Calum

I've only been to BKK twice but I really like the KUL connection, plenty of flights if you misconnect and it's on the 789.

Only issue with it is some people refuse to fly MH (including my entire family)

Bronze

What I ended up doing was booking BKK-DXB-LHR with Qantas Flight numbers, on Emirates metal for the BKK-DXB-BKK sectors. I am crediting to my BAEC for this.

My last 2 trips to UK were BKK-HKG CX, then HKG-LHR BA but all booked on the BA website. Now that CX has dropped F from most of the BKK-HKG flights, I can no longer book this with BA.

For clarity.... I do not like the Club World layout. I would never pay to fly in that cabin. I think their First Class is relatively good value in comparison. I'd rather Qanta business suite from BKK/SIN-SYD than Club World. However.... I generally fly Emirates as I get an A380 in F all the way home.

DYKWIA

Sorry, could we please get back on topic with some people behaving badly?

wrp96

I thought this was your personal thread.

Fitch

We're not alone - thin pickings across the whole of FT

Has everyone made a resolution to be sweet in '17 ?

Calchas

That happens everywhere else on the BA forum, can't we have one nice thread where we talk about different connection options?

LadyB

Quote:
Originally Posted by chance88088
VLG and VLF decide they need to listen to some music, which they play on his phone for the whole cabin to enjoy.

We had pretty much the same thing, not on a BA flight but on our QR flight KUL-DOH yesterday, which departed at 02.05. Aircraft was a 787, J cabin & we're in the middle seats of row 2.

Family of 3 board; Dad, Mum and their small daughter, aged maybe 2. My heart sank when I realised their daughter was sitting in front of me as she'd been pretty lively in the check in queue and at the boarding gate. I need not have worried, she slept for the entire flight but Dad, who was in 1A, thought that the cabin would enjoy his music played loudly off his phone. Once the cabin settled down, it did stop and for several hours the cabin was peaceful. As almost all the cabin, which was full, woke & breakfast was served, Dad decided it was time we all heard his music again. At this point, I spoke to the Cabin director who told me he'd spoken to Dad before, that it wasn't acceptable and straight away, he spoke to Dad again & suggested he either used headphone or turned it off. The music was turned off but within half an hour he had what sounded like a phone call on loudspeaker (can people have phone calls whilst airborne?).

I was very tempted to speak to Mum to thank her for getting their child to sleep so quickly but did she realise she was married to an inconsiderate arse? I managed to resist the temptation.

Later that day in HEL for our BA flight to LHR, we boarded the bus taking us to the aircraft, it was -5 and the bus was pretty full but as the doors were still open, more passengers were getting on. There was a bit of jostling and someone commented that there were empty seats, one lady refused to move to a seat 'because of my luggage' so the people standing rammed in by the door were huffing a bit. A chap then pipes up with 'I thought this bus was for Executive Club members, not economy class people'.

Worcester

Listing to music in a public place without headphones is something which you'd expect from thoughtless teenagers who had not learned empathy, not adults.

T8191

One would think they would have to walk

Nice one, LadyB ... we're back on track

wemyss

Tempted with the EDI-LHR-KUL Business and First flights pricing, with MH in Autumn (including the A380 if they still have them)...

YClass

On a flight DXB-LHR last week a lady is put in 1A huffing and puffing. Making a point of being annoyed having been moved seats and particularly that she wasn't told until on the plane and had already been moved before I think.

Now I understand being a bit annoyed with being moved around, fair enough. But at least its 1A. But then came the "my husband flies a lot with BA and would never stand for this". And then the crew and the CSD came several times before the flight, during the flight and after landing to explain, apologise and insist a note was made and Customer Services would be in touch.

Bizarre why A) she cared so much and B) crew cared so much throughout the flight. Maybe her husband is a Prem or something, who knows, but all seemed excessive. Not a great flight in general - average crew in F and another obnoxious passenger slamming the bubbly.

jwhite9185

I admit to myself being a little DYKWIA on this one, but in fairness I was outdone quite spectacularly.

Getting ready to fly home from MAD the other night, I arrive from the lounge and unsurprisingly there was already a queue a mile long. I assumed that not everyone would be Gold/CE so I wandered along and lingered towards the front of the queue. Upon passing, I noticed the couple at the very front of the queue were clutching their passports, BP's and a Bronze card each.

When boarding came, the announcement was first made in Spanish so I moved forward and by the time I reached the queue it had been made in English, asking for CE/Gold - fair enough, the two at the front are both Bronze. They weren't happy though, as one announced quite loudly at "How rude some people could be" and that they had waited there for 30 minutes and I'd just waltzed up.... However they were interrupted by a rather loud American guy who then pushed past me, holding boarding pass aloft saying even louder "I AM A PLATINUM, THATS ONEWORLD SAPPHIRE".

Now I've never normally seen ground staff enforce priority boarding all that strictly, and the one time I was praying for it to be done just so this guy would be sent back and I could give him a smug look as I walked past him, it still wasn't enforced unfortunately. And off he went down the jet bridge...

FlyingFinn

Gate lice

ChampagneSocialist

As a not quite twice a month BKK regular, I have to add that (adding to your point about saturation) TG operates *2* daily flights, the IMO better timed red eye flight being on 77W, kitted to same standard of hard/soft product as the A380 day flight. The timings/aircraft switch round when going in the reverse direction BKK-LHR.

There is of course also the BR (EVA) flight within 10 min of the TG night flight .

Fwiw I'm going BA LHR-BKK for the first time, in WTP, as company policy no longer allows me to travel TG J The BA flights has nice timings for connecting onto the QR BKK-HAN if on separate tickets.!

techie

Can we not skew off again to the topic of timings of flights that have nothing to do with the topic of this thread? It dilutes my enjoyment of stories of muppets misbehaving themselves.