Originally Posted by Aisle Seat H

Ah, so you mean they are exactly the same as BA then?!?

On Euro flights (and on domestic of course) food is often just a cookie/biscuit/etc (only at meal times on Euro flights is there something more substantial), and I have lost count how many times on BA shorthaul I have been delayed for longer than the duration of the flight itself (I must have had an hour and a half or more delay 10 to 15 times on BA Euro and domestic flights in just the last two years [about 1 in 5 of all the flights I have taken with them, and about 1 in 3 of the shorthaul flights I have taken with them).

And on AA you have to pay for alcoholic drinks longhaul and even for food on domestic, while both are free on AB.

In fact on American Eagle AA flights they even have the temerity to charge $3 for the nuts!!! (See 3/4 of the way down the page - http://www.aa.com/i18n/travelInforma...ealService.jsp)

So in this regard they are as, or even less, 'low-cost' that a few established OW (so-called) 'full service' carriers!

So AB will fit in very nicely with their new partners!