Originally Posted by
Rexy52
I flew in Club on BA 2781 on Saturday from Madeira to LGW. The flight left on time at 14.10 and lunch was served pretty promptly after take-off. There were no pre-lunch drinks offered; our first drink arrived after we'd finished the starter and no second drink arrived at all, although some further drinks were served to the first two rows (my wife and I were in row 5 of an almost full 8 row cabin).
My impression was that someone had decided to cut down on their workload and this was reinforced by the fact that the crew member serving the drinks was showing no sense of urgency, while his colleague seemed to be doing the bulk of the work handing out and collecting meals. I'd have expected a drink service before lunch and further drinks to be offered as the meal arrived and as the main course was served.
Am I being unfair, or were we short changed on the service that should have been offered?
I did FNC-LGW only 2 weeks ago. I think you are right something odd was happening - on my flight we had a drinks & nuts round first, then starters, then I think second drinks, then main course, then tea/coffee. This was the same method used on other long band flights I have had. I think someone mentioned on long band flights there can be a truncating of service if necessary, but it is hard to believe how it would be on one of the longest short haul flights BA do.