Tracking New WT+ (World Traveller Plus)
Aug 25, 2014, 1:55 pm
#271
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: UK
Programs: Hilton Gold, IHG Platinum Ambassador, Carlson Gold, British Airways Executive Club
Posts: 156
World traveller plus. Plastic cutlery and poor food
I travelled WT+ last week from LAS to LGW. Plastic cutlery/plastic plates etc and food that was definitely not from the club world section. Complained to the cabin staff who apologised saying that they had been let down by the catering department. Email sent to BA today. If BA advertise a premier product on their website they must deliver.
Aug 27, 2014, 12:51 am
#273
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA Gold, SQ Gold, KQ Platinum, IHG Diamond Ambassador, Hilton Gold, Marriott Silver, Accor Silver
Posts: 16,348
Sep 2, 2014, 3:06 pm
#277
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA Gold, SQ Gold, KQ Platinum, IHG Diamond Ambassador, Hilton Gold, Marriott Silver, Accor Silver
Posts: 16,348
Soft product is the same, as is leg room, seat width and seat recline. Some report that the new seats are more comfortable, and the new seats will also have the latest Thales AVOD system.
Sep 4, 2014, 2:45 pm
#278
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: PHL, NYC
Programs: AA PLT, DL SLV, UA SLV, MR LTT, HH DIA
Posts: 10,065
i was looking forward to flying new WT+ on a 777-300ER on a recent MIA-LHR leg. A day or two before the flight, the seat map changed and timetables updated to show a swap back to a 747-400. Not the end of the world, but definitely not new WT+. I was also able to secure 28A (exit row) when I checked in with an AA Agent in my originating city 3 hours before the MIA departure.
I hit the gate about 35 minutes before departure and proceeded to the priority boarding lane. The scanner gave a big red light/BEEEP. Agent told me to go see the counter. Turns out that equipment swap caused all sorts of seating snafus so they handed me a CW boarding pass. Not bad for my first flight on BA in about 20 years. I'm guessing my OW Ruby(by way of US) helped a little, and there weren't likely many higher OW tiers ahead of me. I was also traveling solo.
I tried to upgrade my return flight LHR-JFK on a 777 from standard WT to WT+. On the phone they said to do it at the airport. At MMB, it was not available. At the gate in LHR, they said they can't do it there and I would have had to do it back at the connections desk(?!) after I arrived from my initial flight. By then the flight was fully oversold, and they already bumped people up. But my lucky number did not come up for the op-upgrade this time.
Overall, still, the BA experience was decent save for the overly warm cabin on the LHR-JFK flight.
I hit the gate about 35 minutes before departure and proceeded to the priority boarding lane. The scanner gave a big red light/BEEEP. Agent told me to go see the counter. Turns out that equipment swap caused all sorts of seating snafus so they handed me a CW boarding pass. Not bad for my first flight on BA in about 20 years. I'm guessing my OW Ruby(by way of US) helped a little, and there weren't likely many higher OW tiers ahead of me. I was also traveling solo.
I tried to upgrade my return flight LHR-JFK on a 777 from standard WT to WT+. On the phone they said to do it at the airport. At MMB, it was not available. At the gate in LHR, they said they can't do it there and I would have had to do it back at the connections desk(?!) after I arrived from my initial flight. By then the flight was fully oversold, and they already bumped people up. But my lucky number did not come up for the op-upgrade this time.
Overall, still, the BA experience was decent save for the overly warm cabin on the LHR-JFK flight.
Sep 4, 2014, 3:43 pm
#279
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Glasgow
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 96
I do enjoy the Thales system but I'm sure I'll cope with going back to the smaller screen.
Oct 8, 2014, 8:58 am
#280
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: London
Programs: BA GGL
Posts: 1,405
777 with 32W
Hi, currently MMB shows 32 WTP seats for my 777 LHR flight to DXB in January. If I am interpreting the "BA source" website correctly then it appears that it's only the G-Yxxx aircraft that have 32 WTP seats and that all of these therefore have OLD (like, really old) WTP seats.
Am I right?
If so, a bit of a disappointment. I suppose that 3 months out they don't really know what plane they'll be using, but still.
I sat in old WTP on CIVX over to JFK in May. It wasn't so bad, but I'd have like to have experienced the difference.
PS on the way back I'm on a 30W 744, which also looks like OLD seating. Bummer.
Am I right?
If so, a bit of a disappointment. I suppose that 3 months out they don't really know what plane they'll be using, but still.
I sat in old WTP on CIVX over to JFK in May. It wasn't so bad, but I'd have like to have experienced the difference.
PS on the way back I'm on a 30W 744, which also looks like OLD seating. Bummer.
Last edited by snuffi; Oct 8, 2014 at 9:07 am
Oct 8, 2014, 9:23 am
#281
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Vancouver Island
Posts: 318
Looks like I'll have the option to either book on the 747 from YVR or the 787 from YYC. Is the WTP product $330 better on the 787 that it's worth flying out of YYC? Only other difference is the flight is 45 min shorter (that I may want to try and sleep that extra 45 min). Sorry if this isn't the right place for this. I tried searching, but 787 isn't a valid search term on FT.