Chris B.
BA Denies Online Check-in and Seat Choices
Because BA insists on intending pax using this to upload covid test status etc. it has banned online-check-in, even denying reserving seats paid for and free. This is grossly affecting pax. such as the elderly, families with kids, and those who like certain seats. The app. is simply not fit for purpose, especially based on mobile phones with tiny on screen keyboards. It lacks a 'save as' function, so that when it crashes - most of the time - everything input is lost requiring the hapless pax to have to re-enter from the start. The app. fails to accept uploaded PDFs of covid test results or scans of passports. And it fails to capture the facial profile of the user. It is reported to have hundreds of bugs. Yet BA is forcing pax to use it, by denying then online check-in and seat reservations. Indeed so successful is it (/sarc) that the special fast track through Security for users at LHR T5 has been abandoned by both check-in staff and pax. ALL of whom are reported to deem it a TOTAL waste of time.



