Originally Posted by
Petrus
It stinks however is a sign of the times I suppose. Pay more get less. Looks like EU travel will be ET unless in desperate need of TPs.
We've been used to the stellar years with pay less (and later) and get it all now
What does annoy me is the fact fuel surcharge has not gone down by any significant amount yet and oil has been around $40 for several months...
"We're enhancing" is the message we've been bombarded with lately. Seems more like we're getting screwed.
Perhaps we've been spoilt and are expecting too much?
I suppose the idea here is that they're offering more (2x2 rather than 2x3) and hence you need to pay more for it. We've been banging on about it for a while here after all, haven't we?
So the questions now are:
(1) What price CE vs ET? At what price difference do passengers downgrade? BA is betting that its decreasing pool of CE passengers will continue to fly CE no matter what the price.
(2) What price loyalty? At what price difference vs competition do passengers jump ship? BA seems to be betting that its strength is so unassailable that passengers won't leave.
With CE prices going up both of these questions will be tested. I hope that BA know what they're doing. As for me I will find some of the J and C class prices that I've seen very hard to justify first to myself and then to my colleagues and shareholders.