Originally Posted by
Prospero
My person preference is to avoid sticky overload. These are my thoughts on the 4 current stickies:
Read this first - The Ultimate BA Guide
No teflon coating needed - this thread deserves a good dollop of UHU. ^
List of all known issues with ba.com (and related BA Policy)
It still serves a useful purpose - more to regulars than new members of the community, so I am inclined to vote for this one to be untethered.
Ultimate guide to what routes have BA's new clubworld seat
Or should this now be which routes do not feature NCW 2.0?
I expect discussion on this shall continue, most probably peaking again once the 777 embodiment comes on line. Does it still warrant ever present sticky status? Probably yes as it allows containment of discussion avoiding ad hoc posting of related threads. Having said that, I hold no strong feelings on this.
ULTIMATE BA Upgrade Guide - For All Your Upgrade Questions!
I would like to see this incorporated into a single ultimate "read this first" guide. Jenbel raised a good point about its historic purpose and this shouldn't be overlooked but I am confident with some clever rewording along the lines as suggested by G-BOAC, this can still be achieved with a single, all-encompassing ultimate thread,
As a postscript, I'd like to add that I have read suggestions over on the TalkBoard Topics forum that a stickied link to the Travel & Dining: UK & Ireland forum be added here. I would be firmly against such a proposal, for no reason other than I not a fan of superfluous stickies.
I would broadly agree with these suggestions.
As a user of several fora throughout the interweb, I am familiar with several newsgroup style boards such as this one.
As a relative newcomer, I was seriously impressed by the sticky and its comprehensive nature, especially the way the individual posts are linked to at the first page. IMHO this is the way forward for many of the currently stickied threads, being incorporated into the ULTIMATE Guide, which is a terrific piece of work by those who compiled it.
I would however make a plea for brevity and concise use of language; especially important for committee-edited pieces.
Apart from the loss of the gree arrow thingy, why has ULTIMATE been decapitalised? Perhaps this could be fixed to make it distinctive from other "Ultimate" threads (which, technically I suppose would be penultimate threads...)?
1) The naming of the stickies is also important.
Read This First - The BA ULTIMATE GUIDE including How To Get An Upgrade
The thread should prominently include the words British Airways/BA as otherwise not all comers will understand what the ULTIMATE GUIDE (UG) is all about - though I know it's pretty obvious to most here.
Capitalisation draws the eye to this post, as does the green arrow.
Incorporating the Upgrade sticky into this guide should answer most everyone's questions about using miles, or cash/bribery/a suit and tie to garner an upgrade...and therefore it makes total sense to have a permanent link to an upgrade thread.
The reason why the upgrade thread has not been a sticky within the UG is that the UG is a locked thread to avoid it getting cluttered, and people do like to ask questions about upgrades and also share their experiences. That is why such a thread should really be the first text section in the sticky with a referenced/linked thread at the end of that full explanation of BA policy and the Board's experiences, ecouraging poeple to add their views into an unstickied thread which can pop up as required.
2) Issues with BA.com - a great thread which sadly does not seem to be paid a blind bit of notice by BA. If it was, it would be worth having a sticky, but again I think this can be prominently included with some text and a referenced thread, along the lines suggested above for the Upgarde thread, but with no mention in the title as it's less relevant to newcomers.
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Ultimate guide to what routes have BA's new clubworld seat
Or should this now be which routes do not feature NCW 2.0?
I was a bit confused by this this as I thought BA has flatbeds in all its planes now, and didn't understand the difference between NGCW and NCW and OCW and seats and beds and it all got a little confusing. And anyway, it seems there is no way of telling precisely which planes have what seating/bedding, so actually its really just a case of summarising the current rollout plan.
Opps gotta go.
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Back again.
This thread was great when the rollout began, but now the news is basically quite high level again. My view is it should remain as a sticky, but unlocked.
The key points are that former BMed routes still feature the OCW Cradle seat, soon to be replaced by bmi, the 767s feature the NCW 1.0 flat bed, all now have AVOD but none will ever get NCW 2.0. 50% of 747s have NCW 2.0, and none of the 777s have been started yet, and the whole lots hsould be finished (middle of next year?). What seats are going into the exEurope fleet?
Suggested title:
Will my Flight Feature BA's Latest Club World 2.0 Flat Bed
Between Prospero and Can I Help You and the other crew a good up to date sticky along these lines should be able to be developed and would be comprehensive, perhaps divided into four sections:
- thorough description of what to expect in NCW 2.0 vs previous seat/cabin, including links to trip reports
- the latest timetable for conversion
- current progress
- known issues with the seat
I think it's really important to have clear unambiguous illustrations/photo links to all the publicity shots and photos for NCW 2.0 as Seats/beds NGCW/NCW/OCW/NCW 2.0 can get very confusing.
So I think that sums it up; just two stickies are really required, with the ULTIMATE GUIDE incorporating in the first two posts sections with full info and perma-links to other threads on ba.com issues and upgrading.
Then when an issue occurs like a strike/yet more lost bags/terror attack there is now room for a third sticky as appropriate, which gives space for two more current issues than current space allows.