And even if someone did try to take the sandwich from yours hands it would most likely count as assault.

A salt and peppery to be exact.

bmi seem to be making a ham of this and getting into a pickle as a result.

(Sorry)

The whole business is even more crazy when the crew announced on Tuesday that because of a full flight they wouldn't be able to take orders from everyone. The fact that this happened would make it very difficult for the crew to forbid you eating your own food.

Well, the obvious way to fix this would be to run the planes with fewer crew...

It'll even itself out soon, of course, when they find themselves with fewer pax...

So they can't even deliver the very limited service they promise? I know it is early days, but the likes of easyjet and IB do manage to get around the plane in time. If BD cannot do this then they need more staff on board.

I dont know about IB, but it figures regarding EZ & FR - their young Latvian & Irish staff are worked to the bone - how's BMI going to get their unionised & set-in-their-ways staff to do the same?

Probably BMI will back off making them work as productively as their new LCC rivals - hence it won't be able to compete.

Course they'll never dare give that as a reason for failure, maybe just a 'staff productivity did not meet expecations, but we anticipate improvements next quarter'.

To be honest, I've seen OS manage to serve a full A321 cabin with minimum crew in very little time, and that includes the free water/tea/coffee/chocolate that supplements the (actually quite tasty) paid food.

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)!