alex67500

I thought BA15 was basically 2 overnights with an afternoon layover in SIN?
Good news about the deodorant though, I know a lot of people here will be happy with that, myself included.

I'm a smoker myself, but it's an outdoor sport as much as possible. If I get a hotel room that smells of cold tobacco, I don't even unpack, it's straight back to reception to get another room. Did you speak to CC about it? I'm sure they would have had a spare for you to use.

johnaalex

I always use my own headphones but when I was talking to an FA on my flight from JFK the other day about the fact I had heard the ones now provided in F are very uncomfortable after a short time she said that they are still going missing at a rapid rate. She also said that BA are trying to make the crew responsible for any losses. Maybe CIHY can shed some light on that?

W213Sal

Not possible, specially not with WW fleet crew (as on JFK route), it'll be a union issue, it's not in their job description to stop people stealing stuff.

LBP2

cosmo74

That's probably the worst thing about flying with American, their crew must get penalised in some way if they go missing as it's quite a drama getting them all back, usually an hour or so before the end of the flight, and they'll quite happily wake you to get them if necessary. I think we had 5 or 6 announcements on one flight as they were missing a couple of pairs and there was frantic searching of the cabin.

LBP2

MFCC

We have to collect the headphones in at the end of the flight, once pax have disembarked and record the number. They then have to be security sealed in a bag. This is something we never did previously. If we collected and recorded fewer than 14 then it clearly isn't our fault. However, if we make no attempt to collect any at all and leave them on the seats in the cabin then I can imagine getting a fairly heavily worded email from a manager somewhere.

higham44

W213Sal

That's interesting, I actually don't know and I won't speculate further but I'll ask this question here -

Any input from BA union when there is soft or hard product changes? like new F or new CW suite? I assume BA need their buy in?

HMPS

After years of NO SMOKING environment, I suppose we get very sensitive to smoke smells, hence I can smell it on your clothes even if you smoked outdoors 3 hours ago.

happeemonkee

Thanks for the info MFCC. Has there been any feedback to BA about passengers complaining about the design of the headphones? Seen quite a few complaints on here about them being uncomfortable.

bowzer91

BA 198 today, similar to my previous experience of the new.

Bedding was great
New PJs still so-so for me
Used my own headphones this time, I don't like the new ones.
Wifi not working throughout
Catering ex-BOM was good but the meal service took 3 hours to complete. A couple seated in the centre started dining just as I finished, I felt for the crew!

flyingmonkie

Apologies, a misttype I was on the BA16 SYD - SIN and not the BA15. You are correct about the timing of the BA15 but the BA16 is an afternoon from SYD to SIN and then an overnight from SIN - LHR.

I didn't raise it with cabin crew because it was one of those times that I was doubting myself and not sure if I was smelling cleaning fluid or something else. Like many of these things you think about it afterwards and I'm increasingly certain it wasn't right.

I would usually agree with you on the hotel room but there have been a couple of occasions where there was no alternative (messed up bookings so only smoking rooms available) or on one occasion when I was just too knackered to have the fight that night so I'm familiar with the smell of tobacco overlaid by things to try and cover it up.

RB211

If they're so uncomfortable, why are people stealing them? Just curious.

I get to try them out for myself in a couple of weeks when I fly my first new soft First! But I'll still have my QC20s with me - I haven't found any headset that is anywhere near as comfortable as the QC20s. A contributing factor may be that I (sometimes) wear glasses which seem to give both on-ear and over-ear varieties a somewhat short half-life!

rb211.

F1flyer