Originally Posted by
FrancisA
I recently did the final LGW flight of the day to AGP in CE. As I had been at work all day and had limited chance to grab anything other than a sandwich, I fully excepted the food on this flight this to be my main meal.
To me, it wasn't really a good idea to rely on an airline to provide your main meal of the day, especially when you have a food preference.
As a GCH, I was in 2A on a 734 (selected for months before the flight). There was no 1A-1C. On boarding the plane, i found that another passenger was sat next to me in 2C in a fairly empty CE cabin. No-one was there the night before. Casually looking at his BP, I noticed that he had no status - £59 upgrade?
Does it really matter why he is sitting there, and if he has a status or not?
It sounds like you are upset that non-fish meal was taken by this passenger, but that is not this passenger's fault.
By my turn, 2A in a 734, I am offered a choice of salmon pasta or salmon salad. "But I don't eat fish" was my comment in horror. "What are they eating?" "Chicken Teriaky" was the response, "but we only had limited quantities loaded!"
Is there any way of indicating that you do not eat fish in your BAEC preference or on MMB?
I suspect that this limited loading of meal choices is an attempt to make further savings on CE catering. I cannot however understand why BA want to upset regular customers in this way.
You wouldn't have liked to be on a Band 4 flight I was on. I was the only pax in CE, and there was no choice of meals. It happens. Luckily I didn't mind the sole item on offer though (besides, I wasn't that hungry anyway).
You could have asked to see if the economy class had a non-fish meal.