F comparison.
#16
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Join Date: Dec 2008
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Ah well, the OP will know not to darken BAs door again... Live and learn, again, I suppose!
#19
Join Date: May 2010
Location: UK
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There is a big difference between easily stepping over someone's lower legs (only whilst they are in bed mode) and needing to disturb your neighbour to exit your seat.
#21
Join Date: Oct 2017
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6. They should really allow the first passengers to disembark first. On Emirates they leave the curtains drawn allows you to disembark and then allow business to leave. On BA they let business go right up to the door and you have to push into the streaming movement of business makes it very awkward.
I assume it wouldn’t happen though on an aircraft with door 1 forward of First when that door is in use, which will be common at LHR.
#23
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: MAN DXB ✈️
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I always call EK F Class as EK Funeral Class. Because you know what a coffin feels like when you get in the suite and they close the door.
On the sectors I have done I have found EK service to be indifferent. Wine selections are show off bling ones. Anything by Moët is bling with no real flavour.
On the sectors I have done I have found EK service to be indifferent. Wine selections are show off bling ones. Anything by Moët is bling with no real flavour.
wine being bling - is that a term for first growths I’ve not heard of?
did Ba get a run of the Dom perignon P2? That was an exceptional Moët
#24
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This does happen on BA when both cabins using the same door. They don’t use the curtains but a cabin crew member will stand in the aisle and ask passengers to wait (I doubt using curtains on the ground would get past BA’s safety people either). But clearly this isn’t very consistent.
I assume it wouldn’t happen though on an aircraft with door 1 forward of First when that door is in use, which will be common at LHR.
Similarly in on all my J experiences I can’t remember not not having to wait for F.
#25
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No, BA doesn’t offer priority luggage delivery.
#26
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Join Date: May 2017
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This does happen on BA when both cabins using the same door. They don’t use the curtains but a cabin crew member will stand in the aisle and ask passengers to wait (I doubt using curtains on the ground would get past BA’s safety people either). But clearly this isn’t very consistent.
I assume it wouldn’t happen though on an aircraft with door 1 forward of First when that door is in use, which will be common at LHR.
well didn't happen today and we all left in the central door at LHR.
And actually strangely by the by the time I got down the tunnel everyone from economy was already there! So they must have got their door opened first!
#27
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Join Date: May 2017
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Oh right. So actually 2 of the 7 things I have listed BA actually don’t do.
Blimey. When the new J suite is out who is actually going to want to pay double and sit in F?
Blimey. When the new J suite is out who is actually going to want to pay double and sit in F?
#28
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You must have been lucky to avoid the mid-J 747s then. They routinely disembark from door 2, so WTP and Club get out before F.
#29
Join Date: May 2010
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it’s a bit like comparing a Premier Inn with an Aman....