelled, but when I called they were very happy to re-book us onto either the SFO or OAK flight the same day (even when the SFO flights were not showing redemption seats as being available). They did try to push us onto a connection through DFW, but I wasn’t having that!

  The call centre person didn’t seem to have much of a clue though – she initially tried looking a couple of days either side, and then told me that SJC to OAK was 380 miles so not a valid re-route (Google maps soon cleared that one up – its about 35 miles). I’d suggest knowing what your preferred option is before you call.

  • ee says:

    16 May16 May 07:17

    Any experience of them entertaining BA London-NY F then a Transcontinental F NY-SFO? That’s an indirect routing I could be tempted to take.

• Matt Black says:

  16 May16 May 07:25

  I was able to get an outbound in club to Seattle with return in wtp from Vegas over the Easter holidays next year (which I immediately uua), plus a weeks hotel in Vegas for just over £1600 pp which I thought was pretty good. Nice only having to pay 10% deposit too

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