Originally Posted by TabTraveller

I'd say a large part of this comparison is down to people who haven't flown the product and see a photo of a BA F seat and a photo of a CX/QR J seat and think to themselves 'hmmm doesn't really look much different'. They then make the rather stupid comment that BA F is worse than CX/QR J. It is probably fairer to say that QR offers, on certain routes and aircraft, a F- product at business class prices. But then the same can be said of carriers like VS who don't offer F (increasingly the case on QR) so can add features such as dine on demand to J.

Originally Posted by Oaxaca

I don't know whether or not all the people making the comparison have flown the product, but I would largely agree with you. Whatever BA F is and is not, for me I am yet to fly any J cabin I found better than BA F in absolute terms (including CX, QR, SQ, EK, new AA and so on). It's subjective of course, but I suppose the issue for many is the diminishing difference between BA F and some other J makes one question the price premium.

It was interesting that the OP felt that BA F is not a big upgrade on BA CW, and I wouldn't share that opinion (though again maybe depends how much extra you are paying).