Our disgraceful National Airline

Our disgraceful National Airline

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Puggit

48,355 posts

247 months

Sunday 13th March 2016
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GT03ROB said:
Well our disgraceful National Airline came through again last night.

Nicely nestled in my WT+ seat looking forward to a horrid overnighter, along comes a steward & quietly says "Mr GT03ROB, would you like to collect you belongings & follow me." Off we go.... and it's "I assume you'd like upper deck, so just take the seat you want." The best upgrade there is..... WT+ to Club on an overnighter.

Apparently somebody was making a fuss about not having a bassinet seat in economy, so they had to do some onboard reshuffling & I got the long straw!
I hate you tongue out

creampuff

6,511 posts

142 months

Sunday 13th March 2016
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GT03ROB said:
Nicely nestled in my WT+ seat looking forward to a horrid overnighter
I know this feeling. Gone are those glory days of work in the oil industry and I've just booked myself a trip to the Far East in PEY instead of J as a cost cutting measure wink

oyster

12,577 posts

247 months

Monday 14th March 2016
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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

609 posts

166 months

Friday 20th May 2016
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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

4,937 posts

205 months

Friday 20th May 2016
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Tribute was available throughout the plane on my BA flight from Florence yesterday.

R

surveyor

17,768 posts

183 months

Monday 30th May 2016
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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

48,355 posts

247 months

Monday 30th May 2016
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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

17,768 posts

183 months

Monday 30th May 2016
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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

13,151 posts

239 months

Monday 30th May 2016
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surveyor said:
Terminal 5 is far too hot to be comfortable.
I've noticed this too.

It's always boiling.

whoami

13,151 posts

239 months

Monday 30th May 2016
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swerni said:
Odd, I've never found that.
Maybe it's your age.
Do you often get hot flushes wink
yes

And night sweats.

Terrible night sweats.

smack

9,727 posts

190 months

Monday 30th May 2016
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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

13,210 posts

220 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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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

1,373 posts

205 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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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.