Is the whole BA Terminal 5 fiasco a conspiracy by anti BA/Term 5 groups?

Question

Were security personnel and baggage handlers and car park attendants 'got to' and paid off or even planted in the staff to cause chaos and confusion by a rival company to BA or those against term 5? How can something go so terribly wrong without outside inteference? Sounds dodgy to me....

Answer 1

no, the staff were trained in groups not all together so that any one group didnt know the sequence of order that the jobs were to be carried out in, so the baggage handlers were not the only ones to be confused!

Answer 2

No it was just typical British ineptitude in management and planning.

Answer 3

No, it's too diabolical to be a conspiratorial plan. The shame is that one only need to look at previous examples - from Denver to Bangkok- to know that this was going to happen.

Answer 4

Lol. Maybe. On the BBC news they said that it was more to do with lack of staff training. Apparently some of the staff didn't even turn up to the training sessions, and on the day, many were stuck in security trying to get to their jobs, or in the carpark trying to find a space. I do believe that lack of moral had a lot to do with it, having once worked within a large company myself, I can say that sometimes the senior figures have trouble remembering that when moral is low, and the employees are not happy, they can indeed bring work to a slowdown or even halt.

Answer 5

BA were so cocky they forgot about Murphy's Law: "Things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance."

They should have spent money on a full dress rehearsal with thousands of paid volunteers and all staff in place. This would probably have cost less than 10% of what they've now lost in passenger compensation, fare refunds and loss of future business through a damaged reputation.

Answer 6

I think it is a conspiracy by BA who would love to see BAA split up and the airports come under independant control.

Here we have a multi billion pound BAA terminal with world wide interest in it's opening and it all turns to ratsh!te.

What a great way to prompt the investigation into BAA's workings and monopoly situation.