Forgotten BA services, products & routes
Dec 7, 2018, 1:55 pm
#76
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Assuming that by "a Manchester" you mean LHR-MAN I didn't know BA ever had Club on domestic flights until it recently. When did it get dropped?
Dec 7, 2018, 2:16 pm
#77
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Singapore with a refuelling stop in Dubai. I was about 15 at the time and my overriding memories were the excellent coffee eclairs on LHR-DXB and having guns continually pointed at us by armed police in the gate at DXB.
Dec 7, 2018, 3:00 pm
#80
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Dec 7, 2018, 3:07 pm
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Actually you’ll find that BA’s A319s were originally purchased for BHX and operated from there for several years. It’s only in the (later) days of BA Connect that it was downgraded to a 146 base.
Dec 7, 2018, 4:03 pm
#83
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it was a bit like a lego model with some dishes on a raised platform
I remember flying to Lagos at a time when BA ran a hybrid service with Nigeria Airways in WT and having these trays
Dec 7, 2018, 4:16 pm
#84
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Yes, lots of blue transparent plastic. The cups came in a variety of primary colours though.
Dec 7, 2018, 4:37 pm
#85
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I'm a bit hazy on the details but I remember when I was a sixth former at school in Scotland (late 60s) getting the ?student - ?standby - ?student standby between Heathrow and Inverness on the last flight of the day. At £6 it was a lot cheaper than the sleeper and saved a day in each direction.
Dec 7, 2018, 5:34 pm
#86
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There’s none worse than the converted, Princess!
I do recall that those pathetic little armrest ashtrays were rarely emptied, though! One solid mass of butt ends and filters! I’m sure I took one to the Galley once to empty it.
Nosmo King ruled on RAFAIR, unless you could con your way onto the Flight Deck of a C-130, when suddenly life became liveable again ... and a wonderful view too!
*cough*
I do recall that those pathetic little armrest ashtrays were rarely emptied, though! One solid mass of butt ends and filters! I’m sure I took one to the Galley once to empty it.
Nosmo King ruled on RAFAIR, unless you could con your way onto the Flight Deck of a C-130, when suddenly life became liveable again ... and a wonderful view too!
*cough*
Dec 7, 2018, 6:32 pm
#87
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Wow some memories.
I really miss miss the SOU base flights to BHX MAN NCL CDG JER. On HS748 , ATP and Dash 8 Aircraft
LGW MAN JFK flights
LGW MAN and NCL lflights
Ticket books
The Landor Livery
£30 MCOs that we’re dished out like confetti for service recovery
The timetable booklets.
£40 Funflyer Fares
Return Airpor taxes and charges to JFK of £7.0
THe BA Travel Shop in Regent Street.
I also remember the BCal adverts... there’s another one I’m sure that’s airport based and has business men going round Gatwick South Terminal on buggy’s.
I really miss miss the SOU base flights to BHX MAN NCL CDG JER. On HS748 , ATP and Dash 8 Aircraft
LGW MAN JFK flights
LGW MAN and NCL lflights
Ticket books
The Landor Livery
£30 MCOs that we’re dished out like confetti for service recovery
The timetable booklets.
£40 Funflyer Fares
Return Airpor taxes and charges to JFK of £7.0
THe BA Travel Shop in Regent Street.
I also remember the BCal adverts... there’s another one I’m sure that’s airport based and has business men going round Gatwick South Terminal on buggy’s.
Dec 7, 2018, 6:58 pm
#89
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Boiled sweets were more or less universal at one time. Sucking them helped reduce the effect of pressure changes on one's ears.
As well as the printed timetables there was for a short time a similar publication containing fares. I think that was from BEA rather than BOAC.
Liqueurs offered after the meal in both cabins. They became CE only for a time before disappearing completely
As well as the printed timetables there was for a short time a similar publication containing fares. I think that was from BEA rather than BOAC.
Liqueurs offered after the meal in both cabins. They became CE only for a time before disappearing completely
Dec 7, 2018, 9:12 pm
#90
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IIRC the tiered trays quickly went away but the blue dishware survived until 2010 or so albeit on a regular tray. I recall that when the trays were introduced BA introduced a new "ethnic style" of catering to match their new look and passengers complained that the food was too spicy/heavily seasoned etc.
I miss the colorful WT cabins as well with the pink and blue headrest covers and the matching pillows and blankets. The cabin now looks so sterile.
Also amenity kits with socks, eyeshades, and toothbrush used to be provisioned in Y.