Unbelievable.

Our flight on Emirates from Dar es Salaam to Dubai two weeks ago was delayed in taking off by over an hour.

Once we had boarded the plane, the pilot came on the intercom to apologize, saying the flight crew had been delayed in getting to the airport by one of the horrific traffic jams that plague Dar.

I was reminded of what an old traffic engineer once told me, “There’s no such thing as a traffic jam; there are just a lot of people who don’t leave early enough.“

The one and only time we’ve flown BA was last year, thru Heathrow. There was some sort of computer glitch on the way home, our gate had only one computer working to board hundreds of people. Took forever and then they couldn’t provide the pilot with weights and other info he needed to do his job. We sat on the runway for about an hour and a half and the pilot announced that the cockpit crew had manually done the calculations and we were leaving, which we did. Friends booked on a flight 2 hours after ours were forced to spend another night in London and rebook two flights in the US to get home…they swore never again to fly thru Heathrow.

Because Canada will not allow Emirates to fly to Vancouver - Air Canada is part of the Star Alliance, and they do not like competition from better airlines.

We had to fly Emirates to London, then BA to Vancouver.

They were doing some construction at the airport, looked more like a war zone!

BA's First Class Lounge was absolutely awful.

There was plenty of drinks, but the food was like a buffet at a 2 star hotel.

And so were the chairs in the lounge.

Practically all of tem looked like a 100 years old, middle part is so sunk in one could imagine they were thrown out by someone.

At the gate, it was total shamble.

There were 8, I counted them, BA employees behind the counter, yipyapping and doing nothing useful.

We had First Class tickets, and there was no sign to tell us where to go.

We were 13 passengers all together, so I went to ask.

I said "excuse me please, where is the priority boarding line?"

And one man turned to me and said "you have to wait your turn mate!"

I said "why the hell to I have to wait my turn if I pay for a First Class ticket?"

Suddenly his attitude change, "Oh! I am sorry sir. This way please!"

I called our party and we boarded.

It was a 747, and night flight.

Very comfortable, and the crew ere very pleasant and helpful.

The menu was an A5 single piece of paper!

What a contrast to what Emirates offers.

On the way back, at their lounge at Vancouver airport.

Which was nice, I asked the manager when did they change heir name to BA!

He had no clue.

I said "it used to be called BOAC!"

He said "Oh!"

I said " it means Better On A camel!"

He was not very impressed!

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Originally posted by Saeed:
I said " it means Better On A camel!"
:lap:

They probably changed the name from "BOAC" to avoid that insult!

But they did not escape opprobrium, since, as you sometimes note, "BA" has come to be known as "Bloody Awful".

PIA

Pakistan International Airlines.

Please Inform Allah

LUFTHANSA?

Anyone can guess??