Capt Ecureuill
Would you recommend looking at Cathay?
There's a Fragrant Harbour forum on pprune, where all the Cathay boys and girls post what they think of their airline. Well worth a look.
Here's an informative post from 4 days ago:
This airline is starting to look more and more like the US airlines that entered bankruptcy in the 80's. Cut, cut, cut, abuse staff, abuse staff, absurd rationalizations, excuses, lies, losing passengers, tarnished reputations, blah, blah, blah. Eventually, some grown-ups took over the management (of most of them) and started to reinvest in their product AND employees. Sadly, the myopic bunch running this airline are deaf, dumb and blind to any of this. The "Fall of Cathay Pacific" is well into it's last chapters. Someone please turn out the last dim lightbulb when it's all over. Thank you.
On a different 'accommodation' thread, another poster asks for tips on how to live in a property of 50 square feet.
Best of luck!
Meanwhile, (to paraphrase a tag line from a well known reality TV show!) bex88's search for an airline better than BA, continues!!
Now, I dunno but, maybe he can cross Cathay off his list, for an improvement in quality of life?