ttj - Tom Jones

BA have just started a Heathrow-Guernsey route. They said it was their first flight on that route since 1980. Checkin at Terminal 5 was bad. They couldn't find it from my passport.  I had to give my booking reference three times.  Then show the screen.  They were grumpy.  Security was bad, just very slow. The flight was good.  All the crew except one were from Guernsey.  They served Guernsey butter.  The salad was fresh.  They served Champagne.  The napkin was made of cloth, not paper. Lots of people were parked just north of the airport fence, to watch.  Some photographers and a Deputy were on the tarmac.  Customs and Immigration were present, but for a change did not harass me based on an incorrect hunch that I was smuggling drugs.  A choir in the arrivals area sang Flower Duet, the BA song.

I created a new BA account.  This was because the old BA account required either an authenticator code, which I never set up, or a rescue code, which I never set up, to log in.  The account would still sometimes work, but only when they didn't want extra authentication. I made a new American Express card with the new BA account.  I went to log in to the new BA account for the first time.  I got challenged with a captcha.  I had to say what items performed the same function as a chair: sofas, vs other things.  I had to do at least two of these.  Then, I got the fruit of my labours: An error page from under accounts.britishairways.com saying "Bad Request".  This is what we have.  This is the pinnacle of human achievement.

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: