Did BA serve hot breakfasts on short haul flights?
Jun 29, 2018, 2:48 pm
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Back in the 80's it was branded Super Shuttle and they served a very fine breakfast up to EDI. All one class usually on 757s. They had competition from BCal back then so had to make an effort. Not sure if BMI were also on the route (or even Dan Air?).
Jun 29, 2018, 2:58 pm
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Jun 29, 2018, 3:00 pm
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Even as recent as 2007 I remember having a full English on the EDI-LCY morning flight. Definitely had many full hot meals morning, noon and night on the LHR-ABZ in the 90s.
BMI had great bacon rolls. IIRC there were more like wraps or something. Can't remember exactly it was so long ago, but they were very tasty.
BMI had great bacon rolls. IIRC there were more like wraps or something. Can't remember exactly it was so long ago, but they were very tasty.
Jun 29, 2018, 3:59 pm
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I used to rather enjoy my bi-weekly full English en route to BHD, almost as much as the lemon melts and wine on the way back.
But apparently I was surveyed and was happy to pay for something better quality out of my own pocket so here we are...
(actually I thought the breakfast would have benefitted from some baked beans, but I had to settle for sneaking a sachet of ketchup onboard)
But apparently I was surveyed and was happy to pay for something better quality out of my own pocket so here we are...
(actually I thought the breakfast would have benefitted from some baked beans, but I had to settle for sneaking a sachet of ketchup onboard)
Jun 29, 2018, 4:38 pm
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Jun 29, 2018, 7:21 pm
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Back in the seventies there was a substantial cooked breakfast on morning flights from GLA to LHR. As the aircraft was a Vanguard there was always comfortable time to eat it, although flight itself was sometimes a bit bumpier than we are used to today.
Jun 30, 2018, 10:41 am
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Jun 30, 2018, 12:19 pm
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and it wasn't only breakfast flights that got a hot meal. Evening flights all had a hot meal too for years.
And you could get APEX tickets for a good price up to 2 weeks in advance. I think you had to stay away a Saturday night
And you could get APEX tickets for a good price up to 2 weeks in advance. I think you had to stay away a Saturday night
Jun 30, 2018, 2:22 pm
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When I started flying EDI-LHR back in the mid-1990s the domestic breakfast was massive.
You got the hot element with bacon, eggs, sausage, tomato, shrooms, plus a big yoghurt pot, corn flakes and jam a marmalade in glass jars, and bread rolls.
One evening flights they managed to serve a hot meal plus a separate drinks run before. Mind you they had more crew in those days.
Once the low costs started the food started shrinking - hot evening meals became salads. Then became a packet of crisps.
Only the smaller hot breakfast remaind a constant from the early 2000s till BOB came along.
You got the hot element with bacon, eggs, sausage, tomato, shrooms, plus a big yoghurt pot, corn flakes and jam a marmalade in glass jars, and bread rolls.
One evening flights they managed to serve a hot meal plus a separate drinks run before. Mind you they had more crew in those days.
Once the low costs started the food started shrinking - hot evening meals became salads. Then became a packet of crisps.
Only the smaller hot breakfast remaind a constant from the early 2000s till BOB came along.
Jun 30, 2018, 3:39 pm
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I often had the choice so would take the MAN-LGW instead of the LHR option simply because the slightly longer serving window made for a more relaxed breakfast experience. Also a 737-400 as against a max-pax 757.
I used to commute using a little airline called Gill Air and they also served a hot breakfast out of NCL to MAN. Flying time was 35 minutes but it was heavy going crossing the Pennines in a non-pressurized Shorts. After a particularly heavy flight one autumn evening I recall the stewardess walking off swearing she would never get back on 'that thing'. I think the MAN pax were given train tickets to the North East.
I used to commute using a little airline called Gill Air and they also served a hot breakfast out of NCL to MAN. Flying time was 35 minutes but it was heavy going crossing the Pennines in a non-pressurized Shorts. After a particularly heavy flight one autumn evening I recall the stewardess walking off swearing she would never get back on 'that thing'. I think the MAN pax were given train tickets to the North East.
Jul 1, 2018, 1:17 am
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If if you just walked into the airport and tried to use a “One Shot” card it cost a fortune.
Jul 1, 2018, 7:47 am
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I used to do day returns from LHR to EDI once a week in the late 80s early 90s. BA was originally pretty shocking with its Shuttle service (no service, supposedly a back up plane if the original was full but mysteriously the back up never materialised). British Midland, as it was then called, started competing on service (hot breakfast, lunch, dinner, cream tea etc.) and within months BA had added all that to the Shuttle - and dropped the back up plane. My colleagues and I were so delighted when BD started competing that we remained loyal to them until the end. And, of course, when the end came, BA cut the service.