I guess the others will follow suit.

And if you have status, you still get quick check in, fast track, lounge, priority boarding and so on.

For joe public without ffp I'm not sure why BA is better any more really. You have a leather seat, slightly better airports (TXL instead of SXF).

I certainly will be looking harder at LH now.

That was in response to me :D

It's a corker, isn't it?

I wonder if there will be any change to the drinks offered. I'd be pretty unhappy with the quality of existing coffee and wine offerings if I'd just paid good money for them.

...customer research, which highlighted dissatisfaction around our current catering offering

And free M&S food would be an upgrade.

With apologies for this being a bit of a repeat posting, but here are the shop prices (or LGW airport prices to be more precise) for some M&S items:

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/p7qirh.jpg

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/H9uSFZ.jpg

The uplift - if any - seems quite modest, maybe 50 pence at most. At this stage of the game at any rate.

The uplift on drinks, on the other hand, seems higher. I'm an expert only on sparkling water at airports, and 500 mls is available for under £1 (Pret, Starbucks) and around £1.35 at WH Smith, though it can be higher in some branches. So £1.80 seems a bit stiff to me.

Yeah, outstanding response. The contempt the airline has (not blaming their twitter staff, who I feel sorry for) for customers is impressive.

The headline prices are pretty much exactly the same as on EasyJet, although EasyJet do multibuy deals and it looks as though BA aren't going to.

The prices are about what I expected to see. I still think it is a very risky strategy for Marks and Spencer though...

ETA: Just noticed that they will not accept cash as a payment method, only cards or Avios. So the service is actually worse than on the LCCs, who accept cash in just about any currency you want to throw in their general direction.

I think I'm just trolling your coat tails on Twitter

As long as you can bear the sickening colors of the furniture there :) The lounges in T2 always make me feel noxious... (still, better than the massive open space that is the lounge in T1).

And when I try to load it....


http://i.imgur.com/jmIqX5o.jpg

haaa!!

Let alone people buying full fare F/J tickets with domestic add ons

I see no mention of fever tree tonic in the drinks list. So that's put to bed me buying a G&T.

Other than "British" in the name (and perhaps scratchards) the upgrade from BA ET to U2/FR standards is now complete. Pax will still pay over the odds for the name so full marks to management for extracting dividends from the brand.

Virgin Trains on the east coast have conveniently just re-launched an earlier offer from Edinburgh (and Aberdeen line stations) to London for flat fare advances... :D Quite timely really!

https://www.virgintrainseastcoast.co.../plane-relief/

Personally I've been taking short haul flying away from BA and this is probably going to reduce it to nearly nil even in Club Europe I expect.

Almost as good a response as "Previously the catering provided was complementary, the cost of which wasn't included in the fare"

Do they seriously expect us to believe that they didn't factor in the cost of catering to their prices and that it was being provided as a bonus at a cost which they were absorbing out of the goodness of their hearts?