Originally Posted by
CCayley
It would be helpful if some such designation could be dreamed up because otherwise anything BA does to improve its first class product on the ground will have the same problem. If BA contrived to provide escorts by car from the CCR at T5 direct to the 'plane for passengers in First to match AF's offering, for example, I would guess FT would have about a nanosecond of peace before a long dreary thread from outraged CCR cardholders who didn't get an escort to their flight was started...
Actually - I think if the numbers we get from the briefing sheets are right and there's generally only 12-15 CCR/Prems going through T5 on a daily basis - I think they'd have a right to feel peeved at being excluded.
300 odd departures a day - let's assume 50% are LH - and for argument they all have First. That's 150 x 14 (average seat count) maximum capacity. 2100 people. Failing to include 15 (or even 30 if you allow for guests) onto that 2100 would seem ... petty.
Even if the numbers were at 1000 people a day - then not accounting for the additional 30 would be petty.