British Airways 747 Business Class: Who designed this seat? (YouTube Video Review)
Jun 5, 2017, 1:44 am
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Well I think it is the job of a reviewer to find the faults and that is what he does. Let's be honest... no product is perfect and so if he didn't find fault he wouldn't be doing a good job. The issue for me is does he find genuine issues or is he just moaning... I thought his review of the BA J seating was pretty good.
If he did a review and just said this product is excellent all round then I for one would be highly suspicious that he was being sponsored to say that as any honest reviewer will find things to improve.
Equally, I take TRs and Bloggers with a pinch of salt as invariable their tastes are slightly different to mine and I fly often enough to make my own mind up, for those who don't then they are a useful resource, but worth viewing a few by the same blogger and try to find someone who is akin to your own taste who may not be the most popular (after all Jeremy Clarkson rated the Astra in a Sunday newspaper article in 2009)
Jun 5, 2017, 1:47 am
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Jun 5, 2017, 2:08 am
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Jun 5, 2017, 4:42 am
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Jun 5, 2017, 5:12 am
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A wonderful seat indeed and unlike others I had no problem to stand up and step over my seatmate who I hardly noticed anyway, there was enough room to get up..
Jun 5, 2017, 5:26 am
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Yes, I would agree that all aspects of a business must be commercially viable and I can see how the compromises had to be made... doesn't make it a good design though. It makes it a commercially viable design and may be a good design with the commercial constraints. Good for the company... not necessarily so good for the customer.
I guess you are looking at it from the company perspective... I am looking at it from the passenger perspective.
I guess you are looking at it from the company perspective... I am looking at it from the passenger perspective.
That would be great design -
Jun 5, 2017, 10:07 am
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Jun 5, 2017, 10:22 am
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Just landed this morning and spent the night in Club World in the 747 bubble.
Thought the seat was great, for about the second time I have been able to sleep on an overnight flight (the other time was also on BA)...
Thought the seat was great, for about the second time I have been able to sleep on an overnight flight (the other time was also on BA)...
Jun 5, 2017, 10:24 am
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Jun 5, 2017, 10:46 am
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Well he may or may not.
But either way ...... it won't stop some people finding irrational reasons to badmouth him as an individual - rather than focus on the specific issue of what he has to say about the CW seat.
We have seen similar scenarios where media coverage of the recent systems outage is concerned : reading certain posts one could be forgiven for thinking that the press - as opposed to BA - were somehow to blame for the inconvenience & general chaos suffered by the airline's passengers
Jun 5, 2017, 11:27 am
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Well he may or may not.
But either way ...... it won't stop some people finding irrational reasons to badmouth him as an individual - rather than focus on the specific issue of what he has to say about the CW seat.
We have seen similar scenarios where media coverage of the recent systems outage is concerned : reading certain posts one could be forgiven for thinking that the press - as opposed to BA - were somehow to blame for the inconvenience & general chaos suffered by the airline's passengers
Well he may or may not.
But either way ...... it won't stop some people finding irrational reasons to badmouth him as an individual - rather than focus on the specific issue of what he has to say about the CW seat.
We have seen similar scenarios where media coverage of the recent systems outage is concerned : reading certain posts one could be forgiven for thinking that the press - as opposed to BA - were somehow to blame for the inconvenience & general chaos suffered by the airline's passengers
Jun 5, 2017, 12:46 pm
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Jun 5, 2017, 12:49 pm
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Jun 5, 2017, 1:24 pm
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