LHR-MAN on the fag-end of a transatlantic on AC. Forewent the Slow Connections Centre and exited through T1 immigration. T1 check-in pretty quiet.

No signs in the DC about consumption in the lounge...

Q class tickets got us 24EF, with a fair bit of empty space up front. Crew seemed a lot less chipper than usual (but it was early). Didn't make it back to serve food, which seemed to sell fairly well at the front of the plane. Several items were frozen, prompting much eye rolling from crew.

Priority bags came off last. At least MAN isn't changing .

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MAN-LHR on the tiniest of the worthless customer fares. Used the self check-in machine like a good boy, which offered me the whole scope of seats to choose from -- 5C, nice.

Went to drop my bag and said "5C on a tiny fare, it must be my lucky day." Agent rolled her eyes at the bag drop guard dragon, and mumbled "must be." I don't think she was rolling her eyes at me... perhaps the SSCI is not taking the changes very well either!

Several signs in the DC about consumption in the lounge. Staff not very happy about changes.

Quiet, uneventful, but delayed flight. Not allowed priority tags on my worthless customer fare, but the bag was 3rd off the belt. Nice to see that LHR isn't changing either .

EDIT: On both flights the flight crew (twice) "hoped that we enjoyed bmi's inflight service". Obviously they haven't left the cockpit for a while...

EDIT: Forgot to say -- five crew on the outbound (A320), five on the return (A321)!