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Old Jul 23, 2017, 3:52 pm
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BahrainLad
 
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Originally Posted by gosha83
£379 is exactly what I had paid to fly BA to Dubai a couple of years ago with all the "perks" still in place, so I'm not sure that he appeals to me with the notion that it's a lower price than before (maybe if converted into dollar terms, given that the GBP is worth 20-30% less than it did then but that should be irrelevant to the flying public in the UK, who didn't see their wages adjusted for this drop).
BA have always been able to offer super cheap fares if they wanted to, during sales, after the Gulf War, financial crisis etc.

It is not a credible excuse for trashing the product rather a lot of margin-pocketing is going on.
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