What do you miss on BA before it was 'enhanced'?
#31
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What I haven't even started on is the levels of service on BA at the times when the cheapest economy LHR-HKG-LHR fare was the equivalent of over Ł3,000. I can guarantee you that anyone who truly remembers those times would be praising to the rafters the normal BA experience today, with all its faults.
#32
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Brighton, UK
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2009 was in the nadir after the financial crisis of 2008. BA were shedding routes and offering all sorts of incentives to retain business. Between 2007/08 and 2009/10 BA had two-for-one offers, discount codes, generous sales and all manner of other promotions. It needed to do this because the market was reluctant to travel.
Move to today and the market is markedly different. BA is expanding routes, loads and yield are high, the market in air travel is much more buoyant than it was immediately after the financial crisis. The airline market in European short haul is also even more competitive and cut throat, meaning legacy carriers have to be quite ruthless with costs (product mixes) to be competitive and survive.
Have average LCC fares (i.e. widely available/easily bookable, not some very limited supply headline loss leader) fallen, risen or remained the same on the LON-ATH route? I don't know the answer, but I'd bet it isn't fallen.
If prices have in fact risen, this will feed into the overall inflation figures.
#34
Join Date: Mar 2005
Programs: BA Bronze, Hilton Gold, IHG Gold, Marriott Gold
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Hot Breakfast in Domestic Y
Hot Evening Meal in Domestic Y (Was that just LCY?)
10 TP's / 2000 Avios minimum on SH Y
"Free" Domestic Add-ons on Redemptions
Legroom (especially CE)
Knowing that BA Crew were a "cut-above" their competitors and had T&C's to match.
Hot Evening Meal in Domestic Y (Was that just LCY?)
10 TP's / 2000 Avios minimum on SH Y
"Free" Domestic Add-ons on Redemptions
Legroom (especially CE)
Knowing that BA Crew were a "cut-above" their competitors and had T&C's to match.
#36
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: London
Programs: BA Silver Seigneur des Horaires des Mucci.
Posts: 2,047
Those wire bottle holders with all the bottles of wine when the crew would come round with top ups in CW
CE on an ATR from GCI to LGW!
Concorde
The spiral staircase on the 747 200
The open access cockpit!
(No empty middle seat in CE)!
CE on an ATR from GCI to LGW!
Concorde
The spiral staircase on the 747 200
The open access cockpit!
(No empty middle seat in CE)!
#37
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: MME (midway between NCL and LBA)
Programs: BA Gold, AF/KL Gold, Hilton Gold, Nordic Choice Gold
Posts: 742
Pricing is a really important consideration. As a student I paid Ł250 for a MAN-AMS return in 1995. This was booked a few months in advance and my return flight was 4 months later.
I know BA do not fly that route anymore but I doubt any similar fare (for a comparable booking) has been seen on this route in the past 20 years.
I know BA do not fly that route anymore but I doubt any similar fare (for a comparable booking) has been seen on this route in the past 20 years.
#39
Join Date: Mar 2012
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Pricing is a really important consideration. As a student I paid Ł250 for a MAN-AMS return in 1995. This was booked a few months in advance and my return flight was 4 months later.
I know BA do not fly that route anymore but I doubt any similar fare (for a comparable booking) has been seen on this route in the past 20 years.
I know BA do not fly that route anymore but I doubt any similar fare (for a comparable booking) has been seen on this route in the past 20 years.
When BA had regional hubs; the lounge used to be fab in MAN
#41
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#44
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Lewes
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34" pitch in CE
Hot breakfast on the shuttle.
The shuttle.
757s
Hot evening meal on the shuttle.
Watching Concorde start up from the club lounge in T4 whilst waiting for my flight to the Middle East.....
flights to the regions - Plymouth, Newquay, Guernsey particularly...
Cradle seat on day flight.
Hot breakfast on the shuttle.
The shuttle.
757s
Hot evening meal on the shuttle.
Watching Concorde start up from the club lounge in T4 whilst waiting for my flight to the Middle East.....
flights to the regions - Plymouth, Newquay, Guernsey particularly...
Cradle seat on day flight.