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RS: I changed the title of the from British Airways Crash so as not to mislead people. If anyone had a relative/friend flying with BA today they might have been unnecessarily concerned.
RS: I changed the title of the from British Airways Crash so as not to mislead people. If anyone had a relative/friend flying with BA today they might have been unnecessarily concerned.
Has anyone tried to communicate with BA recently
I am somewhere in the middle of a very long and surreal online conversation with BA. You couldn't make it up. I received a number of replies most of which appeared to answer other peoples similar queries.
Last November my wife and I flew BA premium economy to Hong Kong. Before flying, I emailed them to complain that asking for extra payment to choose a seat in advance made BA feel like Ryanair and was unjustified in view of the high cost of premium economy.
I received a surreal reply apologising for our unhappy flight experience. I had clearly stated that we had not yet travelled. They also confirmed unsurprisingly that the seat fee was company policy.
I then responded that I was fully aware of and reluctantly accepted their unreasonable charges but was additionally disappointed that BA had not carefully read my first email about our upcoming travel plans.
I then received a reply using different words but essentially saying the same things as the first email. My second email was also clearly misunderstood or was a reply to someone else's email.
There then followed 3/4 exchanges where I explained that I was no longer complaining about the fee and rephrasing my second complaint. Each BA response appeared to respond to a question not asked.
Eventually I asked them to send me copies of both our emails as their site does not store correspondence.
After some time I got a file from the personal data file department enclosing only their replies. (I had not actually asked to see my personal data file). When I asked them for copies of my queries they said they had enclosed them but hadn't. They then instructed me to henceforth deal only with the original complaints outfit.
I will continue with the complaint regardless as it is now amusing.
Incidentally the flights were fine.
TP2.