BA charge pax £75 for laptop plug !!

[rogerk]

BA recently charged a passenger £75 for an adaptor to power his laptop.

Hey there is a whole new game here !!

Overhead Locker supplement £50
Boarding levy £20 to get on £50 to get off
Toilets with £2 slot to open the door
50p dispenser for a sheet of bum paper
Headset hire - £5 per hour
Attendant button usage fine £10 a go !!

.... anyone got any more !!

[danielson81]

Seatbelt: £10
Oxygen Mask: £5 to activate then £14.99 per litre of oxygen. (Minimum of 10 litres).
Life vests (See page 24 of our inflight magazine for details of other products you can buy on our onboard shop!):
£5 (A rubber ring!)
£15 (A rubber ring with a whistle!),
£25 (This one actually works!)


However due to safety regulations these fees are compulsory and will not be refunded if not used. DieinAir thanks you for your understanding.

[Final 3 Greens]

I suspect that the passenger bought an inverter unit or dc mains unit from the duty free shop.

As much as I don't rate BA as a top airline these days, I think this post is pretty stupid.

Let's see

£200 for a ticket

£10 for optional travel insurance

£150 for a hotel room

That sounds fair enough to me.

[Captain Airclues]

rogerk

The adaptor/inverter is currently £69 in the BA on-line shop. This is about the same for similar units available in shops. Are you suggesting that BA should have given him one for free?

Dave

[Standard Noise]

Couldn't he just have sat on the plane and daydreamed like the rest of us do?
If your life is sooo busy that you need to use a laptop on board then it's time to move to the sticks and grow solar panels.

[rogerk]

Not for free but ..

If I travel on a French/German train the laptop power supply under my seat does not need an "adaptor" so why not have the right "connector" under the seat in the first place - or is that too simple ??

[PAXboy]

The tread title says: Laptop plug
The first msg says: an adaptor
Third and Fourth msgs say: a power inverter
Sixth msg says: an adaptor

Any advances? Or clarification for that matter ...?

[rogerk]

Jet Set Lady

No it won't - but an "adaptor" will cost you 3 quid max !!

[SandyGarrity]

rodgerk

A train is not a plane.

I perfer to spend my time looking out the window in both a plane and train.

[419]

Here you go Paxboy.

BA's £75 inflight laptop charge

[Llademos]

The new-new BA Club World has an USA plug socket that, for most adapters (laptop etc) only requires a cheap US-UK adapter (they generally don't need the voltage changing to work).

This must have been on the 'old new' Club World where the plug is similar to a car cigarette lighter socket but a different size.

Ll

[Der absolute Hammer]

For more income BA could pimp a load of old multi linguistic tarts as stewardess and take a cut of the takings once outside the three mile limit, or above it?
Oh! Found this on UK on line shop website. You see, it is an inverter.so question really is, what power is available at BA seat power socket, DC or AC?
The 90 Watt Inflight Power Adapter can be plugged into aircraft seat power sockets powering your laptop at 35,000ft. Unlike other inflight power adapters, the Inflight Power is universal and will work with most laptops as well as other electrical items such as CD players or digital cameras. the Inflight Power can also be plugged directly into a car cigarette lighter socket.
It has built in overload/surge protection and weighs less than 1lb. The 90W Inflight Power is the first DC/AC power inverter to earn approval by the RTCA (Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics)
List Price: £76.00 per UNIT

[apaddyinuk]

Well Der, Im one of those Old Linguistic Tarts as your refer to despite the fact that Im 27....you ignorant fart!

Anyway, The Old Club World flatbed requires the Adaptor which can be purchased from the dutyfree. They are supplied free of charge to First passengers.
The New Club World seat does not require it and has a standard US plug at the foot of the seat. The adapter you buy can be used universally however I know that it is probably becoming outdated as USB plug adapters seem to be coming the norm, something I am sure the cabins of the new aircraft will feature from next year.
I believe BA are planning on introducing the adapters on a rent basis from next year when the 767 and a handful of the 777s will be the only aircraft remaining with the old system.

And just to ad, they have been selling these adapters for YEARS on BA, is it a slow mud slinging week or something? Christ, the lengths people will go to just to have a whinge about BA!!!

[rogerk]

...have a whinge about BA!!!

Not difficult apaddyinuk but with your loyalty hang in there love you will make CSD one day !!

[Final 3 Greens]

Couldn't he just have sat on the plane and daydreamed like the rest of us do? If your life is sooo busy that you need to use a laptop on board then it's time to move to the sticks and grow solar panels.

Well this is a leading contribution to qualify the poster for the village idiot of the year competition.

I take about 110 flights per year.

I estimate that I work for an average of 1 hour per flight.

That is about three weeks working time that would otherwise have to be fitted in on the ground and would interfere with the quality of my family life.

That's why the premium classes of airlines almost always provide power and top hotels have business centres - time is money. (a lot of money.)

[PAXboy]

Well, thanks 419 That does answer the question.

If BA can sell the item for £69 then that is all fair and good. The individual in question decided not to investigate the details and then decided to pay the asked price and have the unit to use again. It may be that I have travelled more than some (but less than others) but airliners do not supply 110/220 AC for pax use as standard, whereas trains often do.

True that the BA did not inform the prospective pax of the detail but we do not know how the question was phrased and if by email or phone, whether direct to BA or through an agent. On this occasion I feel sorry for BA who have been pilloried beyond what is involved.

[Der absolute Hammer]

I was not having a whinge against BA. Only showing that BA price £75 was less than £76 of adapter on internet. Also, I said that BA should employ a load of old tarts, not that they did already.

Final 3 Greens

A lot of money and a good family point that generates one long hypothetical question.
If you were to take a flight on business for a client and on that flight you put in an hours work for that client, would you bill the client for the hours work and total travel time as well?
As a lawyer time can be £450 an hour, for example, I wonder?

[Final 3 Greens]

If you were to take a flight on business for a client and on that flight you put in an hours work for that client, would you bill the client for the hours work and total travel ti

Not a hypothetical question for me, I do charge my clients for work done aloft.

e.g. last year, on a flight from Zurich to Riyadh, I wrote and urgent short paper that a client requested in the morning of the flight and emailed it on arrival at the hotel at the far end. IIRC that was about 3.5 hours work (or half a day in broad terms.)

The client was delighted to pay for the paper at such short notice and I was pleased to use the time productively.

A spin off benefit is that the flights seem to pass more quickly when concentrating on work, which is good when one travels so much.

Charging for travel time is always tricky, as it is generally costed into professional rates, but if a client wishes me to travel to LAX for the day (I did it once) or similar, then I would consider it.

I would not double charge the client, but on the other hand I would not do too mcuh work going to LAX and back in 48 hours it is extremely tough

[Der absolute Hammer]

Thank you, that is exactly what I thought would be a principled response.

[Final 3 Greens]

but airliners do not supply 110/220 AC for pax use as standard

The trouble these days is that some do and some don't.

In the past 6 weeks I've used 110v AC seat power on Iberia (A343/346) and on Emirates (772.) I've also used AC power on LH (333.)

Some airlines use DC current (e.g. BA), but to confuse matters some airlines do both, e.g. BA where 10 A320s provide AC in club.

So caveat emptor and research is required.

My DC inverter also has a car adaptor (as I imagine the BA one may) so they can be used in the car on picnics and stuff - quite useful.