Get your child a personalised British Airways and My 1st Years backpack

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• Nick says:

  4 Aug4 August 04:41

  for those of us supposed to be flying home on 5/6th who foots the bill for hotels if BA cancel our flight and can’t get us home on the same day?

  Due to fly JFK to LHR on 6th, I’m aware they have many flights so should be okay, guess might have to take a downgrade from F thought.

  • Shoestring says:

    4 Aug4 August 05:06

    BA (the operating airline) – duty of care rules EC261

  • ChrisC says:

    4 Aug4 August 09:48

    BA is unlikely to cancel Long haul flights. It usually takes out short haul first.

    If it does cancel a flight on a route like JFK- LHR then it has plenty of other flights (plus AA) to move people onto..

    • Lady London says:

      4 Aug4 August 12:56

      +1. For sure.

      If BA cancel a short haul under thèse curcumstances then i will take a bet it’s lightly loaded and thé strike was a good excuse.

• Daniel says:

  4 Aug4 August 05:06

  Looks like you can have two lines of text on the backpack. One 9 letter and the second 10 letters.

• David says:

  4 Aug4 August 05:09

  Phew – on a purely selfish note we fly back on the 19th 😎👍

• Shoestring says:

  4 Aug4 August 05:16

  there’s no destination/ ticket check at Security – & whilst I guess the security staff could ask if you’re flying BA, it’s not going to be a very perfect system – ie I imagine a lot of people not using the check in desks will arrive at the gate with a big cabin bag & get told to check it in

  or will they? By this stage it would be *extra* time needed to relieve passengers of their cabin bag, just because they didn’t know the new rules

  or they arrive at Security with their cabin bag, having queued for what is maybe likely to be 20 mins or more, get noticed as flying BA. & get told to go back to the check in desks to check it in

  • Sam G says:

    4 Aug4 August 06:35

    Personally I can imagine things like wheely bags, large holdalls – very easy things to spot, being sent back to check in. But laptops and other reasonable smaller items are most likely to cause an argument going through.

    In my experience laptops aren’t a big cause of delay as they are seperated, it’s massive bags where someone has liquids or cables or something else the security cannot identify in there

    • Sam G says:

      4 Aug4 August 06:35

      *Separated

      • Derek Scott says:

        4 Aug4 August 07:59

        Laptops are an issue because of risk complexity, not size, it’s easy to screen a bottle of perfume under 100mls in comparison to a laptop. The reduced number I’d screeners means trying to reduce items of risk going though. Everything going through security still has to be screened, so the less volume, size and complexity the better as each search, handsearch just slows the whole system down.

        If this helps… just remember the plane with a hole blown in it because of explosive material hidden inside a laptops workings, that went unnoticed through screening. I’ve done a screeners job… it ain’t easy in the time you have

  • marcw says:

    4 Aug4 August 10:11

    BA will have staff before the security. There they’ll screen passengers. Now that’s easy to do in LHR T5… not sure about T3.

    • Derek Scott says:

      4 Aug4 August 17:20

      BA’s website states that all Airlines are being asked to follow the same restrictions so there should be no issue with it being airline dependant as to whether you can carry more than personal item size only

  • Craig says:

    4 Aug4 August 14:04

    Also, you can’t put a lithium battery in the hold. Just say that’s the type tube laptop uses.

• James says:

  4 Aug4 August 07:18

  Backpack words “I am on strike” Ba bringing teenager years to 1 year olds…

  Other words possible its not my fault its your fault

• Andrew says:

  4 Aug4 August 07:20

  It sounds like one of those things where BA are trying to enforce a rule that doesn’t exist and most people adhere to things they are told at airports (can I see your boarding pass at WHSmith – no you can’t because you are going to claim the VAT back if I’m flying outside the EU, but charge me the same – you are within your rights to politely refuse). So I would think if it’s not a Heathrow rule you can take through what you want and no one will stop you.

  • Chrisasaurus says:

    4 Aug4 August 10:11

    Could be wrong but I thought WHSmiths long with Boots were on the list of firms who agreed to discount the vat element?

    Seems strange to me that Smith’s are still around outside of airports. They’re just Hudson News to me and I suspect much of the travelling public – I’ll psy $9 for aspirin if I’m in an airport and have a headache but I dont think I’ve set foot inside a High St Smith’s in two decades

• Andrew says:

  4 Aug4 August 07:31

  If the main issue was laptops why don’t they just say no laptops?

  • Shoestring says:

    4 Aug4 August 07:40

    maybe they are hoping a lot of gullible people will check in their laptops? (to save a bit more time at Security)

    thus making checking in laptops a personal choice of the passenger, as opposed to BA requesting it & being liable for damaged/ missing laptops later

  • Lady London says:

    4 Aug4 August 13:00

    I am sure a laptop bag can normally be carried instead of a handbag, as well as 1 cabin bagage.

• David Gillan says:

  4 Aug4 August 08:40

  Interesting to read what the BA website actually states:- “You’ll only be allowed to take one small personal item of hand baggage that can fit under the seat in front of you. Any additional items of hand baggage must be checked in.” My rucksack easily fits under the seat in front so that will be OK then?

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