shocking news but praise is due

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I don't think the airlines will have too much trouble with their schedules tommorrow, due to the large number of cancelled flights today.[/quote]
Actually Shirley, just the opposite is true. The airlines will have massive problems with their schedules today, for the very reason that they cancelled a lot of flights yesterday. For example, BA cancelled over 200 flights yesterday, over a third of it's planned operations, and that's just from Heathrow. That means that this morning, all those aircraft are not where they are supposed to be, and that has impacts all over the network. It'll be next week at the earliest by the time everything is back to normal.

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<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by linda allen
Lets get this into perspective. Intellegence has never been better. They foiled this barbaric attempt. It has no comparison with 9/11 or 7/7. We should be congratulating the forces involved and thanking our lucky stars that no one was hurt.
We cannot live our lives avoiding things because of what might happen. I remember not so long ago it was thought there was a terror target on big shopping centers in the uk as well as football stadiums.
BA and other airlines can and will cope with the extra security. So what an extra hour or so for safety, when you get to Florida or where ever your destination is it will be worth it.
Lets not let these very few people ruin our lives.

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That's a great sentiment Linda, and I agree with you. But unfortunately a lot of the flying public won't agree. Americans are notorious for staying at home at the slightest provocation (my apologies to all our American friends) and something like this will impact load factors. I guarantee that when BA next announce their business figures, they will have dropped below predicted figures, and BA will blame yesterday for a large part of that.

[Katys Grandad]

At best, there will be a few cancellations. At worst, greatly reduced bookings.

I agree with every sentiment expressed on here about not letting terorists dictate the way we live our lives but people have a choice as to whether they spend their money on flying. I can't see many being encouraged to take more trips by what has happened or by the security response.

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BA has just extended it's system freeze until Monday at the the earliest. This is an indication that they expect large scale rebookings of passengers and associated aircraft movements - so expect the chaos to continue over the weekend.

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<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Sniff
BA has just extended it's system freeze until Monday at the the earliest. This is an indication that they expect large scale rebookings of passengers and associated aircraft movements - so expect the chaos to continue over the weekend.
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BA just extended their software freeze yet again, this time until 08:00 GMT on Wednesday 16th August. This implies that they expect disruption on their flight schedules until at least then.

[Jill]

It will be interesting to see what the long term outcome of all this is on travel to and from the continent as BAA have told airlines they need a 30%, now downgraded to 20%, cut in the number of flights to operate normally. Will this mean we will now see an increase in the number of flights operating both short and long haul from more regional airports.

I wonder how long it is going to take to clear the backlog of cargo and overseas mail that has not been flowing into and out of the country since last week as carriers have had to allocate extra space in the holds for hand luggage and the time for all the additional checks.

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<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Jill
It will be interesting to see what the long term outcome of all this is on travel to and from the continent as BAA have told airlines they need a 30%, now downgraded to 20%, cut in the number of flights to operate normally. Will this mean we will now see an increase in the number of flights operating both short and long haul from more regional airports.[/quote]
I think it will Jill. The result of a 20% decrease in flights operating out of BAA-owned airports (ie Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted,
Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen & Southampton) will most likely (in the way of these things!) mean a 20% increase in landing fees. That'll drive most of the lower-cost carriers away to the other airports.

Even if BAA don't put their fees up, a reduction in flights will mean something or someone will have to give, and I guarantee BA won't be giving up slots.

In the long-run that might be better for the consumer, especially those that can't (or won't) easily travel to LHR, LGW etc.

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<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Sniff
BA has just extended it's system freeze until Monday at the the earliest. This is an indication that they expect large scale rebookings of passengers and associated aircraft movements - so expect the chaos to continue over the weekend.
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BA just extended their software freeze yet again, this time until 08:00 GMT on Wednesday 16th August. This implies that they expect disruption on their flight schedules until at least then.
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BA just extended their software freeze yet again, this time until 08:00 GMT on Thursday 17th August. Clearly the schedules are still considerably disrupted. 35 BA flights have been cancelled at LHR today & 11 at LGW. 19 cancellations are expected at LHR tomorrow, none at Gatwick. Operations are expected to be back to normal by Friday.

Incidentally that now makes over 1100 flights BA has cancelled in the past week.

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<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Sniff
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Sniff
BA has just extended it's system freeze until Monday at the the earliest. This is an indication that they expect large scale rebookings of passengers and associated aircraft movements - so expect the chaos to continue over the weekend.
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BA just extended their software freeze yet again, this time until 08:00 GMT on Wednesday 16th August. This implies that they expect disruption on their flight schedules until at least then.
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BA just extended their software freeze yet again, this time until 08:00 GMT on Thursday 17th August. Clearly the schedules are still considerably disrupted. 35 BA flights have been cancelled at LHR today & 11 at LGW. 19 cancellations are expected at LHR tomorrow, none at Gatwick. Operations are expected to be back to normal by Friday.

Incidentally that now makes over 1100 flights BA has cancelled in the past week.
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BA just extended their software freeze yet again, this time until 08:00 GMT on Monday 21st August

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BA have just lifted their software freeze, which is an indication they feel all the disruptions to their fleet and schedules are now resolved.