Originally Posted by
MrAOK
In answer to one question above, I generally fly economy to Europe and in the few instances I've flown Business, it's been from the US to or from Europe, not the inter European routes. Last year I flew Turkish business class including routes from FCO and ATH to IST and I don't remember the business class seats being the same as coach seats.
What surprised me was the use of these seats on the 4 hour ATH-LHR flight, not on far shorter inter-Europe routes.
BA makes a big point of how much wider its seats for World Traveler Plus are for premium economy on intercontinental flights than regular economy, then turns around and offers Business class travelers seats on intereuropean flights seats with the same width and recline as many coach passengers, It's pretty odd.
And those WTP travelers will end up in regular Y when they get on to their intra-European connecting legs. The product that BA markets for it's intercontinental flights is not the product that it markets or offers for it's intra-Europe flights.
That same A320 might end up on an LHR-CDG or LHR-MAN or LHR-AMS on it's next leg. It's not always operating 4hr stage lengths.
As pointed out up thread - Turkish is an outlier. LH, OS, AF, KL, etc all have an-intra Europe business class that is basically the same as BA's.
It's not odd. It's the European airline approach to intra-Europe J. It's not the US standard, and it may be inferior to that product, but it is also not the US. There was no need to be surprised: a couple of minutes of pre-trip research on the BA website would have told you what to expect,