Re: Edinburgh
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 1:13 pm
Very true.
Perhaps we should encourage double daily to Barra rather than a Madrid connection.
Perhaps we should encourage double daily to Barra rather than a Madrid connection.
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Barra must be a breeze.
The 2nd July was manic and on Saturday the reason QR held was due to AF on its stand having a late departure due to crewing issues. No alternative stand was available due to UA and VS having already arrived. It’s not ideal, anything but, however it’s clearly squeezing quarts into pint pots which is fine when everything keeps to schedule otherwise……VS71 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:04 am We flew out on the 2nd (You allow Edi trip reports Clive?![]()
) and it was pretty chaotic. The baggage belt failed, so it was moving one bag per time, for four or five bags, then stopped for five / ten minutes.
EDI staff came through, and stopped check-in for 50 minutes to clear a backlog and bring a load of Ryanair folk through. BA staff ignored them and kept putting folk through.
We left two hours late, partly as cleaners were 40 mins late coming to the plane. 1hr 30 after we should have left 100 bags got delivered.
Returning Saturday morning, expecting the worst, we were pretty lucky. There were though a number of bags just going round and round on our belt, and a good number dumped off to the side.
A Qatar flight landed as we were taxiing, and was still there when we were back at the Holiday Inn picking up the car!
This past week, a friends parents were heading to Washington and left two hours late due to Menzies taking that long to get bags loaded.
Looks like not enough staff to cover night shifts, so hopefully some expensive metal heading our way, or a bit of re-planning of flights. Certainly not much advanced notice.
Way off the mark. See EACC minutes below for the reason.
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