Originally Posted by
elwe
I recently had an involuntary downgrade from ET (exit row) to CE on a plane with the new cabins. I plan on complaining to BA and asking for the EU involuntary downgrade compensation, not because I think I would get it, but to drive home the point that the new cabins have killed CE for someone as tall as I am. Though with all the evidence on this thread of CE being cheaper than ET maybe I have a case for the compensation...
If you do, let us know how you get on with that.
You could have always declined the upgrade on the condition that you got put back in the exit row you had originally asked for.
Originally Posted by
flying_pig
Now, you could argue that SAS now offers a "revisited product" and business class is now a different concept...
Whenever I hear an airline use the word "concept", alarm bells start ringing in my head. An "Exciting New Concept" is basically, "We're going to take away your lunch". It's like "enhancement".
It's just all part of this race to the bottom that we seem to have found ourselves in. SAS used to have a pleasant biz class about 10 years ago.
Originally Posted by
Dicksbits
A few observations about my Club Europe experience to Malta from LGW yesterday:
- There was no pre-boarding call despite 9 rows of business class.
Last time I flew out of Gatwick, a couple of weeks ago to FCO, where we had 6 rows of J, no pre-boarding, no Fast Track at all.
- a passenger opposite me told the purser his beef curry was the most disgusting thing he'd had in the cabin for a long time (to be fair it did look like dog food on rice).
I had that on Saturday. Didn't look the most spectacular thing on the planet, and had a bit of an air of something you might make from leftovers - which is part of the above problem I'd guess, but it tasted fine.
Mike