Club Europe to be introduced on UK domestic flights [launches 01 April 2017]
Reading through the capital markets day presentation - I realise there's a separate thread, but perhaps this warrants its own.
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This is an improvement especially with BoB coming.
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Originally Posted by Calchas
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This is an improvement especially with BoB coming.
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Obvious move - now that CE seating allocation is flexible (i.e. move the curtain) it's easy to do, and with the changes to TP earning already made and BoB coming for Y, there are sufficient 'differentiating' factors to push CE more widely and introduce it for the domestic market |
Exactly!
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CE is barely credible for a 2 to 3 hour flight around Europe, never mind a 45 hop to MAN or LBA. I can only see it being filled with LH J/F passengers on a domestic connection.
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Does that, in turn, spell the end for the "Business UK" benefits (lounge / fast track access) on full fare Y?
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Originally Posted by raikje
(Post 27435105)
Does that, in turn, spell the end for the "Business UK" benefits (lounge / fast track access) on full fare Y?
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Even better if they called it Domestic First:
Then my wife could have booked in advance her seat Scotland - LHR, on a connection to DEL in F, for free Instead, the seat genies gave her the middle seat in row 28 in a 767 - which she changed at T-24 for a window seat in row 29. To be frank, she preferred the Priority Pass lounge in T3 to the (very rude staff) in the BA F lounge there when we went to DEN earlier this year, and is quite happy with the PP lounge in T5. She finds the lack of advance seat reservation on an F ticket for a domestic flight really annoying and would prefer advance seat booking to CCR access! (which maybe shows how little she values that, since paying for a seat would cost her under a tenner!) |
Will be interesting to see what the fare will be and the tier points etc
Champagne to GLA! - longer flight that CDG or AMS I believe. |
I suspect some interesting TP runs for the domestic market will start to proliferate on this forum...
I'm almost thinking that with CE on domestic and for 80 TPs (if they follow regular CE TP earning), my "quickest" way to LHR for the start of a long-haul could be LCY-GLA-LHR or something...beats two hours sitting in London traffic or paying through the nose to stand by the loo on the HEX! |
Originally Posted by ratypus
(Post 27435132)
I suspect some interesting TP runs for the domestic market will start to proliferate on this forum...
I'm almost thinking that with CE on domestic and for 80 TPs (if they follow regular CE TP earning), my "quickest" way to LHR for the start of a long-haul could be LCY-GLA-LHR or something...beats two hours sitting in London traffic or paying through the nose to stand by the loo on the HEX! |
It does explain why they recently realigned the CE fares to use I class (not J) on domestic.
Originally Posted by raikje
(Post 27435105)
Does that, in turn, spell the end for the "Business UK" benefits (lounge / fast track access) on full fare Y?
Originally Posted by kanderson1965
(Post 27435103)
CE is barely credible for a 2 to 3 hour flight around Europe, never mind a 45 hop to MAN or LBA. I can only see it being filled with LH J/F passengers on a domestic connection.
Originally Posted by ratypus
(Post 27435132)
I suspect some interesting TP runs for the domestic market will start to proliferate on this forum...
I'm almost thinking that with CE on domestic and for 80 TPs (if they follow regular CE TP earning), my "quickest" way to LHR for the start of a long-haul could be LCY-GLA-LHR or something...beats two hours sitting in London traffic or paying through the nose to stand by the loo on the HEX! |
too much to hope for a genuine enhancement then....;-)
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Originally Posted by raikje
(Post 27435105)
Does that, in turn, spell the end for the "Business UK" benefits (lounge / fast track access) on full fare Y?
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