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NickB
I am not sure I would put these on an equal footing, though. The improvements at both end of the spectrum (short and long) look marginal but the downgrade in the middle is very substantial.
It seems to me that the most significant impact is on the old band 3 routes. There seems to be a genuine, meaningful improvement for the longer ones (mostly leisure destinations) that now fall in "long." OTOH, there is a very substantial downgrading for the ex-band 3s that now fall in "medium".
I fully agree with your analysis.
To be honest, I'm not even sure that I think of short as improved (either substantively or marginally) as the former main course salad for lunch/dinner was much larger than the new 'amuse bouche' version, the brunch plate has reduced in size, and the afternoon tea has lost its scones (not something I'll personally miss but I know many will) so it seems to me that many short route flyers will consider themselves worse rather than better off.
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NickB, apart from domestic, I'd say that the most significant impact by very, very far, and the only significant change is for former band 3. It's as though some BA router was dispatching band 3 flights to heaven or hell with his/her magic wand, with the former 3B being much improved particularly for former brunch and tea time flights, and the former 3A being very much worse off, particularly for lunch and dinner time flights.