Last weekend British Airways suffered a massive outage due to an overwhelming IT failure (blamed on outsourcing IT jobs to India). If you have elite status and were affected by this outage, British Airways will extend your status for a further two years. You should have received the following e-mail:
As someone who flies with us so often, I want you to know that we always strive to offer you the highest level of service, and make your journey as comfortable as possible.
However, we clearly fell far short of this commitment last weekend.
I’m so sorry you had to endure such inconvenience, and understand the frustration it must have caused. So as a gesture of goodwill, we’d like to renew your current tier status for a further two years, regardless of how many Tier Points you collect in that time.
We’ll be making these changes over the coming days, and you’ll soon be able to see your updated details on ba.com.
If you want to make a claim for any food, transport and accommodation expenses, you can do this through our customer relations teams.
You can find additional information on ba.com about your customer rights and what you can submit a claim for under the EU compensation regulation.
I hope this goes some way to making up for your experience last weekend, and rest assured we’re working to safeguard against this in the future.
Again, please accept our apologies, and thank you for your patience.
It’s a nice gesture, but I’m sure most elites are more concerned about making receiving money back from their claims and also EU261 compensation at this stage.
Hat tip to OMaaT
“Last weekend British Airways suffered a massive outage due to an overwhelming IT failure (blamed on outsourcing IT jobs to India).”
Nonsense.
Pure xenophobia.
The linked article states a British Airways UNION blames the failure on outsourcing.
British Airways corporation blamed it on a “power supply failure” when this was happening. Not sure if they changed stance now.