Originally Posted by
BarelyBAGold
Front page of Sunday Times today reporting that "passengers enjoyed a complimentary cuppa last week on BA flights to Cairo and Amman". Also refers to now reduced galley space due to more seats and "little room to store tea, coffee and cups and to make hot drinks". A step in the right direction imho and given that hot drinks can be purchased in ET not sure how reference to the galley space features here but happy to stand corrected.
I read the article and my take is because they removed/shrunk galleys to ram more seats in, thus they're not going to serving free tea and coffee on those densified planes. But you're right, if they can sell it, why can't they offer it for free? My guess is that they never expect everyone to buy a tea or coffee, but everyone would if it was free. Just like everyone orders wine/beer/spirits on LCY flights (or is that just me?!
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But am I right in reading this as on Cairo and Amman flights they don't offer free food and beverage in Y currently? Never flown or looked at those routes but thought that at 5 or so hours they would serve a meal. Longest short haul I've done is to Cyprus and I do remember the old deli box being served - but this must have been 7 or 8 years ago at least! Does anyone have a timeline of the ups and down of ET of catering? I used to remember hot breakfasts and 3 course meals being served to and from Amsterdam as a starting point. Then the deli boxes, then nothing? Now Speebird (insert new name here)?