The Return of Woody...

[OFSO]

Hundreds of British Airways passengers are stranded in Johannesburg after a series of problems affected links to and from London Heathrow.

The latest problem: Tuesday night’s A380 “SuperJumbo” from South Africa’s main airport was fully boarded and ready to depart on schedule – but, after passengers had sat on board for a further two hours, BA delayed the flight overnight.We had to disembark, trudge back through passport control, collect our bags and go to a hotel overnight,” one passenger, Deborah Stone said.

According to information at ba.com, of three British Airways flights due to depart on Tuesday from Johnannesburg to Heathrow, only one got away: the BA56 service originally due to leave on Monday.

[Woody]

Hundreds of British Airways passengers are stranded in Johannesburg after a series of problems affected links to and from London Heathrow.

The latest problem: Tuesday night’s A380 “SuperJumbo” from South Africa’s main airport was fully boarded and ready to depart on schedule – but, after passengers had sat on board for a further two hours, BA delayed the flight overnight.We had to disembark, trudge back through passport control, collect our bags and go to a hotel overnight,” one passenger, Deborah Stone said.

According to information at ba.com, of three British Airways flights due to depart on Tuesday from Johnannesburg to Heathrow, only one got away: the BA56 service originally due to leave on Monday.

Not scheduled to return from CPT until next Tuesday, when hopefully things will have settled down a little , though I might have a word with JimtheRev

[PHXPhlyer]

Not scheduled to return from CPT until next Tuesday, when hopefully things will have settled down a little , though I might have a word with JimtheRev

Staying within the Chain of Command.

PP

[jimtherev]

Not scheduled to return from CPT until next Tuesday, when hopefully things will have settled down a little , though I might have a word with JimtheRev

How many times do I have to tell you: I'm sales, not operations!

[tango15]

Not scheduled to return from CPT until next Tuesday, when hopefully things will have settled down a little , though I might have a word with JimtheRev

How many times do I have to tell you: I'm sales, not operations!

[Rwy in Sight]

No special inter-departmental connections Jim?

[jimtherev]

No special inter-departmental connections Jim?

Ah well, that reminds me of a company I once worked for. Send a memo interdepartmentally or, notoriously, to the boss, and you always got a reply.

But the reply sometimes seemed to be years in coming, and crucially it was often not what one wanted to hear...

[Rwy in Sight]

Jim, not what one to hear might be as bad than going through two pages of an answer and not getting nothing more than company parlance.

[Pontius Navigator]

Once I had a particular correspondent whose style was both verbose and obscure. I responded in the same style and deliberately missed the point. I knew he was on leave and duly despatched the file into the system safe in the knowledge that I would be on leave and posted before he returned.

Sadly his deputy fielded the file and asked me for the short version.

[OFSO]

Have the 380s resumed carving a trench in the sky between Joburg and LHR yet?

When the Offshore Ayatollah was marooned in Port Harcourt after a diving job, his employer sent a biz jet to fly him back. Hope BA wil show such generosity...

[Woody]

Have the 380s resumed carving a trench in the sky between Joburg and LHR yet?

Yes they are, but taking about an hour longer due to the Niger airspace closure.

CPT flights only about 10 minutes longer than normal.