The GF order menu may soon be gone forever
Aug 19, 2015, 11:34 am
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Out of idle curiosity is there anything at all (beyond not cook a sausage to your liking) that BA could do which you would perceive as negative and not the fault of passengers either individually or collectively?
Requiring droit de seigneur over each passengers wife? Requiring the lifelong servitude of first born children? Powering their planes by hundreds of third world children pedalling furiously?
I ask simply because I don't think I have ever seen you think anything reported here is a big deal, no matter how differently others think
Requiring droit de seigneur over each passengers wife? Requiring the lifelong servitude of first born children? Powering their planes by hundreds of third world children pedalling furiously?
I ask simply because I don't think I have ever seen you think anything reported here is a big deal, no matter how differently others think
What on earth does it matter if one voice actually perceives the problem as minor and the reactions as being out of all proportion to that particular problem? Maybe some people have other things to worry about than whether there are menus in some lounge in an airport somewhere in the world? It is possible that in the great scheme of his life he has seen real problems and does not perceive a lot of the dramas here as anything but that. Like me, he may have long ago realised that any enterprise run by human beings will have problems and failures. Maybe also he thinks that we all behave like spoilt brats when we don't get our way or what we expected for Christmas.
I said that I was not his spokesperson - but even with the
, that was a tad sharp.If HI does not get his Burger, I intend to throw a Richter scale tantrum. I will lie on the floor and scream and scream and scream. Teddies will be thrown from prams!
Aug 19, 2015, 11:47 am
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A couple of friends of mine thought BA stopped the food order service in GF since the menus have disappeared.
So nowadays they just eat from the buffet and complain their gold status got devalued.
Similarly, I'd imagine there are many golds who think the menus don't exist anymore and don't bother asking, so the volume of food orders will go down during this "trial" period, although I have no idea what BA is trying to get out of this dumb trial thing.
So nowadays they just eat from the buffet and complain their gold status got devalued.
Similarly, I'd imagine there are many golds who think the menus don't exist anymore and don't bother asking, so the volume of food orders will go down during this "trial" period, although I have no idea what BA is trying to get out of this dumb trial thing.
Aug 19, 2015, 12:10 pm
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If I was in charge of the F lounge I'd have the menu chalked up on a board on the wall....can you imagine the hoo-ha that would cause on here? Keep the menus for the CCR.
If there's a cost benefit to be had so what? I know PUCCI GALORE is not a fan of wee Willie
and the cost saving culture he introduced but I suspect if it were not for him the airline would be in the same state Air France are in......up **** creek without a paddle.
Aug 19, 2015, 12:12 pm
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Yes, I did ask. It's a trial. They are trying to ascertain the level of demand from the regulars - who will ask for burgers regardless - and therefore to establish how much demand is grazing (not the words used). The menus will be back in a few week, I rather suspect. For the time being, as with champers in GC, you're free to ask (and research on FT). Messenger here only.
So the lesson seems to be: lets all keep asking for as many different things from the menu as often as we can especially over the next couple of weeks!
Aug 19, 2015, 12:36 pm
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Aug 19, 2015, 1:30 pm
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we haven't noticed any change in the food, but certainly the lack of menus is very apparent. Easy solution for us is to take a look at the menu on here. I personally think the food and flounge are good (apart from when its busy).
For others tho, they are missing out.
A friend of mine turned gold a few months back and has been to the flounge quite a few times and until I told him last week about the menu he had no idea there was one.
But he did wonder why the servers were bringing food to others, but didn't care much as to why, as he travels for business and was too busy to find out.
For others tho, they are missing out.
A friend of mine turned gold a few months back and has been to the flounge quite a few times and until I told him last week about the menu he had no idea there was one.
But he did wonder why the servers were bringing food to others, but didn't care much as to why, as he travels for business and was too busy to find out.
If I now find out that I could have ordered Eggs Benedict, there will be hell to pay!
Aug 19, 2015, 1:45 pm
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I was through on Sunday and assumed the lack of menus meant there was some kind of temporary operational problem meaning they weren't serving. I saw a total of two on one podium, and that's it... and I thought my search was reasonably thorough!
I would have enquired, but was more interested in checking out the disappointment of the Aspire lounge. Perhaps BA have seen that and decided they can drop their standards?
I would have enquired, but was more interested in checking out the disappointment of the Aspire lounge. Perhaps BA have seen that and decided they can drop their standards?
Aug 19, 2015, 2:27 pm
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Back in the real world, I really can't see them not having some sort of all day request menu as part of the GF product. It would be almost as ludicrous as not incorporating a GF lounge into the new developments at LGW
Aug 19, 2015, 3:00 pm
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Out of curiosity (not a leading question), how many of us or how many pax in general order from the menu?
I have never ordered anything from the menu whilst using GF since it opened and always assumed it's tiny proportion of people who order rather than use the buffet?
I have never ordered anything from the menu whilst using GF since it opened and always assumed it's tiny proportion of people who order rather than use the buffet?