they paved the route for Vueling to take over all the LHR-BCN at times when the J feeders are not needed

BA's onslaught against its customers will contine unabated. Those people moaning about BoB have to realise that they are not the demographic BA are targetting anymore. Any business you give them is a bonus.

RESULT :D

I am astonished to hear that iWife could be booked into Y. Some mistake made by her booking agent? ;)

The cost to passengers of BoB food and drink bears no relation to the cost to BA of offering it. Just in the same way the cost of a flight ticket doesn't bear any relation to the cost to BA of you being on that flight. It's market economics at work - BA will charge the most they can possibly get away with for a particular product (some of which may make a loss).

Therefore the costs of BoB will be based on how much similar items cost on EasyJet, for example - and I assume market research - on how much people are prepared to pay for items before they reach a point where they stop buying at all.

One thing I am worried about is ba.com doesn't mention that free cups or plastic glasses are provided with the drinks. I don't want to be mixing my G&T in my mouth on the way down, minature of gin in one hand and can of tonic in the other :p

All the alcohol served in flight is held in a 3rd bonded warehouse and exempt from UK duty which is 37.5% for spirits at the moment I think although this varies dependant on the spirit and other alcohol type.

The enhancement would be real for me if I could buy a sandwich however taking away free drinks, hot, cold let alone alcoholic exposes it purely as a cost saving exercise for BA and an add on cost for regular travellers.

:D :D

It's a quick hop to LGW to get an EI to DUB before launching west with AA. Seemed silly to waste money on paid CE for 35-45 minutes. So, we now have 1,000 each to add to the 750 each we will get by flying S fares for half an hour or so.

Please excuse this temporary aberration. :cool:

We haven't heard whether the "booking agent" made another mistake and booked himself into J :D

Though I now only have one Y class booking flight left on BA s/h I too will be doing this.

I'll bet all the retailers in T5 must be planning their sales campaign already... to encourage passengers to BBYF (buy before you fly) rather than BoB!

Probably discussed earlier but just came across it.

Comedy: "Are you contacting us about Short Haul Buy on Board Catering? Yes/No"

Is now one of the default options for the complaints forms!

Tick yes and it goes straight to delete.

hahaha ... worked for both of us. :D

And, yes, Flyingturkey, that was highlighted sever million posts ago, but not surprising you missed it. ;)

I sent off the same short message from both my wife and myself and got exactly the same response as Uncle T. Wwell, it was about 1000 words long and I didn't bother to read it, except for the words "As a gesture, please accept 1,000 Avios."

Guys the only way this will 'hurt' BA profitability is if as many people as possible stop flying them ! Like a boycott.

Action, not words. BA has already made their decision and will not change it. If they suddenly see a drop in passengers and wonder why, it will be obvious.

If passenger numbers don't get worse, then BA will be laughing all the way to the bank!

Have just experienced a BoB flight on AB. Seemingly no takers judging by the time it took to wheel the trolley aft and forwards. That gave the cabin crew (2 of them in the front galley area) plenty of time to chat behind closed curtains for the majority of the flight time. Doc Copper.