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BA, page never loads, just shows blurry placeholder: Easyjet, gives obscure error message on submission of flight search form, back to square one:

Yet again, unable to buy airline tickets due to bad web sites. Logged in at ba.com. Their pay button makes three dots whiz back and forth for a long time, then the Pay Now button comes back. No indication of success or failure. Then clicking on the Pay Now button does nothing.  Reload.  Go through process again.  Same thing happens. Tried logging in from another browser.  Got "Verify Your Identity".  It wants either OTP from authenticator app, which I have not set up with ba.com, or recovery code that they supposedly gave me at some point, but didn't.  So I just can't log in. Tried at austrian.com instead.  The initial search for flights results in an error:

 The clock on my wall seems to have gone forward an hour. The one in this Kia car, new, is now an hour behind. It has satnav, adaptive cruise control, and what-have-you, but setting the clock is manual? You go in settings, search for time, and tick daylight savings. Don’t know if you have to untick it again in autumn.

Seat 1f on british airways. Medium sized brown splodge in middle of seat. Came off with some rubbing from cleaning cloth. Similar white splodge down side, ditto. Smaller white splodges didn’t come off. Will assume they’re like dry paint and ignore. Behind seat cushion is more grime and trash. Steward said they have “cleaners”. As in, he did scare quotes with his fingers as he said “cleaners”. And, looking into the cockpit, they don’t even make the pilots shave any more. British Airways in 2026. It still says “to fly to serve” on the side of the plane lol. Can’t add the screenshot that’s on my phone right now because “can’t access your Google account”. Even though logged in to Google account from multiple apps on phone, including this browser. And it gives me no way to “access Google account”, just says can’t.

 Bought ticker on BA web site.  Every time I try to check in online, I get this page: " We are experiencing high demand on ba.com at the moment".  The text doesn't indicate whether it's just going to take a long time to load, or whether it's just not going to work.  But from the fact it's a static page, and no re-loading is going on, this is a dead end.  That's it.  A major airline in 2026.  This is what happens when you try to check in:

You can use cash, as long as we can keep the change, seems to be the new push for the cashless society. Case in point: Oxford Tube, cost 25.50, gave 30 GBP, "we don't have change, have this scrip instead, see at end of coach ride". At end of coach ride, no they didn't have change. On return journey later that day: no change, "check at end".  At end: no change. So, due to Stagecoach policy, they got to keep the 4.50 GBP, and I ended up with a useless ticket saying "4.50" on it. What would happen if a customer tried paying for a coach ride with their own scrip?