New Club World (Genuinely something new)
#872
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: london and amsterdam
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 286
I was just guessing to be honest but I’m probably on the money huh
#873
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: NYC
Programs: BA Silver; SPG Gold; UA; DL; AA
Posts: 207
And this is also what they've done with every previous generation. Anyone remember those lovely 757s with 90s CW flying to EBB just a couple years ago? Fun times...
What a long, strange product roll-out it's been...
What a long, strange product roll-out it's been...
#875
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 8,721
Edit: Oh you mean 767s. It’s been quite a while since the 757s.
#877
Join Date: Jan 2019
Programs: BA Exec Club
Posts: 932
the runway girl network has an article that goes more in-depth into the new super diamond seats with doors, if that is what the new club world is based on then this is a VAST improvement. Although multiple sources have confirmed it is. so fingers crossed.
#879
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold, A3 *Gold
Posts: 887
#880
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 34
Thanks for all the links posted and sent.
some interesting concepts there.
guess we’re in countdown mode now.
some interesting concepts there.
guess we’re in countdown mode now.
#881
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: Belfast
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 379
I’m sure those in the know are already aware of this, however for the rest like me; Alex Cruz in an interview with Flight Global said they’ll hopefully be releasing details on New Club World in a few weeks.
60 seconds into this youtube video
60 seconds into this youtube video
#882
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: London
Programs: BA
Posts: 45
What seat is that shown at 15s in the YouTube interview? Looks different to current products??
#884
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: London
Programs: BA
Posts: 45
I see- thanks. Quite different from 744 F. Seems like the new J will need to come pretty close to this to meet expectations.
#885
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 7,168
At today's forum for colleagues, Alex spent some time talking about the new Club seat. No picture was shared, the name of the supplier wasn't revealed, so nothing exciting (apologies for those who've seen this thread back up and thought "Hurrah!"), but he did a couple of interesting points that are perhaps worth sharing here:
- He fully expects NPS for Club to decline once the seat is announced, due to the disappointment of customers who expect to find it there but in fact don't. He mentioned United with its Polaris roll-out as an example
- He said it's going to take a good 5 years for the seat to be fully rolled out to all the applicable fleets (and in fact it marries up with the plans I've seen).
- Part of the reason for it is that it takes time to design the installation - even once you've done a fleet, the others are different - then time to install it but, more importantly, time to manufacture the seat itself. He asked the audience how many seats Supplier X can produce per day, and the answer he gave was three. To me it sounds quite staggering, if it takes 3 days to do a seat then an A380 ship-set would take a month, and that's assuming they work weekends!
- An announcement should be made in March / April, so pretty soon.