As of this morning (Saturday 27th May) I am pleased to confirm that the ‘little local IT difficulty’ experienced in the past few days by British Airways does appear to have been resolved.
However worth bearing in mind that Piccadilly Tube is closed 27, 28 and 29 May. This only occurred to us after something unfortunate happened in the road tunnels leading to T3 leading to huge traffic snarl up and our taxi driver suggested dropping us at T5 where we could connect by train for free. This did work - the Elizabeth line and Heathrow Express doing the honours today at least. Needs careful consideration though for those arriving or departing from Heathrow in next couple of days.
The problem we had at T3 was that the luggage belts had malfunctioned so while we were a tad late, nothing much happened for over half an hour until they fixed it. I say nothing - added tension and possibly raised blood pressure for us as our first thought was that our flights had been cancelled - they hadn't but BA were still cancelling some flights this morning.
Having checked, in our bags went to the ‘problem child’ luggage section wheeled there by us. I’m assuming it was because the belt at the far desk where we checked in hadn’t yet been fixed. There were no obvious signs of any knock on from the T5 industrial action and our bags did arrive here in Sardinia (although mine did give me palpitations by attempting to be the last onto the carousel!).
Flight delayed by forty minutes or so on tarmac by traditional summer ‘air traffic control issues’. Full flight and slightly surprised by number of US citizens headed to Sardinia, where we are currently flopped and de-stressing!
Ian