Meal service on BA flights
Mar 22, 2018, 12:37 pm
#16
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: MAN/JNB
Programs: KL/BMI/BA
Posts: 412
With the price of a CW or F ticket to JNB then surely to God they can afford to (and should) over cater these cabins to ensure everyone gets their choice of meal.
What would the cost be to load an extra CW main per passenger? I cannot imagine the additional cost is very much compared to the thousands passengers are forking out for seats in premium cabins.
The crew must find this embarrassing.
What would the cost be to load an extra CW main per passenger? I cannot imagine the additional cost is very much compared to the thousands passengers are forking out for seats in premium cabins.
The crew must find this embarrassing.
Mar 22, 2018, 12:44 pm
#18
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Munich / London
Programs: BAEC Gold, M&M Frequent Flyer
Posts: 157
I have to admit that I (Gold) usually get asked about my first choice regardless whether I am in WTP or Club. I had an operational upgrade to Club a while back and was in the last row of Club. I fully expected to be given whatever was left (and would have been ok with that given I paid for WTP), but CC came to ask for my choice, then quietly asked whether I was travelling with the person next to me. I declined and noticed later that he wasn't given any choice, it was a case of 'sorry, we're out of beef, here's the chicken...
Maybe I'm just lucky.
Maybe I'm just lucky.
Mar 23, 2018, 1:29 am
#19
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Perth WA/ UK
Programs: BA Gold, Priority Club Gold, Accor Silver, Virgin Australia Gold
Posts: 1,763
You have now been successfully goaded into the trap that it is the norm that many people don't get their first choice. And you have accepted it!
On EK, whether travelling in J or F, I have NEVER not been given my first choice. As a blue, silver or gold member. I am not suggesting that it wont happen, I am sure that they at times run out of a choice. But either EK have a better algorithm to guess what their passengers might want to eat, or they just over-cater a bit and rather have some wastage than having to sell 'not available' to a significant number of people.
(Looking forward to the barrage of responses from BA apologists....)
On EK, whether travelling in J or F, I have NEVER not been given my first choice. As a blue, silver or gold member. I am not suggesting that it wont happen, I am sure that they at times run out of a choice. But either EK have a better algorithm to guess what their passengers might want to eat, or they just over-cater a bit and rather have some wastage than having to sell 'not available' to a significant number of people.
(Looking forward to the barrage of responses from BA apologists....)