I think Karma did this...
My girlfriend and I were on a flight back from Germany and upon waiting for our flight noticed that the earlier flight back to London was delayed. We had a little Nelson from the simpsons 'HA HA' at them and moved onto our plane. Cue much waiting on a fecking hot stuffy plane while they transferred all the passengers off the delayed plane onto ours.

The following week my plane was delayed three hours!! I'm still not sure if this is piss poor service from BA or Karma?
(The Archduke of South London I'm in your Girlfriend eating her organs, Tue 26 Feb 2008, 16:02, 6 replies)

I would have gone for piss-poor service myself
The last time I flew - admittedly my own fault, perhaps, for choosing a budget flight - my flight from Perpignan to Southampton was delayed quite a bit. By about 5 hours, in fact.

So, sitting in this French airport lobby - with my grandmother, I hasten to add - someone eventually pipes up that Southampton airport will be closed by the time our plane takes off.

"Oh, they've sorted that out: they're going to fly you to Birmingham" said the airport official. (It was quite telling that only the airport staff were still there; the EasyJet staff had run for cover long ago...)

So, we were going to be flown from Birmingham, and bunged on a coach back to Southampton. Where, presumably, we'd have to get a taxi back from Soton to London (if the plane had taken off at the scheduled time, trains would have been plentiful). No Woo or Yay for you, EasyJet.

Fortunately, at Birmingham, we ended up queuing in Passport Control next to a family who'd booked a taxi to pick them up, but had only been able to book an 8-seater, and were conveniently going back to the same part of London. Woo yay!

Anyway, we get in this taxi and the cabby offers his sympathies about this delay, before relaying his own story: apparently earlier that year, his family had their flight back from Majorca delayed by 14 hours. The woman at the check-in desk said to him "well, we can get you on a flight that's leaving in an hour, though I don't think the other passengers will be very pleased."
"Why not?"
"Because their flight's already been delayed by 24 hours."

There we go. Not so much karma as...well, actually I don't know.

Oh, and it turns out the reason for our delay was that a seagull had collided with the landing gear as the plane came in, and the only EasyJet engineer available to check the plane over had to be flown in from Exeter. Now that's piss-poor service.

Sorry, I've just realised how long this is. Thank you for your patience.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 26 Feb 2008, 16:49, closed)

I've only flown once
And it got delayed.





Joy to the english weather ;-)
(Pointless as a chavs bathroom, Tue 26 Feb 2008, 17:49, closed)

Don't fly with Jet2.com either
they kept telling us last year we'd be "boarding momentarily" despite the fact the plane wasn't even at the right airport. Three hour delay and not so much as an apology.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Tue 26 Feb 2008, 17:51, closed)

When BAA designed our terminals
instead of building them in a circle so all the planes could go in and out at will, they made these lanes- so the planes have to wait for the others to go in and out of the hole, about 15 a lane. If any plane in the schedule misses its slot, it has to wait for a gap in all the othjer scheduled planes going in and out of the hole. And that is why we are shit at making flying happen. Terminal 5 has been made circular, like all the sensible European ones.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Tue 26 Feb 2008, 20:16, closed)

@Wee Witch
The American usage of 'momentarily' always amuses me when coming into land at an airport in the US.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please ensure your seatbelts are fastened and tray tables stowed securely, as we will be landing momentarily".

I'd prefer if we stayed on the ground at least long enough for me to disembark (or 'deplane' as they say in the US nowadays)!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 27 Feb 2008, 8:46, closed)

momentarily
that use makes me angry rather than amused.

"I'll be with you momentarily!"
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 27 Feb 2008, 10:24, closed)