BA1482 LHR-GLA 6 JAN 19 (Economy)
Posted: 22 May 2019, 17:15
Now it wouldn’t be a Fuzzy returning home from Florida trip report without some kind of adventurous story. And here we go. We were doing 3 flights on the return leg and the first two had gone really well, so found ourselves on a plane at Heathrow at 0940 the problem being our next flight was at 1030. On a different plane.
We got off the plane as quick as we could and found a crew member standing at the end of the jet bridge aware that we were coming, she noted our names and said the next flight were also aware of us coming. So we made our way from T5B satellite to T5 proper and the joys that is UK Border. This is where I was panicking as I’ve had trouble here in the past (which resulted in me spending 8 hours drinking in the Galleries, but not with kids in tow). Surprisingly, the UK Border was quiet and we were soon processed, and then onward to security because despite coming off a plane Heathrow insist on re-scanning. Again a bit of a hurry but we managed to get through by 1015 and the departure boards saying the gate was about to close!
Note it was only afterwards I realised I had liquids in my bag from the previous flight but security hadn’t picked up on it.
A quick dash across T5 to the far gate to find people were still queuing up to get on the plan so we had made it and I could indeed relax. Then I received the text
BABAGGAGE > We are sorry to report that 5 checked bags did not reach your flight.
This is different but not entirely surprising given we’d only just made the flight ourselves. Indeed, they were probably still taking the bags off the last plane.
The flight up to Glasgow was nothing much to report, the youngest had went back to sleep and the others stared at their phones for an hour. Nobody seemed hungry for the squashed things I had picked up on the last flight.
On arrival we presented ourselves to the lost baggage office, filled in a form and started receiving a lot of text messages. Having never lost baggage before we first got a text to say they knew where our bags were (great) and then they were on the 1640 flight, and then had been handed over to a courier company to deliver to us (I wanted to nip down to the airport that evening to collect.) It now being 1830 on a Sunday evening we didn’t hear from the courier company until the Monday morning, while I was at work. Felt it was a lost opportunity to get the bags the same day but it all ended up good apart from a few cans of beer which didn’t make it and soaked all the clothes.
Verdict: Just yer usual BA domestic flight, highly efficient. First time the family had been dragged thru T5, plane to plane in 40 minutes must be a record. The kids were smashing and it didn’t put us off 3 flights, but will try to avoid if possible.
We got off the plane as quick as we could and found a crew member standing at the end of the jet bridge aware that we were coming, she noted our names and said the next flight were also aware of us coming. So we made our way from T5B satellite to T5 proper and the joys that is UK Border. This is where I was panicking as I’ve had trouble here in the past (which resulted in me spending 8 hours drinking in the Galleries, but not with kids in tow). Surprisingly, the UK Border was quiet and we were soon processed, and then onward to security because despite coming off a plane Heathrow insist on re-scanning. Again a bit of a hurry but we managed to get through by 1015 and the departure boards saying the gate was about to close!
Note it was only afterwards I realised I had liquids in my bag from the previous flight but security hadn’t picked up on it.
A quick dash across T5 to the far gate to find people were still queuing up to get on the plan so we had made it and I could indeed relax. Then I received the text
BABAGGAGE > We are sorry to report that 5 checked bags did not reach your flight.
This is different but not entirely surprising given we’d only just made the flight ourselves. Indeed, they were probably still taking the bags off the last plane.
The flight up to Glasgow was nothing much to report, the youngest had went back to sleep and the others stared at their phones for an hour. Nobody seemed hungry for the squashed things I had picked up on the last flight.
On arrival we presented ourselves to the lost baggage office, filled in a form and started receiving a lot of text messages. Having never lost baggage before we first got a text to say they knew where our bags were (great) and then they were on the 1640 flight, and then had been handed over to a courier company to deliver to us (I wanted to nip down to the airport that evening to collect.) It now being 1830 on a Sunday evening we didn’t hear from the courier company until the Monday morning, while I was at work. Felt it was a lost opportunity to get the bags the same day but it all ended up good apart from a few cans of beer which didn’t make it and soaked all the clothes.
Verdict: Just yer usual BA domestic flight, highly efficient. First time the family had been dragged thru T5, plane to plane in 40 minutes must be a record. The kids were smashing and it didn’t put us off 3 flights, but will try to avoid if possible.