Heathrow chaos
So here I’m stuck in London. I was coming back from New York on my way to Amsterdam, I just had to connect at Heathrow. But events decided it could not be possible. Nearly all short-haul flights from Heathrow were canceled due to terrorist threats, so I could not connect to Amsterdam. Sylvain who had to connect to Gatwick made it back to Toulouse with only a 2h30 delay.
Another event to add to my long list of personal war-zone experience, though this one being quite minor.
British Airways distributed papers to all passengers on Terminal 4 asking them to:
- Go to ba.com and rearrange bookings (that was quickly disabled probably due to traffic)
- Contact the reservation team at 0800 XXX XXX to rebook (but was saturated)
I took the tube to get to the London office and had the lovely assistants in both London and Leiden taking care of me to get me an hotel in London, re-schedule the other one in Leiden and rebook me in another BA flight, which hopefully is on saturday mid-day.
Another option would have been to take the Eurostar to Brussels and then Amsterdam..or the ferry. That will be for next time, plus it is probably overbooked now.
That’s too bad since I learned at the same time that the appartment I’m scheduled to move to in Leiden was ready, I just had to go to the agency and sign it. I could have used the week end to do some quick Ikea visit to furnish it.
Instead that will be delayed to next week.
