Leeds Bradford has group boarding
Dec 28, 2018, 6:06 am
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Dec 28, 2018, 6:58 am
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Jan 3, 2019, 6:05 pm
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Not for breakfast.
I was told on the 27th that the bacon rolls are now by request only. The gin that started as slingsby with fever tree is now gordons with britvic. They have put some more sockets in the middle tables but still not enough. When I complained about the 3 sockets previously they said it wasn't meant to be a business lounge-despite there being a large banner at the entrance advertising it as a business lounge. Very poor compared to the old lounge.
I was told on the 27th that the bacon rolls are now by request only. The gin that started as slingsby with fever tree is now gordons with britvic. They have put some more sockets in the middle tables but still not enough. When I complained about the 3 sockets previously they said it wasn't meant to be a business lounge-despite there being a large banner at the entrance advertising it as a business lounge. Very poor compared to the old lounge.
Jan 4, 2019, 1:22 am
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Not for breakfast.
I was told on the 27th that the bacon rolls are now by request only. The gin that started as slingsby with fever tree is now gordons with britvic. They have put some more sockets in the middle tables but still not enough. When I complained about the 3 sockets previously they said it wasn't meant to be a business lounge-despite there being a large banner at the entrance advertising it as a business lounge. Very poor compared to the old lounge.
I was told on the 27th that the bacon rolls are now by request only. The gin that started as slingsby with fever tree is now gordons with britvic. They have put some more sockets in the middle tables but still not enough. When I complained about the 3 sockets previously they said it wasn't meant to be a business lounge-despite there being a large banner at the entrance advertising it as a business lounge. Very poor compared to the old lounge.
Jan 4, 2019, 2:28 am
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Are you basing your comment on fact or speculation? What about NCL - will those flights go too?
Jan 4, 2019, 7:17 am
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Pure speculation based on BA’s standard MO of reducing flights until the patronage dies away. LBA is already down to a single rotation on some days, MAN is much reduced fron S19. With regard to NCL, I suspect it will linger on for a few more years and will probably be the last English outpost.. The problem I see is thst BA are wanting LH expansion and the slots for this have to come from somewhere.
Jan 4, 2019, 6:16 pm
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Pure speculation based on BA’s standard MO of reducing flights until the patronage dies away. LBA is already down to a single rotation on some days, MAN is much reduced fron S19. With regard to NCL, I suspect it will linger on for a few more years and will probably be the last English outpost.. The problem I see is thst BA are wanting LH expansion and the slots for this have to come from somewhere.
They do in recent years appear to have reduced rotations on the non-Scottish domestics (BHD, LBA, MAN, NCL), but it would be a brave decision to axe them completely as there appears to be quite a bit of traffic on the domestics providing feed to long haul. Cut off the access and many of these passengers will travel direct on rival airlines or connect elsewhere (e.g. Amsterdam) on rival airlines, and as a result reduce the passengers for BA long haul.
If those in the regions are no longer flying BA, they will have little incentive to collect avios, so revenue streams to IAG from the sale of avios to credit cards, Tesco etc will be reduced.
Jan 4, 2019, 6:23 pm
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In addition when (hopefully) the third runway comes to LHR, part of the proposal to get approval was to increase the number of domestic slots, perhaps even in the medium term BA is positioning to be able to get some of these domestic only slots.
Jan 7, 2019, 4:27 am
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No group boarding on the LBA-LHR flight - we used gate 4. Not a major problem as there are only 95 pax on the plane.
Tried the new lounge at LBA for the first time, better food than before and a view of the planes too!
Tried the new lounge at LBA for the first time, better food than before and a view of the planes too!
Jan 7, 2019, 4:39 am
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There is probably more than an element of truth in this, the problem may however lie if the commercial pressure for additional LH slots needs to be satisfied before the third runway is completed. It was mooted on here several times after the BMI takeover that the LBA route was just a slot sitting exercise which seems to be partially true as the LBA rotations have decreased as new LH destinations have been introduced,
Jan 7, 2019, 6:26 am
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There is probably more than an element of truth in this, the problem may however lie if the commercial pressure for additional LH slots needs to be satisfied before the third runway is completed. It was mooted on here several times after the BMI takeover that the LBA route was just a slot sitting exercise which seems to be partially true as the LBA rotations have decreased as new LH destinations have been introduced,
If the 3rd runway ever happens, BA will probably have to buy some more smaller planes if they intend to launch additional domestic routes. However, as the union agreement seems to prevent Cityflyer landing at LHR/LGW (except in certain circumstances), is it ever reasonable to expect a shiny fleet of BA Embraers parked outside Terminal 5?
Jan 16, 2019, 4:01 am
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Like @Barnabie100 reported, today’s BA1347 was from gate 3 but with the priority lane reserved for groups 1 & 5. 2, 3 and 4 were put along the window and boarded last. How does that make sense?!
The lounge was lovely though. Staff so friendly, proactively walking round asking if I wanted a hot bacon roll and keeping everywhere clean!
The lounge was lovely though. Staff so friendly, proactively walking round asking if I wanted a hot bacon roll and keeping everywhere clean!