'First' post in a while
Aug 17, 2017, 3:08 pm
#16
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I have to disagree on this. The first wing is far better for access to both GF and CCR. Fast Track is hit and miss, I've found the First Wing to be only good ^
Aug 17, 2017, 3:29 pm
#17
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Aug 17, 2017, 5:43 pm
#19
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4. Kosher meals are the same as always, avoid the breakfast (land or air) like the plague, surely ba/hermolis can do better! Virgin's kosher food however is always bang on especially their clubhouse menu.
Aug 17, 2017, 6:33 pm
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BAEC Gold, and the First Wing, were worth their weight in ... Au
Aug 18, 2017, 1:12 am
#22
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I stupidly missed the chance to try the F Wing not long ago. Had the choice of either outbound or return leg in F and opted for the return on the basis that I thought I would be pretty wiped out by my trip and appreciate the comfort.
Big miscalculation. I was indeed wiped out. But in fact so wiped out that I could have slept in Y quite frankly. So a J seat would have been fine. I fell asleep upright before my dessert even arrived and then woke up and stumbled to washroom while I got a turn down.
Would have been much better using it going out. Frankly don't know what IU was thinking. Oh well.
Big miscalculation. I was indeed wiped out. But in fact so wiped out that I could have slept in Y quite frankly. So a J seat would have been fine. I fell asleep upright before my dessert even arrived and then woke up and stumbled to washroom while I got a turn down.
Would have been much better using it going out. Frankly don't know what IU was thinking. Oh well.
Aug 18, 2017, 2:49 am
#23
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The BA Club kosher evening meal is amazing. The old kosher breakfast was good. At least you don't need Borenstein kosher meals from the US.,The meals are fit only for animals...
Aug 18, 2017, 5:57 am
#24
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Totally untrainable, actually. Maybe I need to send him to Mrs Hiddy for a while. 
We are chalk and cheese. If Mr H complains about something, you know it is really, really bad.
He doesn't care which seat he occupies on board an aircraft.
He prefers to get some exercise at an airport rather than sitting in a lounge.
He has high status on multiple airlines but wouldn't even have joined the FFPs if I hadn't enrolled him, and he is not interested in miles, TPs, avios, platinum, gold, medallions or frecces. He wouldn't know how to book a redemption, and he doesn't know what benefits he gets with any of them. His cards are in a heap in a drawer.
He is quite happy to board a flight as the doors are closing, and if he drinks alcohol at all, it will be one glass of red wine with dinner on a long haul.
He doesn't care which airline he flies except that he doesn't like BA. He only flies BA when I book it for personal travel. For work travel, not only does he not fly BA himself, but he put it on the no-fly list for everyone else.
So the day his BA flight from LHR was delayed and he went into the Galleries lounge, he was absolutely appalled to discover that his food options were revolting sandwiches that were also stale, and one kind of stale cake. This is the first time in his life that Mr H met a cake he didn't like! It had to have been disgusting.
But he noticed the lack of flowers - I don't think he cared very much, but he noticed.
We are chalk and cheese. If Mr H complains about something, you know it is really, really bad.
He doesn't care which seat he occupies on board an aircraft.
He prefers to get some exercise at an airport rather than sitting in a lounge.
He has high status on multiple airlines but wouldn't even have joined the FFPs if I hadn't enrolled him, and he is not interested in miles, TPs, avios, platinum, gold, medallions or frecces. He wouldn't know how to book a redemption, and he doesn't know what benefits he gets with any of them. His cards are in a heap in a drawer.
He is quite happy to board a flight as the doors are closing, and if he drinks alcohol at all, it will be one glass of red wine with dinner on a long haul.
He doesn't care which airline he flies except that he doesn't like BA. He only flies BA when I book it for personal travel. For work travel, not only does he not fly BA himself, but he put it on the no-fly list for everyone else.
So the day his BA flight from LHR was delayed and he went into the Galleries lounge, he was absolutely appalled to discover that his food options were revolting sandwiches that were also stale, and one kind of stale cake. This is the first time in his life that Mr H met a cake he didn't like! It had to have been disgusting.
