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jacquiOatley NSW
Paid for seats not available
Traveled from Sydney to Bangkok, Dubai and Vienna and onto Amsterdam with other airlines no problem. In Amsterdam for travel onto UK BA informed us flight was overbooked and no seats available. Wait listed for another flight which does not connect without ongoing arrangements is unfair and wrong. Our travel for 2017 will be changed to ensure we will never use British Airways again.
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Carolyn STel Aviv
Terrible Customer Relations
On September 3rd 2014 I flew with BA from Tel Aviv to Heathrow. The flight was listed as leaving on time up until the time of boarding, when we were told there would be a delay. We boarded about 40 minutes late and only after we were all seated were we told by the captain that there had been some problem with air conditioning on the incoming flight and they would not be able to leave without fixing it. About an hour later he informed us that the good news was that it had been fixed, but unfortunately in the course of doing the repairs someone h...Read more
ad "broken a bracket", which would now have to be mended. 90 minutes later the same captain said he was happy to inform us that the bracket had been fixed but now we would have to wait for an engineer in London to "sign off" on the work and that would take another 90 minutes. In the end we sat on the ground in the plane for FIVE HOURS during which time we were given 2 cold drinks. We arrived in Heathrow at around midnight instead of 8pm. I was spending the night with friends an hour from the airport and had to be back at Heathrow for the continuation of my flight to New York. I told them not to wait to collect me and took a taxi which cost me 30 GBP. I was so upset by then that I forgot to get a receipt from the driver. I wrote a letter of complaint to BA and only got a reply 6 weeks later. I had asked for a refund of the taxi fare (without the receipt) and some financial compensation for the inconvenience caused me. The letter informed me that "your flight was delayed due to operational circumstances beyond our control which prevented the aircraft operating as scheduled. Under EU legislation, British Airways is not liable for a compensation payment in this situation". I wrote to them again telling them what I thought about their Customer Relations and eventually got a second reply saying that their refusal to pay compensation still stood. I am totally disgusted by BA and hope never to have to fly with them again.Similar opinion? Write a review on ieatwords.com.au!
Nina2AU
- 3 reviews
- 3 likes
Cancelled flight and reluctant to refund
British Airways flight BA 12 on 8 September from Singapore to London was cancelled and not rescheduled until the next day. We were facing missing a connecting flight, accommodation and potentially the start of our cruise. We were fortunate to get a replacement economy flight with Singapore Airlines, no thanks to British Airways. Now three months on, we are still being led up the garden path trying to obtain a refund for our missed World Traveller Plus tickets and seat allocation fees.. Their service has been consistently non existent at every communication. I think they believe that if they delay long enough we will forget about it. This won't happen though.
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Ashok SarafMumbai, Maharashtra, India
British Airways treats Gold Card Members badly!
British Airways treats Gold Card Members badly! My recent experience with BA has been bad. Delayed Flight, Onward Flight not connected. Nobody to attend. Stranded at London Airport for the night without a Hotel & Bags.
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Unhappy customerSydney, Australia
Lost priority baggage
Customer support are not supportive. We arrived at Zurich for a 2 day skiing holiday at 9pm tuesday evening only to find that our ski equipment did not arrive. We were told it would be on the next scheduled flight and would arrive at 10am wednesday the next day and they would call when Arrived. 24 hours later we have not received any calls. We have called 3 times to make enquiries as to our essential luggage location to be hung up on 3 times by a call center in Madrid. This has been the worst customer experience ever as our holiday has been rui...Read more
ned because we do not have our ski equipment. We paid a premium to travel with BA and expect good service and not for priority bulky baggage to be lost. Very disappointed and would recommend any other carrier. Cabin crew were great. Customer support was rude and unhelpful.Similar opinion? Write a review on ieatwords.com.au!
centurion7
- 5 reviews
BA Flights overbooked
As part of our holiday we paid for 2 seats 6 months in advance on British Airways from Heathrow to Hong Kong. When we arrived at the airport BA advised the flight was overbooked and could not give us a boarding pass or check our baggage in. We had to wait 40 mins before the flight until they advised we could not get on that flight and they booked us in on another flight 4 hours later. BA do this with all flights. BA staff at Heathrow are not helpful, abrupt and have no customer skills. BA didnt care they were affecting our holiday. I have used lots of airlines all over the world but BA are the worst by far. I will never use them again.
nothing
very poor customer relations and dont really care about customers.
