British Airways
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British Airways Reviews
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Stan8928
October 9, 2009
Refunds
Bought two full-fare First Class Tickets on British Airways on 8/13/09, charged to my AMEX Card.
Cancelled the trip about four weeks later (9/9/09), returned the tickets to British Airways.
British Airways claimed they refunded the tickets on 9/28/09, sent a copy of the "electronic ticket record" indicating the tickets had been refunded (no amount though), and repeatedly told my travel agent and I the tickets were fully-refunded. Nothing has appeared on my AMEX account since (it's now 10/9/09).
British Airways refuses to respond to FAX'es, telephone calls (you cannot call their "refund department"), and refuses to supply a copy of what they submitted to AMEX to process the refund/credit.
It's obvious they never submitted anything to AMEX. This is nothing more than intentional misrepresentation and fraud.
Their "customer service" is non-existent and their arrogance is intolerable. Being cordial gets you nowhere with these schmucks and being nasty gets you equally nowhere.
We filed complaints against BA with our State's Attorney General, the Department of Transportation, and the Airline Reporting Corporation (who processes their tickets/payments in the US). Next stop is Small Claims Court - for the contract damages of $1, 844, plus tort damages of $25, 000 for their fraud, misrepresentation, conversion, and deceit.
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Mandy Rai
October 2, 2009
British Airway Sucks
British Airways sucks big time on the refund or change policy. We had books tickets from Dallas to Delhi. Recently we discovered my husband had brain tumor. He is in the hospital for nearly 9 days by the time our travel he will not be recovered. I emailed and called british airways on my options. They responded really rude. Would not issue any refund, the change fee is $270 per ticket and the ticket is only valid for year from the purchase to which we had planned this tip almost 7 months ago now we have to pay $270 per ticket to change or no refund. We may not be able to travel within 5 months because of my husband. I asked for manager, and the rep responded really rude either you cancel or pay change fee no other options. I would not recommend British Airways to anyone. Crazy! BTW they didn't even offer any insurance policy when I purchased the tickets.
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julie mackay
September 15, 2009
Staff
On the 7th Sep my father, mother and I flew with B.A flight no.2938. My Parents were flying club class and I was travelling economy. We boarded our flight and showed our passports and boarding cards. I then left my parents. Later we had still not taken off and my father came back to see if I had my mothers passport. It then came acrros the loadspeaker that one of the passengers had lost their passport. I went up to club class where the staff were preparing to throw my parents off the plane. My mother was in shock and indicated that she was going to be sick. The staff were fully prepared to let her be sick all over herself and I had to get her a sick bag. The head stewardess made no effort to comfort her and was rude and abrupt. She then asked me to ask my mother, (who was also on crutches) to leave the plane. Why, being British citizen's is B.A allowed to leave us in a foreign country with no papers? When my father put on his jacket to leave the plane, the passport fell out of his sleeve. The steward had taken his jacket to hang it up and had folded it instead causung his wallet and my mother's passport to fall out. The rude Air Stewardess then told me to leave and go back to economy, even though there was a free seat next to my parent's and my mother was still in a terrible state. She told me they would look after my mother and that I could not come back to check on her. My mother was repeatedly sick and nobody bothered to take the full sick bags away or give her new ones which resulted in her being sick all over herself. She then had to go and wash out her dress and travelled the rest of the journey soaking wet. Nobody asked her if she was ok or feeling any better and she was unable to enjoy the perks of club class due to the misery she had been put through. The attitude of the head stewardess was disgusting and we will never fly with B.A again. We have been loyal customers to them over the years but i'm sure they would treat animals with more consideration than we were shown. Especially as it turned out to be their mistake. No apology was given and when I contacted the customer services in Kingston. They had reported that a customer had lost their passport and then found it causing delay of the plane. It was not mentioned that they were responsible and had made a passenger sick and extremely distressed.
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Jack Siler
September 13, 2009
Date Change Scam
Scandalous, misleading British Airways date change policy! I've flown Transatlantic around 150 times. It's for business and my return date is rarely certain so I almost always pay a penalty for the return date change. I was advised that the BA charge was 120 Euros which is higher than most, but I was prepared to live with it, because the ticket was reasonable. Before the return (9/2/09) date I asked for the change and was advised that there were NO TICKETS AVAILABLE IN THAT CATEGORY DURING THE ENTIRE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER!! The cost to change the date would be $470!!
It may be in their fine print, but it is so unrelated to what any other airline charges that it makes the RT fare higher than any airline I looked at. It's a scam. WATCH OUT!! They'll never see me again.
