No more upgrades onboard
Nov 7, 2008, 10:21 am
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No more upgrades onboard
With immediate effect you will not be able to pay onboard to upgrade.
BA will be encouraging passengers to upgrade before they fly. When we have our new dutyfree computors onboard there will be a review to see if upgrading onboard is to return.
CIHY
BA will be encouraging passengers to upgrade before they fly. When we have our new dutyfree computors onboard there will be a review to see if upgrading onboard is to return.
CIHY
Nov 7, 2008, 10:29 am
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After such a sparkling set of financials today, 
and a share price that has fallen off a cliff, it really doesn't surprise me that BA have decided to axe another revenue stream....
Once you have got on your 12hr long-haul flight in the cut-down 31" economy middle seat sat next to the passenger from hell with a one year old jumping up and down on the lap etc etc... you may just think it worth upgrading... can't go back to BA.com then, or the lounge.....
and a share price that has fallen off a cliff, it really doesn't surprise me that BA have decided to axe another revenue stream.... Once you have got on your 12hr long-haul flight in the cut-down 31" economy middle seat sat next to the passenger from hell with a one year old jumping up and down on the lap etc etc... you may just think it worth upgrading... can't go back to BA.com then, or the lounge.....
Nov 7, 2008, 11:01 am
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After such a sparkling set of financials today, and a share price that has fallen off a cliff, it really doesn't surprise me that BA have decided to axe another revenue stream....
Once you have got on your 12hr long-haul flight in the cut-down 31" economy middle seat sat next to the passenger from hell with a one year old jumping up and down on the lap etc etc... you may just think it worth upgrading... can't go back to BA.com then, or the lounge.....
and a share price that has fallen off a cliff, it really doesn't surprise me that BA have decided to axe another revenue stream.... Once you have got on your 12hr long-haul flight in the cut-down 31" economy middle seat sat next to the passenger from hell with a one year old jumping up and down on the lap etc etc... you may just think it worth upgrading... can't go back to BA.com then, or the lounge.....
...wonder if there will be last minute paid upgrades advertised/available at check-in? Presumably the biggest maket for these are people on company travel whose company makes them travel economy....
.... oh wait a minute, is this a reaction to more companies making their employees fly economy (if at all)? This change in companies' travel policies may make the demand for onboard upgrades increase? Not that stopping onboard upgrades is likely to have any affect on changing companies' travel policies (and hence increasing premium cabin bookings again....). I think that the only people to suffer will be the poor people travelling on "Y only" company travel policies... even less chance of getting an upgrade (unless they are op-uped...).
Interesting...
Boo
Nov 7, 2008, 12:24 pm
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Thanks Can I help you for advising us.
I have not made use of this service, but there is/was always the possibility that I might have done this for some of the reasons mentioned by Skipcool3.
Seems quite short sighted and not too much of an administrative effort for the CSD, although I am happy to be corrected.
Hopefully this will be re considered when the new (hopefully working....!) duty free computers are introduced.
I have not made use of this service, but there is/was always the possibility that I might have done this for some of the reasons mentioned by Skipcool3.
Seems quite short sighted and not too much of an administrative effort for the CSD, although I am happy to be corrected.
Hopefully this will be re considered when the new (hopefully working....!) duty free computers are introduced.
Nov 7, 2008, 12:46 pm
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I don't understand what this has got to do with computers. On both occasions when I bought upgrades from WT+ to CW on board, there was no computer anywhere to be seen. I signed a hand written form filled in by the CSD. Even my credit card details were merely filled in and my credit card wasn't swiped on any machine on board. Is this just an excuse so that they can fob people off in the hope it will be long forgotten by the time the new computers arrive?
It does after all seem ridiculous to me that there may be people sitting down the back with £600 to spend, and half empty CW cabin up front, and BA is going to say "sorry mate- keep youre £600 we don't want it, even though our profits have just plunged". You'd think they would want every penny they could get!
It does after all seem ridiculous to me that there may be people sitting down the back with £600 to spend, and half empty CW cabin up front, and BA is going to say "sorry mate- keep youre £600 we don't want it, even though our profits have just plunged". You'd think they would want every penny they could get!
Nov 7, 2008, 12:49 pm
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It does after all seem ridiculous to me that there may be people sitting down the back with £600 to spend, and half empty CW cabin up front, and BA is going to say "sorry mate- keep youre £600 we don't want it, even though our profits have just plunged". You'd think they would want every penny they could get!
Ooops, I digress into conspiracy theories...
Boo
Nov 8, 2008, 3:10 am
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Maybe it is a catering thing? Maybe BA are going to cut back further on the catering, making onboard upgrades nigh on impossible anyway? I know that onboard upgrades are "subject to catering being available", but maybe doing away with them altogether just takes the strain away from catering that they intend to cut back further anyway
Boo
Boo
If I was a BA shareholder I'd be miffed at this decision to axe a revenue stream.