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JamesgxSydney
- 4 reviews
Fall from grace
Overpriced. Poor service. Beaten hands down by most of the Asian carriers. I now flyemirates who are cheaper, have better cabins, newer planes and far better service. Plus they also pick me up and drop me off with a personal chauffeur taxi at no extra cost.sorry ba but you must have seen this coming.
It's British identity. Nothing else
Expensive and the staff are not as welcoming as on Asian carriers. It's an English thing!
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Jade007Sydney
- 12 reviews
Uneventful Trip
We flew from Sydney to Bangkok and the worst thing about Bristish Airway is the attitude of the air staff, cold and impersonal, lacking service and not friendly at all. The food were uninteresting too, so were the flight entertainment, all added up to be a rather bland experience. I would prefer not to travel with them again,
Unfriendly cabin crew
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DivrajDelhi
Never go by their words ... "we assure you"
British airways ...
Lack of hospitality.... they dont understand that sometime asking for water means someone literally needs it at that very moment...
Asked for water ... they kept saying the person will just be coming in a minute to serve drinks so he will do the same ... and he came after 15 mins ...
Lack of responsibility.
They dont know the meaning of fragile ... I think they confused it will 'handle without care'
Gave them baggage, asked to to put fragile tag on baggage, in front of me they banged the baggage on the belt ... wow ... should we consider them as perfectionists ? well I think so yes ... at breaking things :)
Being cheap :)
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VerySplendid
- 34 reviews
- 6 likes
Good
The flight attendants were professional and friendly; accommodating, efficient and willing to engage in conversation. After asking twice in a row for chocolate, the flight attendant eventually pointed me in the direction of where the snacks were stored so I could help myself, which was really nice!
The food was above average for airline food. I had a long-haul light London - New York and as there were empty seats in the middle of the aircraft, the flight attendant let me leave my seat and stretch out to sleep across a whole row.
Nothing whatsoever. My experience was overall quite good.
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A LimMelbourne
No sense of responsibility and an airline I can live without.
My partner got on a flight from Singapore to Melbourne with a Sydney Domestic transit. Flight to Sydney was uneventful with fair service provided by the cabin crew.
A day before departure back to Singapore on a Saturday, we received a SMS from BA regarding a flight delay. This required my partner to be at the airport at 4am on Monday morning instead of the 3.45pm flight on Sunday. There was no 24 hour hotline we could call to confirm and to have our queries answered to. This meant my partner had to take the last flight out from Melbourne to...Read more
Sydney at 9pm and wait until 4am. Qantas, the code share airline had confirmed with us that accomodation would be organised by BA on her arrival in Sydney. Upon reaching Sydney airport, ALL counters were closed and there was no way to get in touch with BA because for some apparent reason, BA thinks that passengers don't travel during the weekends and therefore, there's no reason to have an Customer Service Advisor on standby for queries. My partner was left in the airport passenger holding section for 7 hours overnight, with no food and no water. I am absolutely furious and is in the process of speaking to BA about this. In short, this would be the first and last time I would want to have anything to do with BA after their irresponsible and care-less attitude towards its customers. Absolutely nothing. Bad Service, Irresponsible Behaviour, Small Leg RoomSimilar opinion? Write a review on ieatwords.com.au!
fmc06AU
- 2 reviews
- 2 likes
Never travelling with them again, whatever the discount!
When my brother told me he had bought Qantas tickets I was disappointed but when I saw British Airway's plane on boarding (as Qantas and British airways have some kind of joint service) I was afraid my next 9 hours on the flight will be horrible, and that's exactly how it was. Besides the disgusting food and small, uncomfortable seats, it was the attitude of the staff that put me off the most. It's so obvious how racist they are, maybe British Airways shouldn't sell tickets to a non-white person! They were downright rude. I promised myself that...Read more
no matter how great the discount was I would never travel via British Airways or Qantas again. Unfortunately, my mother's return ticket was with them. Despite requesting special assistance, they were uncooperative. My mother can't speak or read English, was travelling alone for the first time and has ill-health so is unable to carry any kind of load (which is why we requested special assistance). The staff on board refused to help her and because she lifted the bag she was in pain for the 14 hours of her flight. I was furious when she told me. I have seen the staff helping out others so why did they say no to my mum?!?!! Never travelling with them again. Racist and rude staff, pathetic service, bad food, uncomfortable seatsSimilar opinion? Write a review on ieatwords.com.au!
