Ba To Shed 12,000 Jobs,

[Bobbisox1]

Always terrible when you hear this but I fear it’s the tip of the iceberg

[iluvmargie]

20:42, can't help but agree.

[mushroom25]

// I offered to change seats with the woman so they could spend the flight together //

when people do that, it really messes with the accident investigators.... :-)

[jno]

I know, I had to ask the stewardess to tell the pilot not to crash into anything. (Not least because it musses my hair.)

[naomi24]

I've never known that with BA, jno. We choose our seats when we book our flights. I can only think that you were ahead of them in the queue then and they got was left.

[Bobbisox1]

I listened to LBC last night when I went to bed,a lady ( I use the term loosely) called Ursula with a cut glass accent phoned it with
“ Good, I’m pleased they’re losing their jobs, I travel the world at leisure and those pilots went on strike last year stopping me flying to the Caribbean ,so I’m pleased BA are in trouble, and I don’t care as I’m thick skinned”

I seriously thought “ This person sounds very familiar” then Nah can’t be, haha

But what a positively horrible person she was

[andy-hughes]

Bobbi - // I travel the world at leisure and those pilots went on strike last year stopping me flying to the Caribbean ,so I’m pleased BA are in trouble, and I don’t care as I’m thick skinned” //

If the lady can afford to 'travel the world at leisure', there is nothing at all stopping her circumventing a strike by one airline by simply booking with another.

Not only is she 'thick skinned', she appears to be merely thick as well.

[Bobbisox1]

She was a horrible nasty person Andy

[jno]

it was quite a few years ago, naomi (not sure how many). It was still the norm to get your seats at check-in - one of the points of doing so was so that this sort of anomaly could be sorted before boarding.

It was no problem agreeing to it, but mushroom has a good point about the usefulness of it being arranged properly in advance. And 99 times out of 100 that was and is what happens.