F3G - I agree with you [I think I may need to have a sit down having said that!!]
In the past, in business mode, and now in leisure mode, my first preference has always to book with BA. If they are going to start extorting an extra £50 or £60 from me for every sector I fly I will start looking elsewhere.
To be fair, it is not so much the cost, but the principle that I am against.I pay a decent price and expect a decent seat with no 'faffing about'. I've just paid a significant supplement to fly to Florida with BA this winter because I prefer the BA service to our US cousins - but there is a limit to this preference.
Willy Walsh did not exactly do much to excite in his previous job - perhaps by driving BA into the ground -sorry for the phrase - he will write his name in the history of British aviation for all the wrong reasons.
He alone will be responsible for the destruction of both Aer Lingus and BA.
- Never in the field of human conflict has one man done so little for so many!
Hopefully he will realise that by chasing the last dollar he may well alienate many full fare paying pax.