Welcome back BOAC?
May 16, 2017, 11:39 am
#16
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: HPN
Posts: 352
The original BEA airport buses were built by AEC (the "Associated Equipment Company", the association having been with the Underground / LGOC Group which formed the nucleus of the original London Transport). This was long before BL got their wretched talons onto AEC.
May 16, 2017, 1:10 pm
#17
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 70
I'm not sure anyone claims your ticket class makes you a better or worse person. I think it means that some people place a higher value (and they have to be able to pay, it's true) on certain features (eg. a flat bed), whereas others would rather spend their money instead on something else.
May 16, 2017, 1:58 pm
#19
Original Poster
Join Date: Jun 2008
Programs: BA Gold, and others
Posts: 375
ryanir?
easyjet?
many others follow that model already!
May 16, 2017, 5:29 pm
#20
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Abu Dhabi
Programs: BA Gold/OWE
Posts: 531
Why stop at BOAC?
Air Outpost (1937) - YouTube
(Available on the BA IFE, you just have to dig around for it.)
Air Outpost (1937) - YouTube
(Available on the BA IFE, you just have to dig around for it.)
Some photos in my FT album here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/membe...ir-museum.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Mahatta_Fort
Last edited by sharp5flat9; May 16, 2017 at 5:34 pm
May 17, 2017, 1:26 am
#21
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Spalding
Programs: BA Bronze,Accor.Flightdiary.net/liamvad
Posts: 667
Yes,but not with the level of service that BOAC had,I flew to SYD(Boeing 707) and back(VC10)out via India,we had printed menus,food and service was fab,all one class,returned via USA in 1970,bring that all back please.
May 17, 2017, 2:02 am
#22
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: LHR/ATH
Programs: Amex Platinum, LH SEN (Gold), BA Bronze
Posts: 4,489
So, with one of the major British parties advocating re-nationalising rail, water, mail, grid and post, air has to be next.
What would you like from a gov't run British Airways?
And please keep this thread non-political! There's enough debate about the G.E. in Omni.. let's use this thread to see what we would all like from nationalised air travel!
What would you like from a gov't run British Airways?
And please keep this thread non-political! There's enough debate about the G.E. in Omni.. let's use this thread to see what we would all like from nationalised air travel!
Not so fast there!
More like a minor, collapsing British party that is about to become irrelevant!
May 17, 2017, 2:55 am
#24
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: UK
Programs: Lemonia. Best Greek ever.
Posts: 2,274
When the next Labour government has appointed Seamus Milne as Chairperson of the newly nationalised BA/EZY combination, all pax will be referred to as Comrade, and all crew will refer to each other as Sister. Pilots will clean loos, of course.
All planes will be one class, and all destinations will have BOB.
All planes will be one class, and all destinations will have BOB.
May 17, 2017, 3:02 am
#25
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA Exec Gold; Accor Le Club Gold
Posts: 122
So they were specially built? Perhaps that explains the odd 'hump-back' design to them. I guess that was to help accommodate baggage but it makes them look very odd.