Globaliser

OT, but precisely so: Bucharest Otopeni airport, the glamorous headquarters of TAROM - although the airport has now been given an official name of a notable person.

FlyerTalker39574

clarkeysntfc

Out of interest, how do they not have their act together now?

corporate-wage-slave

Though I know these analogies are best avoided, in this case the theatre one works well for BA: most large theatres that I know have a range of prices, the higher the ticket, the better the view. Usually the cheaper tickets, with the worse views, sell first, and at some point, if you are on a late booking then you may have to pay through the nose, but you may get the royal box with a great view of the production. Now I tend to book late, so my fare would typically be higher than most, but I still generally get a good seat. I don't (like I do on AA) go through the annoyance of paying top dollar for a crummy seat.

BA can either look after the 25% of its passengers who haven't flown in the last 2 years, or it can look after the 39% of passengers who have flown BA 5 or more times in the last 2 years. I'm glad BA sees it through that perspective.

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Cap'n Benj

If anyone needs a new seat its VS, bar the aisle access from all seats, its inferior in pretty much every way to the CW seat.

If they can keep the lounge as it is with all the DL flights too AND get a seat like the new Delta one (not the crummy ancient 767 one), they would truly be the best option across the Atlantic. Just need more frequency.

Great_circle

So? You don't feel any difference (once airborne anyway) and have the most privacy you can imagine once the divider comes up.

That sounds like a good thing when you try to sleep.

Lucanesque

You sum it up most excellently, Pucci, that last point in particular, part of the reason why I keep flying the flag - much better to deal with issues as and when they arise. Maybe it's a British thing, or maybe I'm just one of those chaps that hates to cause a fuss, but it took me years to realise that pushing the call button didn't mark you out as a pain in the posterior, and that in fact that was how to get some assistance from the crew, and I don't think I've ever felt really hard done by coming off a BA flight as a result.

1P

This particular someone happens to fly 125,000+ miles a year back and forth across the Atlantic, nearly all of it business related and none of it on BA. I also fly BA a number of each times a year, within Europe only. They invariably treat me in a way that makes me wish I hadn't, though the lure of intra-Europe nonstop flights makes me come back to be abused again and again. Far from smug, I seriously lament that the "world's favourite airline" is so far from being that that I simply cannot fly it longhaul. The differences in booking, price and service compared with US, Canadian and Australasian airlines are too great. Just don't accuse me of being a once-a-year holidaymaker.

1P

Alas, Pucci, that statement simply isn't true. US carriers have pursers in charge at the very least, and even full-blown CSDs if you are lucky. But you are right that it is the quality of the Purser or CSD that will determine whether you get a good crew or a lousy one. That's true for all airlines.

Globaliser

Then your post would seem to fall into the category of "posting about BA although never flying BA", seeing as the topic is Club World.

Andriyko

They do, but it is only a title. Pursers on U.S.-based airlines have no management authority over any of the other flight attendants (can't give them instructions, decide where their work, etc.). It's different from European-based airlines..

flyingmonkie

One of the best things I have learned from FT is the "make a loop with the wire from the IFE controller" hack. I've worn glasses since I was six (now thirty two) although much better post laser so only a -2 rather than a -14 so I get the pain and the very real fear about being separated from a thing that keeps you safe. No glasses box is a real issue but making the loop and hanging the old boys on it does sort it,

PUCCI GALORE

My statement was regarding US Carrier AA. None else. The Purser has no authority to tell the other members what to do, and I know not of any CSDs with them. Unless this has changed in the past few weeks, that was the case. Why do you think that there are all these threads about drinks not being served before take-off? There is no one to whom you can address any such issues. As I say, unless this has changed extremely recently, then this is certainly the case with American Airlines

PUCCI GALORE

You beat me to it - they are paid a little more and they do the paperwork.