Our disgraceful National Airline

[oyster]

Buster73 said:

//j17 said:

The bds! Anyone would think we lived in a capitalist society where companies role was to make money or something...

Paid £250 each for the flight then BA wanted an extra £333 each to get on a flight about 3 hours earlier , no issue with a company making a profit , if they'd said another £50 each I'd have paid it , it's about companies giving value for money.

Would you have paid the grand extra ? , I thought not.

If they offered everyone the increased flexibility for only £50 then why would anyone spend more than this in advance on flexible tickets?

[TTOBES]

TTOBES said:

On the plus side, I was able to enjoy a couple of cans of Tribute on-board yesterday - even more of a bonus considering it wasn't meant to start until tomorrow but I asked on the off-chance:

http://mediacentre.britishairways.com/pressrelease...

Whether this replaces London Pride - due to space limitations - is unclear.

Thought I'd warn fellow ale lovers that after a work trip this week I learn that Tribute is not available in Euro Traveller. This is despite a full page ad for the stuff in Highlife magazine, although it does mention this in the link above. Thanks though to the crew for fetching me a can from the Club galley!

[The Leaper]

Tribute was available throughout the plane on my BA flight from Florence yesterday.

R

[surveyor]

Just returned from a Vegas trip.

A320 internal transfers great. Ancient dinosaur 747's really are a piece of st and well behind the competition. It is the last time I will fly on one.

Insult was added to injury on our return, when we were greeted personally and escorted to our seats in first. We were somewhat confused. Sadly the confusion was caused by the flight attendant reading the seat number for our next internal flight and we were kicked down the cabin....

More rambles.

4 BA flights. All late though none significantly
Terminal 5 is far too hot to be comfortable. I ended up being happy that our flight was one of the ones moved to T3.
1 Suitcase missed our flight. Turned up the next day, but the courier had to be persuaded to deliver it that night - a whole ten minute journey

[Puggit]

surveyor said:

Sadly the confusion was caused by the flight attendant reading the seat number for our next internal flight and we were kicked down the cabin....

You mean you showed the FA the wrong boarding pass?

[surveyor]

Puggit said:

surveyor said:

Sadly the confusion was caused by the flight attendant reading the seat number for our next internal flight and we were kicked down the cabin....

You mean you showed the FA the wrong boarding pass?

It's going to get complicated... Boarding agent tore off a bit of the pass, leaving obviously that bit on the pass for the next flight. The remainder of the pass was hidden inside the passport. I moved nothing, not realising what had happened. (I was genuinely confused when we were led to the front and I could see the seat numbers for row 4 on the bit she was holding..)

So a simple misunderstanding... I'm not blaming BA or myself, nor am I upset, it was a simple and amusing mistake that we can all make. Still it was tough seeing the seats to be kicked down the plane....

[whoami]

surveyor said:

Terminal 5 is far too hot to be comfortable.

I've noticed this too.

It's always boiling.

[whoami]

swerni said:

Odd, I've never found that.
Maybe it's your age.
Do you often get hot flushes

And night sweats.

Terrible night sweats.

[smack]

surveyor said:

Just returned from a Vegas trip.

A320 internal transfers great. Ancient dinosaur 747's really are a piece of st and well behind the competition. It is the last time I will fly on one.

The refurbed BA 747's are getting rolled which means the latest IFE, but only heavy business routes, not bucket and spade routes, which LAS falls under. I would take a dinosaur 747 over a 777 for long haul, which I have had to do for work,, all things being equal cabin wise.

[GT03ROB]

smack said:

The refurbed BA 747's are getting rolled which means the latest IFE, but only heavy business routes, not bucket and spade routes, which LAS falls under. I would take a dinosaur 747 over a 777 for long haul, which I have had to do for work,, all things being equal cabin wise.

They've just done the 747s out here & it's a vast improvement.

Funnily on the seat/boarding pass problem, I think the wife spent too long in the lounge last time she came out. Couldn't find her seat on the plane. Turns out she'd been looking at the gate number on the boarding pass not the seat number!!

[downthepub]

whoami said:

surveyor said:

Terminal 5 is far too hot to be comfortable.

I've noticed this too.

It's always boiling.

Is it? I'm through T5 every week (indeed scurried off the ABZ redeye this very morning) and have never noticed. Prefer T2 though. And Virgin. But I'll just have to get over that.