Nicola Benedetti loses it at Heathrow
NewsThe violinist had to queue at the airport. She’s not happy.
Communication and organisation is like soooo embarrassing here @HeathrowAirport . A load of us promised we were in a queue for flights leaving before 9:15, only to then watch 3 flights departing at 9:55 be let in security queue in front of us
— Nicola Benedetti (@NickyBenedetti) July 12, 2021
Is it genuinely because people didn’t show up to work @HeathrowAirport ? No one can tell us if our flights will be delayed or if we’re about to miss them. Zero information, it’s just awful https://t.co/9CQrzZ1MYk pic.twitter.com/n7WjeBedzb
— Nicola Benedetti (@NickyBenedetti) July 12, 2021
The worst thing about these situations is all the entitled spoilt people lying and cheating their way in front of those in greater need. People are something else. Some staff doing a heroic job against all odds https://t.co/Nm0OWYkbGI
— Nicola Benedetti (@NickyBenedetti) July 12, 2021
It’s not having to queue she seemed upset about, but the lack of information and the lack of organization to give priority in order of departure times. Sounds like Heathrow is having problems staffing up rapidly, and/or training new hires adequately.
I haven’t been through Heathrow in scores of years. Is it always that bad or is this a thing because of the resumption of travel?
Why travel? Get over it. The beaches will still be there next year
who said she was going to the beach? To work more likely.
But I guess she has a concert with an audience to play too. Wish I was there.
Chill! Nicola, chill!
Sail instead of flying!
Did you read her tweets or what SD distorted ?
How dare you twitter about airport logistics and lack of communication if you are part of a system ultimately causing global climate change and pandemics!
Save up those pennies and get a private jet.
Oh a typical SD distortion. Did you actually read what she said? Would have it made any difference ? probably not. Why let the facts and the truth get in the way of a snide made up story?
Whenever you see the phrase “people in greater need” read “me”.
Doesn’t seem to me to have lost it. She sounds very found. And having coped with lack of information in the transportation business, I think she knows whereof she speaks.
She does not seem to be claiming any privileges, just queueing up with the rest of the travelling public. Now if she was an American golfer, she would be on a private jet and whingeing if it was delayed by weather or an incoming crash.
Maybe in future she will take advantage of the increasing number of sleeper trains being scheduled across Europe post-pandemic.
There really isn’t an “increasing number of sleeper trains” across Europe. Sleeper trains are a shockingly expensive and inefficient means of transport (even if the ticket price is heavily subsidized so you aren’t paying for it).
“No one can tell us if our flights will be delayed or if we’re about to miss them.”
Hmm. Maybe she should just download her airline’s app? That would give her all the flight details she needs.
Otherwise, looks like a typical summer’s day at LHR.
I was on a flight like that once: approx. a one-hour flight from Rochester to NYC. I forget the sequence of events: there was something wrong with our plane, then there was something wrong with the replacement plane, then there was some problem at LaGuardia so we couldn’t take off… something like that. And we couldn’t get booked on other flights because they were all full, or we were scheduled to leave in 10 minutes, or something. And in the meantime, other planeloads of people would come & go through our gate, because no other flights were being delayed or diverted. That one-hour flight took about 6 hours.
When we finally landed in NYC and they said “we hope you’ll consider flying New York Air for your future travel plans,” the entire plane full of people burst out laughing.
This was decades ago, before cell phones & airport rage became fashionable, so sadly I have no video proof. Sorry.
Before you mentioned ‘New York Air’, I thought you were referring to a Mohawk Airlines flight. That would’ve been normal operating procedure for them, particularly from upstate N.Y.
Simple answer: don’t ever go to the UK. They wanted to be alone. Let them.
She wanted to get out…
Long before this pandemic, LHR has consistently been the most consumer-unfriendly of all major international airports I have ever been in.
Oh, yes. And I cannot EVER recall having been on a plane that left there on time.
She’s right; the airport is too big and too busy for humans.
This is some “Sue’ Sonata Form nonsense.
If Nicola get’s upset,it must be bad.
Don’t understand why people are so desperate to fly when we have the Delta virus ripping through the UK and with one of the highest number of vaccinated people in the world for a 68 million population, and England the bigger country. But it is not foolproof and I know of five that have this new variant, two of whom were very ill but at home, and yet Pfizer double jabbed in a small town. Looks like Heathrow to me as a normal day queue, and then people catch all manner of bugs from queueing up and from the plane. Oh, well, each to there own. But the news even about Israel this morning on BBC Radio 4 with its very small population, is not good – has been a model country for other countries on how to cope with the virus. Best stay at home and be grateful to be well – so far.
Feel free to stay at home if you wish. But why don’t you let the rest of us actually live a life.
Sounds like she’s never flown before!
More likely, she has flown too often and this was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I know the feeling!
And she is likely too young to have flown much before the security enhancements post-9/11. Flying used to be such a joy.
I used to fly a great deal for work and often would return and instruct my administrative assistant “never book me on [xyz] airline again!” It didn’t take too long for her to tell me “Dave, you’ve run out of airlines to boycott.”
I remember when flying was a joy. That dates me. My only unpleasant flying experiences were when I was entering the US. (Long before 9/11). The surliest customs agents and border guards on earth, and I have met a lot of border and customs people. (Not true on land crossings from — those guys used to be very amiable).
She didn’t lose “it” because she sounds rational.
well done Nicola. This is a scandal, and I fear there will be worse to come. We have relinquished our civil liberties without a fight. this is the result.