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cheryl hill
July 18, 2009
No compensation
I'm writing on behalf of my friend, Magriet van Dijk, who booked and paid for a flight from heathrow to Cape Town. BA59 12.6.09 @ 19h25. She handed in her luggage but needed the cloakrooms urgently. By the time she got back and went through seurity, they told her she was no longer on that flight and that her luggage had been removed. It cost her a further R3850 for another ticket. I understand there might be penalties etc for her coming late, but surely she is entitled to some sort of refund seeing that her ticket was probably sold to someone else? She flies Cape Town/Heathrow return several times a year, she does care work in the UK, so needless to say she won't be making use of their services again!
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John V White
July 14, 2009
Dodging Complaints
My son and daughter were recently booked on a flight from London Heathrow to Jeddah on the 20 June. The flight was delayed and they were given boarding crads that clearly stated the new gate closing time was 2130hrs. When they arrived at the gate at 2120Hrs they were told that the gate was closed and their bags were being unloaded and they could not board, consequently missiong the flight.
I subsequently wrote to BA regarding this matter as I had personally purchased the tickets in Saudi Arabia for my son and daughter and they were booked in under my BA Frequent Flyer Family membership number.
The reply I received from BA Customer Relations was, to quote:
"I'm afraid as per the Data Protection Act 1998, we cannot discuss passenger's issue with any third party - this includes family members/friends"
This appears to be a case totally avoiding the issue and hiding behind some sort of legislation more aligned to politics than a commercial business.
Hardly surprising less people are now flying BA if this is the level of Customer service that is now provided by BA
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jameelsaman
July 9, 2009
cheated to me job offer
sir as im jameelsaman i m from india frist they r send the job offer from britishairways for flight exicutive ref no.008/013L/UKPF/T4-TL after that send the uk visa application forn they ask the passport copy, address agrement of british airwys after send the the account no, and holder name (ACCOUNT NAME : HONREI SHANGLAI
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 30794258769
PAN NUMBER: AJEP6003E
BANK NAME: STATE BANK OF INDIA
AMOUNT : RS 69, 300
pls invisticate the cheeting for indians plz give the response for my hurtim mentally abset this cheeting plz do somehing to me becasu im left my job (take risk to arrange for all things money certificate this is one country problem plz takecare just i m attach they send the passport copy head officer mr james and his offer letter
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alastair
July 6, 2009
genuine mistake
I refer to the above booking which was made from my office on Thursday 2nd. July.
I did not pick up the e-mail until Sunday 5th. July, immediately on doing so I telephone your customer services to inform them that a mistake was made in booking I have two sons Joshua and Benjamin, the the ticket was inadvertently booked in the name of Benjamin instead of Joshua.
I was told somewhat robustly that rules did not allow any changes whatsoever and the only alternative was to cancel the ticket and rebook and this would mean that I would be fined the total cost of the ticket.
When I requested that I be pointed out the rules that precluded amending a genuine mistake I was advised there was none. As a long standing BA customer of some 55 years (my first flight as a boy flying into Northolt) and as an executive club member 12000764 I cannot understand for the life of me especially in this time of trouble why I am being treated like this.
Please can I at least have some action before you descend into the depth of Easy Jet and Ryanair.
Alastair Macleod
Chairman
Hand & Lock
www.handembroidery.com
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Tony
June 29, 2009
Awful airlines
A week ago I had a flight from Washington to Delphi with a connection in London. It was quite an experience. First, we departed Washington two hours late because the plane was not ready to leave on time. Because of the delay I missed my second flight to Delphi and had to spend all night in the London-Heathrow Airport. British Airways told us that there are no hotel rooms available and all they gave us were blankets, watter, and food stamps.
Second, on my arrival I discovered that my luggage is missing. It's been a week and I am still calling British Airways asking for the whereabouts of my bag.
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Carmelo Perez Rull
June 2, 2009
Poor plane conditions
Dear Sr.
RE:
Name of the passengers: Carmelo Perez Rull
Marian Fabrega
Name of the Company: British Air ways
Fliht: BA 677
From Istanbul to London
Date: 31.05.2009
Seats: 35-E and 35D.
I just want to express my sincere disappointment with British Airways regarding the following points:
1. Health and safety: When we just sat down, we found dirty knickers of an adult lady below our seat (35D)
2. Enterntainment: The tv headphones of a couple of rows where we were seating did not work. Therefore we didn't see the film making our journey a little boring
3. Environment condidtion: the air conditioning didn't work properly. As a result my wife felt dizzy because of the lack of ventilation
4. Deterioration of the plane: the armrest of the seating in front of mine kept falling on my feet because it was loose
Since I have been very loyal to your services for a long time. I think I deserve an explanation.
Yours Sincerely,
Carmelo Perez Rull
E-mail: [email protected]
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