Originally Posted by
KARFA
well it is certainly a loss of one element of the CE service, but it is not a downgrade to Y considering that all the other elements which remain unaffected.
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The fact that BA provided part of the service is not, IMHO, relevant if
LCY8737 argues that the only and solely reason they booked J was because of the empty middle seat and that they would gladly have forfeited all the other aspects of the service.
Before anyone says that BA doesn't promise an empty middle: they do. They say in their marketing blurb that all seats in CE are aisle or window, which implies an empty middle.
I used this argument against AF (they didn't provide me with a meal on a LHR-CDG) and got a £600 refund (difference between J and Y). Apparently most people in this forum would have said I was owed £3 for the ready meal.