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From: Rod on 17 Dec 2009 15:01
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:42:00 +0000, Rod <news(a)possil.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:52:48 GMT, wensleydale(a)pacersplace.org.uk (Neil
>Williams) wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:40:52 +0000, Andy Davidson
>><"$andy$"@nosignal.org> wrote:
>>
>>>They claim you can arrive and check in 20 minutes before a scheduled
>>>departure (although being paranoid, I have never left it that close !)
>>
>>It's entirely believable. What I'd be more concerned about is the
>>chance of the inbound flight being delayed rather than issues getting
>>around the airport.
>
>Well I've taken the plunge and booked the flights. I'm not too
>bothered on the way out as there is a later flight if I get delayed on
>the 1st leg from Glasgow - but as the trip is for a shortish ski trip,
>my "worst case" is I get the flight and my luggage spends the rest of
>the time catching up with me! But the price and the travel times are
>good.
>
>The flights are in mid-December, so I'll drop a reply afterwards on
>how I (& my checked in luggage) get on...

Well Neil was right - inbound flight from Glasgow was ~ 20 minutes
late and then it took about 10 minutes to disembark (ground crew had
gone AWOL).

So I missed the onward flight to Zurich, but at least they managed to
retrieve my checked through luggage and I then managed (after 2
attempts by the ticket desk before they got it right) to get onto the
next flight 3 hours later...

To be honest it would have been tight at 35 minutes anyway IMO - LCY
is not very "transfer friendly" - had a fair walk from the landing
aircraft and then you're dumped out into the terminal and have to go
back in through the normal security for the onward flight. Compounded
with this is the apparently poor support of transferring - e.g. the
screw ups on rebooking me on the next flight - OK - that may have been
bad luck, but on the way home, where with a more generous 45 minutes
things worked OK-ish until, as I passed the baggage carousel I
happened to spot my "checked through to Glasgow" bag merrily going
round on it. I suppose I should be happy that the combination of a
relatively efficient luggage offload and "UK borders" (as they like to
call themselves) providing a corresponding delaying bottleneck came
together to let me spot and correct the mistake - still it made me
feel that while LCY might be good for direct flights, as a transfer
hub its got a bit of work to do...

Still, the snow was good and in the end it all sort of worked out OK!

Rod

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