Not sure if other airlines besides BA are caught up in this, but I wouldn’t be surprised. Think it’s mostly BA.
Parking stands were all full when my plane arrived; we sat on runway for 45+ minutes… an hour? Myself and other passengers with connecting flights were allowed to disembark first and were bussed to flight connections. By the time we disembarked, there was no way for many of us to make our flights in time. Others who still had a chance over the course of the next checks notes four hours, uh, lost them.
When we all rushed upstairs to flight connections, we were greeted by a crowd of other missed connection passengers at Custer services. Although several of our flights had been delayed to wait for us / our luggage, the system hadn’t yet registered those delays… so we weren’t allowed through when we scanned our boarding passes. Had staff let us through, we would have probably made our flights. In their defense, they were at mercy of upper management who as far as we could tell were (judging by security guy’s exasperated shake of head) a shambles.
Stood there for 2 hours…eventually our delayed flights took off, probably after an additional delay to presumably unload our checked through luggage. Still not sure if they actually did unload it or not.
Some of us went to departures after a staff member said there were more desks there.
Been standing here for 1.5+ hours now. Might have the amount of hours per line a little off, but in total this has been going on for four hours for those of us who were on my flight.
Line has very slowly progressed. I’m almost at the front. One staff member has been talking about hotel vouchers, but reflected when I asked about Covid tests (so I still don’t know if they will comp us for any new tests we have to take, let alone the new flights we will have to book).
In sum, a whole horde of passengers with missed connections due to airport / company ball dropping have been standing around for 2–4 hours (give or take) while those responsible and those who have to act as middleman are figuring out what to do and probably how much money they will have to shell out. And how much they can get out of shelling out.
Money they wouldn’t have to shell out had they let us through, in theory. We might have made it.
I’m wondering if /u/RichardJohnGibson’s parents are in the same line as me. Sounds like they have been caught up in the same imbroglio.
Edit: staff really struggling with all this. Was told at flight connect
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I have been playing a ton of Cinco Paus recently and decided to go back to Imbroglio which I played a fair bit when it first came out. However I am really struggling to understand the charge mechanic?
For example I don’t really understand Golem Gauntlet “only devours charge” or “Esoteric Prism” which says “when this hits and a enemy they lose extra ❤️ for each adjacent charge”.
Don’t suppose somebody could explain please?
Just a quick, and possible dumb question. Why is it that at the funeral when Charles is giving his Monologue to Camilla, that the whole family stared at him as he was leaving? Was it in his head? Was it a metaphor to the atmosphere around his relationship with Camilla? It’s a masterful scene, I’m just curious why they stared so intently at him and gave him that stern and united death glare? It couldn’t be for “drama’s sake” because the show is usually more layered than that, at least to me.
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So I've recently started experimenting with the automated arm, and upon figuring out how to make a self charging system (so long as I supply it with fresh organics) I realized I had a very severe problem on my hands. First, I have the issue of creating a system that can generate power on its own without me catering to its every single need so that I can go on operations off of sylva and put time into more ambitious projects. I had the system set up so that the only thing I needed to do was just fill up my soil centrifuge and turn all of the arms on, and turn on the smelter and it would cycle the organics into the smelter, and another arm would take the carbon the smelter makes and cycle it to two medium generators. Those generators would then turn the carbon into power, which would be put into a platform with 8 small batteries on it, and just in case the carbon would run out I had another platform with 8 small wind turbines also hooked up to the batteries. I haven't been to calidor yet, so I don't have solar panels. Until I go there, I want to figure out how to make a power grid that can just keep going while I set up my bases on desolo and novus. Once I get those stable, I planned on heading to calidor for malachite. I also learned that automated arms drain a lot of power when you have 6 of them hooked up to the same power grid. And my other issue is I don't know how to hook it up so that all I need to do is hit two different buttons and the entire system powers on, if such a thing even exists. Can one of you astroneer geniuses help me out with my preposterous predicament? I would share a screenshot of the system but unfortunately at the time I don't have any uploaded to my drive.
