Originally Posted by
leosantos
Its amazing how the people on here will defend the totally awful products and services of BA. Yet they just keep on getting worse and worse at everything and for sure they are bleeding the passengers dry at every opportunity.
I'm more curious that people spend forever criticizing BA on here yet keep flying them. If they're as bad as everyone says then why do people still clock up so many miles on BA seats? The OP seems stuck to whoever offers the best price, which is an approach few seem to normally take.
So, sratus must play a role for sure and the fact that not all grass is greener. Plenty of subclass experiences to be had on other airlines and I include QR in that. They may be more consistent, but it's a misconception that they provide some magical experience every single time.
The lounge situation this last few weeks is appalling I admit but shows how popular the experience has been for people. Delta have been suffering the same problems and people have to queue for the AM lounge in Doha. I'm not sure anyone flying BA regularly will fancy the same type of solution offered by DL to tackle overcrowding or lounge entry only by class of travel.
Part of the problem is BA gets compared to the ME3 and some Asian carriers and it's not favorable in many aspects. Compare it to AA, Delta, UA, Finnair etc, it doesn't look so bad, especially in the bleeding passengers dry part. All revenue based status airlines where cash is king. BA have bucked that trend making lounge access etc more accessible to most. Going forward, if BA makes getting status and access harder it'll get criticized, if it makes it easier then it'll gets criticized. How do they win?
I'm curious to hear what the solution is to the lounge problem because if BA raise the entry requirements it will again be branded the worst airline ever. It was generally well praised for it's handling of status during the pandemic and seems to have shot itself in the foot a little now. Are people here ready for a big correction, a bit like in the markets? Some people will celebrate it because they have the money to keep the perks, others will lament it as BA being greedy.
Question to any silver members, would you be happy to hit 1000 TPs, no double TPs allowed, along with a minimum of 10000 GBP spend on BA?