In one of the "Crazy Rich Asians" books a character goes BALLISTIC when he has to get a BA First Class flight to London from SIN because a member of the family already has gone off in the Gulfstream.............. ;)

CabinCrewe Yes, I accept all of that but even a small amount more may be too much. Also, as happened with Concorde, there is a view that companies do not want their people travelling F when times are hard. Whatever happens to this country in the next couple of months, I think the demand for top range seats will be further reduced.

Unless you purchase a discounted First ticket,the difference in product from Club World is not such good value.
Lounges apart,i find the BA Club World bed as comfortable as the First cabin.
The service is usually spot on,with the cabin crew in First doing a great job.
Check out the deals,some routes the fare difference is next to nothing.
Lucky to have traveled in First many times,along with Concorde in the past.
Club World is a great,consistent product,but the competition from other carriers on certain routes is amazing.
I am a loyal BA traveler and always enjoy my flights in the premium cabins

Anyone wise to whats happened with tomorrows EZE-LHR? Already showing 26 hours late..... BA closed, can't get in touch with anyone. Just what you need when paying business fares!

bigjim99 - try phoning the office in the USA or Australia - they will have different hours to the UK office. Granted it'll cost you extra on the phone bill, but if a flight was expected to be 26 hours late, I'd be wanting an answer fairly quickly
That said, it seems to be the flight that was due to leave on *Sunday* evening that is delayed til Monday evening. The flight due to leave on Monday evening does not have a delay marked against it. I suspect pax on Sunday evening's flight have already spent an evening at LHR and will have already been told why their flight is being delayed until Monday

FWIW, Heathrow departures website currently (0800L) shows " Gate open Go to gate A17 on 18 August" for yesterday's outbound flight, so that would suggest around a 10-hour delay to the 22:25L STD.

https://www.heathrow.com/departures/...-eze/18-aug-19

Not before time, if true.

This latest IT fiasco is doing real damage to the "brand" - amazing they don't seem to realise that everyone will pick up the phone and want to talk to someone when they send out emails like that............

I booked a weekend away to Scotland to use up my Avios, returning on Sunday night, which was the day that BA chose to mark their "100th anniversary". I was hoping that there would be some sort of special souvenir to mark the occasion..... and was of course extremely disappointed to find that the "gift" was a special micro-sized piece of chocolate in a "100 years" souvenir plastic wrapper.

Ah well...... After about 30 years, maybe it's time to switch loyalty to a different (dare I say "better") airline?

Lots of rumours all round the web now about Alex Cruz's departure.

Paralysis ? or Order, counter-order, ***g disorder.
 

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Paralysed ?

I looked on the BA website for the latest news …. to find – halfway through Tuesday 27th, that the latest update was posted at 1638 on 25th – Sunday. Nearly two days old and rather seriously out of date.

https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb...st-information

There was no mention whatsoever of the email fiasco where booked pax had been told in error their flights were cancelled and a few hours later were told their flights were reinstated (or had never been canx.)

But - “We are currently experiencing extremely high call volumes …”

FAQ - “Where do I go for the latest information … ?”
Answer - “This page ** will be the best place to go …. ** (goes to the link above)

They haven’t asked the CAA if they can borrow any foreign registered aircraft - yet – see today's ORS2 No. 2345 - http://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33/ORS2345.pdf

LFH

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The reserve a seat issue is a conundrum, because the casual (even in J) pax tend to book earlier, and pay a lesser fare, than the regular, higher fare, Golds and Silvers who commonly just book a few days before. And yet they can then find that all the "good" seats have gone to those who are one-offs who paid less. Highest fare, very regular traveller, worst seat.

How do you overcome this ? There's no golden way. You can do what AA do and not allow any window or aisle seat reservations for the casuals at all unless you have status until a few days out. Or you can charge, which causes a good few to wait until check-in.

BA have an internal system that prevents the seats most popular with their Gold members being offered for sale until T-24.

Going up against Delta and their 767! Portland has some decent European connectivity now between Delta, BA, Condor and Icelandair.

Once again an invitation to fill in an enormous online questionnaire that allows me to say if I think BA makes me feel good but has no space for complaints or a discussion of the awful food service and the bone hard seating

No wonder they sail on thinking they're "the world's favourite airline" when they have proofed the system against complaints

Good job Ryanair's around to take the "accolade" of worst airline from Which. It means BA is only the second worst airline! :ooh:

BA2272/2273 LGW to JFK is sold and seat booking as a B777 - 200 4 class seating 3.4.3 in economy. however for the last couple of months has been operated as a Evelop A330 -300 2 class seating economy 2.4.2

the reason I bring this up is that we are on this flight in July 2020

now if it continues we will I'm sure get a re seating email

question is why this flight constantly and why the shortage of Gatwick class B777?

The JFK route is normally scheduled to operate on a GE 777 in a 3 class configuration of 32/52/252. Occasionally the 3 class RR 777 in 32/48/252 or the GE 777 4 class in 14/48/40/136 are used but the 3 4 class 777 aircraft are mainly tied up with the BGI/UVF/BDA as they are first class routes. Any other routes out of LGW with the 4 class 777 operating (they do operate frequently on ANU) the first cabin is sold as a business product. Particularly in winter schedules and during aircraft maintenance the 4 class GE 777 do move around the routes and occasionally get seen on MCO/KIN/CUN etc infrequently.

As flyer guy has said due to ongoing 787 engine issues one of the LGW 3 class GE 777 is currently based at LHR solely covering the BWI route daily. The Evelop lease is due to end mid Jan and the route due back on BA metal after the annual pause to the route for a few weeks end of Jan/start of Feb.

Many thanks. Makes sense was/am hoping we get a sub A350 … Chance / Fat

Busiest European BA monopoly destination
 

As a regular on the BA LHR-HAJ services I wondered whether this route is in fact the busiest London (all airports) to Continental Europe destination served by only BA (currently 12/7, from Summer 2020 up to 19/7). Who would know better than this forum? :) any takers?

Is the BA website down ? It keeps telling me that it cannot find any flights.

No problems here!

I have now got it to show my outgoing flight but when I ask for the return it says that they do not exist - despite my having made a relevant booking earlier in the day.
And on the 1st. Jan. I managed to make the second booking.

The BBC is reporting that Willie Walsh is retiring as head of IAG w.e.f. 30th June. Some Spanish bloke will take over.

'Some Spanish Bloke' is of course Luis Gallego, the head of Iberia.

Hope he has some new /different views to Alex Cruz

In some parts Gallego means “some Spanish bloke”. I like to think ETOPS knows this.

According to Google, it means a Gallician. Given their Celtic-influenced culture, I doubt they like being called Spanish at all!

I can confirm that in South America, the term 'Gallego / Gallega' was (and maybe still is, I'm not sure on that bit) used to refer to any Peninsular Spaniard. I think the idea that their culture is more Celtic-influenced as anybody else's in Western Europe seems to be a modern invention based on the fact that they're on the Western seaboard of Europe. Their language is definitely Romance. But I wouldn't say those last two sentences on a dark night in Vigo :)

BA have suspended all direct flights to/from China until at least Friday (31st).

An 18+ hour delay to the 057 to JNB last night has gotta hurt the pax. Not too many spare 380s lying around.