New release of ba.com (now partially deployed after long beta test period)
Aug 5, 2017, 10:29 am
#32
Moderator, Iberia Airlines, Airport Lounges, and Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
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Two or three days. Irksome if on a laptop, you have to keep paging down through all the big words and white open spaces, but otherwise this is the triumph of tablet computing.
Aug 5, 2017, 12:15 pm
#33
Join Date: Jun 2014
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Aug 5, 2017, 1:10 pm
#34
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Balham - Gateway to The South
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Aug 5, 2017, 1:24 pm
#35
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Aug 11, 2017, 3:21 am
#37
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club, Marriott Bonvoy
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Hasn't anyone tested this new stuff on 'normal' monitors ?
Aug 11, 2017, 4:01 am
#38
Join Date: Apr 2016
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 157
Ugh, hate this kind of layout. Big white spaces with grey text, find it genuinely difficult to scan it to find the info I'm looking for.
Opening this on my laptop, the "Your booking details" title is the *last* thing on the screen at the bottom, and of course none of the info is visible unless I scroll down.
I do software for a living, and this kind of thing drives me *crazy*. Lots of baby positive steps: it's clean, it's responsive, it's on-brand. But no basic sanity check that clicking MMB should ACTUALLY SHOW YOU THE BOOKING DETAILS. If it's any consolation to BA's IT bods, I can assure you that the web frontend people in my company are quite the same :-/
Opening this on my laptop, the "Your booking details" title is the *last* thing on the screen at the bottom, and of course none of the info is visible unless I scroll down.
I do software for a living, and this kind of thing drives me *crazy*. Lots of baby positive steps: it's clean, it's responsive, it's on-brand. But no basic sanity check that clicking MMB should ACTUALLY SHOW YOU THE BOOKING DETAILS. If it's any consolation to BA's IT bods, I can assure you that the web frontend people in my company are quite the same :-/
Aug 11, 2017, 6:40 am
#39
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Sussex
Programs: QF BAEC [Gold]
Posts: 536
I too HATE the new layout when you click thru MMB. I have a large screen laptop, and yet the amount of scrolling up and down to actually find the basic flight info is ridiculous.
Totally unnecessary areas of white space, banner ads for other BA add-ons before I can get to the basic booking details.
Definite
from me.
Totally unnecessary areas of white space, banner ads for other BA add-ons before I can get to the basic booking details.
Definite
from me.
Last edited by PWOZUK; Aug 11, 2017 at 6:41 am Reason: typo
Aug 11, 2017, 6:51 am
#41
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club
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I hate it - I think it looks cheap and as if if the intern has designed it!
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Aug 11, 2017, 6:55 am
#42
Moderator, Iberia Airlines, Airport Lounges, and Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
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He certainly gets around. I just hope he runs the redemption database for a bit, though as soon as the inaugural "why are there 9 First redemptions available to Cape Town every day in December" post arrives here, he will be shuffled off somewhere else.
Aug 11, 2017, 9:55 am
#44
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Thames Valley
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This new design is really starting to confuse me - I've now noticed that when I make a new booking, then on certain pages it uses the new design whilst on others it leaves me in the old one, so I suddenly jump from a coloured background and sensibly dense text (on a desktop) to a white background and acres of space and Big Text. It sounds like a little thing, but I find it quite jarring...
I just wish organisations online would stop treating us all as though we were 12 years old with the attention spans, concentration and ability to focus of gnats. I look forward to BA introducing a like button next to their fare quotes next
I just wish organisations online would stop treating us all as though we were 12 years old with the attention spans, concentration and ability to focus of gnats. I look forward to BA introducing a like button next to their fare quotes next
Aug 16, 2017, 3:02 am
#45
Join Date: Jun 2015
Programs: BA Gold, VS GFL
Posts: 17
Updated BA Website
Hi
I've noticed that BA has updated their website.
Is anyone else having problems?
Screen takes ages to load, drop downs stall or leave black pages and it's impossible to enter text into the dialogue boxes.
I gave up last night and booked a flight with another airline.
I've noticed that BA has updated their website.
Is anyone else having problems?
Screen takes ages to load, drop downs stall or leave black pages and it's impossible to enter text into the dialogue boxes.
I gave up last night and booked a flight with another airline.