Airline ticket refunds?

Assuming that there was a plot to blow up several planes to America
in the immediate future (as of Thursday), there must be several tickets
which can't now be used. Do you think the terrorists can get refunds?

And if the police knew who the suspects were, they presumably knew which
flights they had booked, so didn't really need to screw the country on Thursday.

 

Depends on the tickets they bought really.

Maybe they didn't know *all* of the people?

 

AFAIK they hadn't *actually* booked flights yet....

The police-state action was purely "In case there is a plan B which may be
put into action now we have the original plotters" i.e. its all a load of
bollocks dreamed up to keep the British public used to living in a permanent
state of fear.

Of course if they *hadn't* done anything and it *had* gone tits up then the
govt/security services would've been fucked anyway, so it's a no-win
situation for them.

But they do appear to have massively overreacted which, IMO, can only be to
create a climate of fear so there aren't too many protests once the ID card
bill gets rushed through Parliament and even more repressive legislation is
announced in the interests of 'public safety'...

Dave

 

Considering the type of disruption that was totally out of the control
of the Airlines, I'd say anyone and everyone that wants a refund/change
for Thursday will get one. Nick?

This is one reason. The other one is to install the fear of God into
the population to remind us that we're fighting a war on terror.
Cynically, I'd go for the latter.

 

Disagree, actually.

 

Help! My thread's been hijacked by a terrorist troll.
At least he's made an honest statement about himself.

 

Bolloxs.
It was a plot by the Airline companies to charge for excess baggage/cut down
weight.

 

Seriously, why?

 

Look he's already been dragged down the cop shop to explain why it was
necessary for him to go to such lengths to get this weekend's trip to
Ecuador rearranged. No more questions - he'll go all traumatised on us.

 

I don't think that the response is excessive, given the (announced)
perceived risk.

It's that simple.

However, if this results in another load of people released without
charge my reaction might change. I don't expect them to hold all the
people they've arrested, mind.

As for "Who's responsible?", should it turn out to be a genuine
high-threat-risk plot, I'll apply Occam's Razor and say "Muslim
extremists".

 

So you don't believe that the reaction was as I said in an earlier post
"to remind us that we're at war with terror"

Of course. That's generally not the case.

That may also be the case, but I believe the reaction was over the top.
And unless the authorities explain why [1], I'll always think this due
to my cynical beliefs above.

[1] Although it's highly unlikely that they will for either my
reasoning or the fact that there was a genuine security concern which
they cannot explain to Joe Public.

 

They're taking their unwanted tickets to The Bank of Steve H and are
getting them exchanged for Mills & Boon trash novels and bottles of
water.

 

Each airline is dealing with it differently. IIRC BA are offering a
refund to peeps whose Short Haul flights are delayed for more than 2
hours and Long Haul for more than 4 hours.

While this means throwing money down the toilet it also means that
they can stick more stand-by pax in that flight seat and clear any
backlog from earlier on in the day.

 

I assume this is because people with an ID card are unable to create
explosive devices.

 

I think you'll find that it was all down to bottled water companies
and Mills and Boon so they can re-sell more books.

 

Nick - be a luv, stop raking up arguments from other threads. The pair
of you are never going to agree and you've both bashed heads so agree to
disagree. Ta.

 

I think, for a change, you might be in the minority.

--
Greybeard

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Or if they do blow themselves up, they can tell who they were with much
more ease.

 

I understand that all BAA airports are soon to stop permitting flights
forever as they've found a huge market in selling mineral water. Why
do flights when you can fill one of the old terminals with powdered
mineral water? Genius!

 

TOG may be in the minority but he's not alone in his view, what he
said earlier and it doesn't hurt to remind the public of the times in
which we live...

On a more serious note, anyone want to by my 2 week timeshare in
Beriut? Its mid to late August... southern part of the city... Nice
view of Mt Lebanon... S'going cheap...