Visited University of Glasgow a month ago for Adam Smith’s tercentenary and had a great time and all went easily. Flew Icelandair who were great.
Decided to come back to St Andrews to the 10th anniversary of my daughter’s wedding – postponed two year because of COVID. Event was great.
My first error was to book to fly Boston-Heathrow-Edinburgh arriving Thursday. Flight fine then we waited in the baggage hall for an hour and a quarter for any bags to come off. My golf clubs did clothes didn’t. No BA person in the hall to speak to some sign to scan. Nobody to help and website didn’t work I am now three hours in. I tried to find details from the website but it failed every time I tried.
Website kept failing no human being to talk too. Eventually spoke to someone on Friday who told me it was booked on a flight on Monday even tho I left Wednesday. Bag duly arrived Monday but too late for the event – I had to go to Dundee to buy shoes, trousers shirt and tie. BA getting a large bill.
Then off I trundled back to the US. Landed Boston at 705 and waited an hour and a half on the runway to get a gate. Huge Iines in customs bag did show up and then the bus to the hotel didn’t. Arrived hotel 3.5hrs after we landed
No word from BA. No apology.
BA sucks. There is a direct flight by Delta from Boston-Edinburgh
Angus Deaton told me BA was famous as it always would lose bags…
Exhausted. Done with BA
Danny B
Alan Chandler
You might call it “the economics of flying about”.
ShouldhavetravelledIcelandAir
To reverse the Einstein quote:
“Insanity: doing the thing differently over and over again and expecting the same results.”
ShouldhavetravelledIcelandAir
The predictions made in this article are not holding up well
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/austerity-something-britain-simply-cant-28328555
“inflation caused by increases in worldwide gas and food prices”
Ah, i’d beg to differ and argue that lack of free markets to adopt new tech and the increase in the money supply make a difference, but based on the text of the article we do seem to agree on not being a non-EU nation since Jan 2021 has dropped out of the inflation causes.