Floyd41AU
rude staff
my wife and I travel to europe every two years, last time we travelled
British Airways to Bangkok and changed airlines there and flew on to helsinki with a different airline
The British Airlines staff on the flight did as little as they could, we were hot and thirsty and all they did was bring me the smallest cup of water you could imagine.they wouldnt turn the aircon down or help in any other way I will never recommend this airline to anyone.I have also heard similar reports from other people who have traveled with this airline . so my recommendation is dont fly with them .
Bad Service, Rude staff
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PeterJLAU
- 5 reviews
- 3 likes
great service and on-time
BA10 First Class staff are excellent. I regularly fly British Airways first class out of Sydney and always find the service outstanding. The only minor thing that needs improvement is better TV entertainment choices are limited.
first class staff are great
in flight entertainment poor
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EuronymousAU
- 53 reviews
- 31 likes
The flight was fine
I have flown internationally with BA in Europe. The initial flight was cancelled, but as they had not advertised this at all I went to the airport anyway. They were really nice about it and put me up in the airport hotel for the night, including dinner and taxi transfers to the door. So although the flight was cancelled I cant really complain.
Once there the next day for the flight it was fine... a flight is a flight! The food was ok, not amazing but fine. Flying through Heathrow is a bit of an adventure but that happens with lots of airlines
They made good with accomodation when they cancelled my flight
They cancelled my flight (still inconvenient after all!)
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EluniaAU
- 2 reviews
Got us to our desination without hassle
Since I am not a frequent traveller I don’t have much to compare my experience to but British Airways was running three hours late on both of the flights I took (one to Europe and one back). The food was very unappetising and I could not eat it therefore I arrived hungry at both of my destinations. The in flight entertainment wasn’t too bad apart from the fact that my console decided to freeze and would not reboot with about an hour left in flight, but the programs and movies were recent and I hadn’t seen them so that was good.
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LucyLuce
- 3 reviews
Terrible
I am really disappointed with BA’s recent service. You can tell they are cost cutting as the service has gone rapidly down hill. The food is poor, and now no milk except condensed milk in those annoying little cartons. As for their call centre, In spent two hours trying to get through to them recently and when I did they were so unhelpful.
Now that they are on strike all of the time it is too risky to book with them.
A good safety record is perhaps their only plus point at the moment.
Service, food, age of planes and always striking.
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Terrible
We will never fly with this airline again. Just because you prebook a seat, don't think you will get it. Extremely slow with refunds
We didn't crash
The service, both check in and flight attendants. They lied about our take off time, we were delayed by over 30 hours.
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globug
- 40 reviews
- 11 likes
Terrible
I don't often talk too badly about a product and I would usually find a Pro especially if I had a lot of Cons but BA is just an absolute joke.
The service is really bad. Extremely bad.
They would not let me on a connecting flight from SYD to Thailand because there was a mishap with my ticket (due to a stupid Flight Centre booking agent) and left me standing in Sydney where I had to buy my own ticket to Thailand so I would not be left sleeping at the airport. They offered no help and their 'call centre' was useless as well.
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gizetteSydney
- 99 reviews
- 10 likes
Good
i didn't mind flying with them if i was in the area i would happily fly with them agian no problems.
cheap flights, participate in the star alliance awards program,
old plans, they don not have tv's in them for you to watch i know alot of airplanes in europe do not as they are not long flights however even one big one would be nice.
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Questions & Answers
springtimeasked
Has anyone flown with BA Sydney-Singapore lately? Have they picked up their game a bit?
Deirdreasked
Did anyone have a good experience? I'm due to fly to Sydney tomorrow and just checked reviews to get a picture, so disappointed with what I'm reading.
4 answers
I don't recall if I mentioned this in my main post, but they're pretty determined that you shouldn't write them a letter of complaint. Just try finding their email address or their Sydney office address! The only option was to write to their UK address - which meant a visit to the post office to find out how much and to buy stamps. Something they obviously don't want you to do. Which is a bad sign in any business, let alone one where each customer is spending thousands of dollars.
Hi, i travelled business class and will never fly with them again, im not sure if you're traveling business or economy. The best flight was the Qantas A330 300 flight from Melbourne to Singapore from there on and on the way back was Ba.
I'm travelling economy class!
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