Originally Posted by subject2load

And very often the picture is rather different, and you will have to pay a higher fare with BA, quite apart from their additional seat fees.

Take a popular route such as LHR-DXB. Random example dates in J class, out June 19, back June 26 :

lowest fare, with BA = £ 1978

lowest fare, with EK = £ 1904

And there are of course various other (included) benefits when flying EK.

Originally Posted by HIDDY

Surprising a state run airline can't always offer a cheaper direct fare to its home hub than the competition. Maybe something to do with the EU investigation into how they operate?

Originally Posted by HMPS

That is certainly news to some of us...a link or copy of article please ?

BTW as a CUSTOMER matters not to me whether an airline is Govt owned ..if the fare, SERVICE, ground experiences are better, they get my money.

Originally Posted by HIDDY

Well you just need to GOOGLE something like - eu commission unfair competition airlines - that should return enough material to give you the gist of it.

Originally Posted by HIDDY

Strange, I never got as many as that. Sure out of habit you didn't type 'Why is BA CUSTOMER SERVICE so bad'?

Originally Posted by HMPS

Good effort at deflecting a question ! Are you sure you did not work in the Govt ?
And BTW, the mentions of poor BA CUSTOMER Service are becoming more frequent.

Originally Posted by HIDDY

The first page of search results will be enough to give you the info you're after. EK do seem to have started changing their ways. I suspect QR will as well especially if they want to remain part of Oneworld.