{"id":20602,"date":"2016-07-23T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/one-british-airways-passenger-fought-back-and-you-can-too\/"},"modified":"2016-07-23T13:12:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T06:12:28","slug":"one-british-airways-passenger-fought-back-and-you-can-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/one-british-airways-passenger-fought-back-and-you-can-too\/","title":{"rendered":"One British Airways passenger fought back \u2013 and you can too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nThe trio of Consumer Champions letters last week concerning BA cancellations and delays prompted barrister Richard Colbey to tell us about his experiences with the airline, and advise how travellers might fight backHaving had a turbulent relationship with BA over the past few years, I was amused to read the horror stories of BA\u2019s customer service in Guardian Money last week. BA, now merged with Iberia in the grandly named International Airlines Group (IAG), is a great company in many ways, but its attitude to some of its customers helps no one, including itself. Related: We thought we\u2019d booked a flight on BA but ended up on a budget airline  Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2016\/jul\/23\/passengers-ba-british-airways-cancellations-delays\" target=\"_blank\">One British Airways passenger fought back \u2013 and you can too<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; The trio of Consumer Champions letters last week concerning BA cancellations and delays prompted barrister&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-5mi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":70330,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/british-airways-pays-compensation-at-last-but-sends-it-to-wrong-bank-account\/","url_meta":{"origin":20602,"position":0},"title":"British Airways pays compensation at last \u2013 but sends it to wrong bank account","date":"October 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r We still have not got our dues for cancelled flight in MayBack in May we were caught up in a British Airways fiasco \u2013 our flight to Ibiza was cancelled, forcing us to buy alternatives with Monarch. 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