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Yeah, the entire travel story of the summer is that every airport is kind of screwed, it's not remotely limited to Heathrow. According to this source, Heathrow

by splonk 4y ago

Yeah, the entire travel story of the summer is that every airport is kind of screwed, it's not remotely limited to Heathrow. According to this source, Heathrow actually outperformed every other London airport except Stansted in terms of percentage of flights successfully departing in June. https://thepointsguy.co.uk/news/worse-uk-airports-cancellations-june-2022/ https://thepointsguy.co.uk/news/worse-uk-airports-cancellati... And of course Manchester had some well publicized issues, and outside of the UK AMS and CDG had massive problems as well. I mean, KLM flat out stopped flying ticketed passengers into AMS for a day to try to recover. "At the end of Saturday afternoon, 4 June, KLM was regrettably compelled to decide that passengers at European destinations would no longer be allowed to board flights to Amsterdam." https://simpleflying.com/klm-suspends-all-flights-from-europe-to-amsterdam-schiphol/ https://simpleflying.com/klm-suspends-all-flights-from-europ...

CaptainZapp 4y ago
A family member who needs to fly to Lima via Amsterdam just got an email that KLM doesn't allow luggage for passengers with a connection from another European airport. That's after paying nearly 200 Euro for a second piece of luggage. Oh, they apologize sincerely for the inconvenience caused, but don't bother to provide any options for long haul travellers. I can't put this any nicer, but: Fuck you! KLM, I, for one, will make sure to never use you again. Especially not long haul, via Amsterdam.
- amalter 4y ago
  They are doing you a favor. That bag would likely not have made it to its destination due to ground handling troubles outside their control. Just had family flying TLV through Munich. 2 out 4 pieces of luggage lost (Lufthansa/UA codeshare). If you are going to travel with a checked bag, 100% recommend airtag'ing them.

by splonk 4y ago

CaptainZapp 4y ago

A family member who needs to fly to Lima via Amsterdam just got an email that KLM doesn't allow luggage for passengers with a connection from another European airport. That's after paying nearly 200 Euro for a second piece of luggage. Oh, they apologize sincerely for the inconvenience caused, but don't bother to provide any options for long haul travellers. I can't put this any nicer, but: Fuck you! KLM, I, for one, will make sure to never use you again. Especially not long haul, via Amsterdam.

amalter 4y ago
They are doing you a favor. That bag would likely not have made it to its destination due to ground handling troubles outside their control. Just had family flying TLV through Munich. 2 out 4 pieces of luggage lost (Lufthansa/UA codeshare). If you are going to travel with a checked bag, 100% recommend airtag'ing them.