I am quite calm normally. When the Indian contingent of the passengers of the sick BA flight tried to incite everyone to march on immigration en masse one asked me why I could possibly be so calm. I just told her this was nothing compared to what we had already gone through!(By the way, we DID nearly get a riot but they qwelled it and a little while later we were playing bingo with the passports- but I haven't time for that story just now )

Hi Fiona
Really looking forward to your full report. Was it your second visit to Goa?

Has your luggage turned up yet?

Polly

Unbelievable!

Most air travel is fairly dispiriting these days but to really screw up on global scale, there's nobody to touch British Airways. They have elevated incompetence into an art form!

Your clothes could well be out of fashion by the time you get them back. Don't let the b s grind you down!

OMG what a carry on I think I may have just seen your case riding a Harley Davidson along the M62 to Liverpool
Hope it gets sorted out soon for you Fiona

thanks everyone- they have no idea where our case is at the moment. they are supposedly working on it. any other sightings?

You should apply for a BA Executive club card in the name of 'Mr A Suitcase', as by the time you get it back it will have clocked up so many air miles you'll be entitled to a gold one
But having said that, will you want to fly BA again??

I have talktalk as my internet homepage and one of their top news stories today is the announcement that BA have shelved plans to move their long haul flights from T4 to T5 until mid June because of problems with lost baggage ! Article says that fiasco has made the UK a laughing stock.

I have had a lot of good flights with ba and the one bad time I had when we were stuck in frankfurt after a divert for a day and a half we got 100 000 airmiles. I'll see what we get at the end of all this. If its nothing- then I will only use up my airmiles with them. My very short trip report outwith the airports will be done over the weekend. but with only 5 days there, there really isn't much to tell.

Im sure you have plenty to tell us

We should have sponsered the suitcase
Pat

an hour ago- WE GOT OUR LUGGAGE BACK!!!!!
and I love the label they have on it- one word- RUSH.

Congratulations

HURRAY - not before time

god knows what its been up to

did BA slip a bottle of champagne in it as a welcome home pressey?????
andy

no- they've just awarded our case a gold card

I really don't have much of a report this time round. We really didn't have long enough. I am at the tail end of an illness which makes me tire very easily so relaxation was what I really wanted. (That's a laugh isn't it). With 7 days we were planning to take a trip into Panjim and to Old Goa and possibly a boat trip. We always hoped our luggage would arrive in Goa and, as we had to go to go back to the airport to collect it, we were going to make a day of it and do a couple of visits along the way, But we only had 5 days and our luggage did not follow us.
By the time I arrived in Goa I was totally stressed. We had had the delay, the run through the terminals, a rubbish inflight meal and ages at Mumbai filling up paperwork stressing that we would miss the Jet airways flight. I then finished it all off by stepping off the transfer bus and falling up the step into the terminal. Tony couldn't believe it! Our internal flight was excellent. How they can serve a 3 course meal in an hour's flight is beyond me.
Our taxi driver, sent by Stanley at Kingstork, also tried to wind us up with a tour of Goa before we got to the hotel. He got a bit of a bollocking from us and I have a feeling that he told the others in the taxi stand at the bottom of the road as we had absolutely no further problems with any taxi. We dumped our things( that took 5 seconds) and decided to head off up to the main road to buy the essentials. Rajeesh was a bit bemused with our lack of luggage. Anyone outside of the UK can listen to the words Terminal 5 without being struck by terror.
We bought what we needed for toiletries and realised that suntan lotion actually cost more than in the UK. Our £50 was not going to go far. There were a couple of small bars in that stretch of shops so we decided to sit out at the pavement tables and have a kingfisher and bacardi and coke. Somewhere during that drink, I looked around and felt stress leave. I got up, went into the first shop, and bought 3 blouses and a skirt for £12. I went back and had a second drink! We were going to enjoy our holiday.

Was that the shop on the corner? Quite a handy shop and I love how they do same day alterations for short people like me