Will Tier Point earnings stay the same? Otherwise I am in trouble in terms of requalification, as AMM is a regular route of mine.
Don't like the idea of no catering or IFE on a 5 hour flight, and from what I can see there is no reduction in price; just doing a dummy booking for November gets me a £417 quote, which is similar to previous years off-season prices - for what would be a LCC serivce on a medium haul route I would not pay more than £250.
I would switch to RJ in a flash (especially when they return to T3) but for the poor Avios TP earning inhibiting requalification. Their comparative hard product will be considerably better on this route now. Would prefer BA to just codeshare with RJ which would enable decent hard product AND decent avios and TP earnings. Shouldn't have to choose between the two.