Originally Posted by
BingBongBoy
On Short Haul, after the breakfast service time, that finishes at 10:00AM, the catering on all Domestic, Band 1, 2 and 3A flights will be reduced to biscuits and skybites. From my understanding of the communication, there will be no more sandwich packs offered at lunch and dinner time.
that's pretty poor. Oh well, I have to go to Plane Food or Itsu to pick up food for short flights out of LHR then. Pity they can't offer optional extra food, considering that there's hardly anything to buy to take on board at CDG T2F etc.
Is Band 4 CE affected in any way? I'd be pretty annoyed if they reduced catering in any drastic manner on that route. Being 3+ hour flights, I would really like to see a decent level retained.
As for the water cup on WT... thank goodness I don't do WT but still, I want a cap on my water, thanks very much, I prefer not to have it in a cup that I would knock over unless I have a tray out all the time on a long haul flight. (I guess this will mean I'd buy a bottle of water at the airport if I were flying WT.)
It's not that I'd starve if I don't get fed on those flights. But I do feel that it's going in a wrong direction - semi-LCC-isation of BA through over-aggressive cost-cutting attempts does not sit well with me. I choose to pay extra fly BA to avoid LCCs, if it turns into something similar to LCCs, what's the point in paying extra? If they want to become an LCC, they should have kept Go.
Next they'll be charging for exit row seats (like QF started doing, eww).