Party tonight

So, my seven days at work are over and it's time for a well-deserved three days off. Tonight my sister and I are hosting our annual summer party, and I've spent pretty much all day sorting stuff out for it. I have a sore throat which is a shame, and I'm guessing it will probably be worse tomorrow, but you only live once eh?

Yesterday there was some absolutely atrocious weather, which resulted in 14 flights being cancelled from T5. I was in charge of making my way through an enormous queue at 8.45pm and telling passsengers that the ticket desk would be closing at 9 and that they could pick up their hotel vouchers from another bit of the departures level. It wasn't a pleasant task, though it amazes me how people can have such distorted and ignorant views.

Now I'm certainly no overly-motivated employee nor someone who particularly loves BA, but there were some things that people said which really annoyed me. Here are a few:

- 'This happens every time I fly with BA'...... What does? There's a thunderstorm and your flight gets cancelled? Bullshit.

- 'Screw this, I'm getting a flight with another carrier'.... Excuse me? The flights are cancelled due to the weather. This is nothing to do with BA - every other airline will have cancelled their flights. If you want to book with another carrier, fine, but there won't be any planes taking off from Heathrow you complete and utter dumbass.

- 'BA are going to go bankrupt soon'.... Two things. Firstly, why say this to me? Do you think this is going to affect me? That it's going to make me fear for my job or something? As if!Secondly, what a load of absolute bollocks. If rain was something that could bankrupt airlines, then commercial aviation would never have got off the ground! And also, BA is one of the only airlines that will never go bust, it is simply too big. If it ever gets anywhere near that stage, then a hell of a lot of other airlines will have gone down the pan beforehand. In which case, there would be more custom for BA, so it won't go bust.... there are just too many big stakeholders in the organisation looking after it. And look at the last year. Probably BA's worst year ever in terms of its reputation. 22,000 bags lost at the opening of T5 and confirmed as the biggest bag-loser in Europe. Yet it has recently announced record profits of 800 million pounds. Going bankrupt? Not yet you idiot.

- 'When is it going to stop raining?'... Are you kidding me?

- 'Oi, yeah over here, am I booked on the next flight?'... Oh yes it's you sir, the man I've never seen before in my life. Let me just check the database I have in my head of every single flight there is. Now, I don't know your name, I don't know where you're travelling to, but yeah you have a window seat in business class you STUPID BASTARD

Well you can probably see that yesterday was a bit stressful, and aplogies for the expletives! But the people who have this ignorance and hold these ridiculous beliefs are exactly the types that will get sucked in by all the over-reactions and BS in the media regarding the air industry.

Thanks for reading

-J