But he noticed the lack of flowers - I don't think he cared very much, but he noticed.
Aug 18, 2017, 6:05 am
#25
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If Mr H complains about something, you know it is really, really bad.
He doesn't care which seat he occupies on board an aircraft.
He prefers to get some exercise at an airport rather than sitting in a lounge.
He has high status on multiple airlines but wouldn't even have joined the FFPs if I hadn't enrolled him, and he is not interested in miles, TPs, avios, platinum, gold, medallions or frecces. He wouldn't know how to book a redemption, and he doesn't know what benefits he gets with any of them. His cards are in a heap in a drawer.
He is quite happy to board a flight as the doors are closing, and if he drinks alcohol at all, it will be one glass of red wine with dinner on a long haul.
He doesn't care which airline he flies except that he doesn't like BA. He only flies BA when I book it for personal travel. For work travel, not only does he not fly BA himself, but he put it on the no-fly list for everyone else.
So the day his BA flight from LHR was delayed and he went into the Galleries lounge, he was absolutely appalled to discover that his food options were revolting sandwiches that were also stale, and one kind of stale cake. This is the first time in his life that Mr H met a cake he didn't like! It had to have been disgusting.
But he noticed the lack of flowers - I don't think he cared very much, but he noticed.
He doesn't care which seat he occupies on board an aircraft.
He prefers to get some exercise at an airport rather than sitting in a lounge.
He has high status on multiple airlines but wouldn't even have joined the FFPs if I hadn't enrolled him, and he is not interested in miles, TPs, avios, platinum, gold, medallions or frecces. He wouldn't know how to book a redemption, and he doesn't know what benefits he gets with any of them. His cards are in a heap in a drawer.
He is quite happy to board a flight as the doors are closing, and if he drinks alcohol at all, it will be one glass of red wine with dinner on a long haul.
He doesn't care which airline he flies except that he doesn't like BA. He only flies BA when I book it for personal travel. For work travel, not only does he not fly BA himself, but he put it on the no-fly list for everyone else.
So the day his BA flight from LHR was delayed and he went into the Galleries lounge, he was absolutely appalled to discover that his food options were revolting sandwiches that were also stale, and one kind of stale cake. This is the first time in his life that Mr H met a cake he didn't like! It had to have been disgusting.
But he noticed the lack of flowers - I don't think he cared very much, but he noticed.
Aug 18, 2017, 7:38 am
#26
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I will be travelling alone so no issue with that. Have an overnight at LHR on the way out as I don't want to miss my flight the next morning - it's winter and if one flight in the entire network is cancelled it will be the MAN one, so decided to come to London the day before. This means I can try out the First Wing, although it doesn't sound that exciting.
I seriously cannot believe that they haven't sorted out the showers - they were disgusting 3 years ago!
I will be travelling alone so no issue with that. Have an overnight at LHR on the way out as I don't want to miss my flight the next morning - it's winter and if one flight in the entire network is cancelled it will be the MAN one, so decided to come to London the day before. This means I can try out the First Wing, although it doesn't sound that exciting.
I seriously cannot believe that they haven't sorted out the showers - they were disgusting 3 years ago!
*including emptying and repacking my bag plus removing and putting back on my boots.
Aug 18, 2017, 8:40 am
#27
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I see two problems.
Firstly, Hiddy will insist on telling Mr H how wonderful BA is, and if he doesn't like it Mr H is a Moaning Minnie. The bromance will be over when Mr H gives Hiddy the Mr H death stare!
Secondly, the two of them will never go anywhere without Mrs Hiddy and I to sort them out.
Firstly, Hiddy will insist on telling Mr H how wonderful BA is, and if he doesn't like it Mr H is a Moaning Minnie. The bromance will be over when Mr H gives Hiddy the Mr H death stare!
Secondly, the two of them will never go anywhere without Mrs Hiddy and I to sort them out.
Aug 18, 2017, 8:41 am
#28
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Aug 18, 2017, 11:34 am
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