Seat reservation fees increase
#106
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Actually the opposite, with the exceptions of certain routes, domestic lounges in the US are generally "clubs" which one had membership in and domestic F does not include lounge access. Again before people jump on this, often Transcons or whatever do include access.
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If my memory serves right, I read in another thread on upgrades, the experts here had mentioned that BA many times upgrades people with no status to entice them to buy upper cabin next time
so in one case BA entices and in another doesn’t care? Doesn’t make sense to me and I am not an expert on BA
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If there are certain services that should be part of certain price points that one pays for any product, and if an airline ticket should be no different, then one would have thought that lounge access should be part of any premium cabin ticket. Instead, one has to pay for entry to the lounge just to ensure you do get in.
That rather undermines the argument that there's some fundamental right to have free seat pre-allocation with every business class ticket, instead of recognising that different airlines do different things in their own way, for their own reasons.
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Then that is what the free market is for. There are other airlines that will not insult you thus. I suspect that we would both agree that if you have an otherwise equal choice between two airlines, one of which will insult you and the other of which will not, it would be irrational to choose the one that is being rude.Like lounge access? Which, if my memory serves me correctly, is included with every domestic first class fare within the US?
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Maybe BA should care. The so called once in a lifetime flyer maybe starting the first of many more years of flying BA.
If my memory serves right, I read in another thread on upgrades, the experts here had mentioned that BA many times upgrades people with no status to entice them to buy upper cabin next time
so in one case BA entices and in another doesn’t care? Doesn’t make sense to me and I am not an expert on BA
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Maybe BA should care. The so called once in a lifetime flyer maybe starting the first of many more years of flying BA.
If my memory serves right, I read in another thread on upgrades, the experts here had mentioned that BA many times upgrades people with no status to entice them to buy upper cabin next time
so in one case BA entices and in another doesn’t care? Doesn’t make sense to me and I am not an expert on BA
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I am flying again in a few days time, my waitlist cleared yesterday so I know the cabin is fully booked and very likely is oversold, and I was presented with a seat map with 55% of the seats available me to select from, window, aisle, middles, front, and rear. This is one of the reasons why I like the policy.
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6 Tiers?
The fact that BA can identify 6 different "tiers" within the business class cabin tells me that they did a pretty poor job designing the cabin. With most respectable airlines, I find nearly all business class seats to be more or less equal, and I would not pay a premium for any specific seat.
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The fact that BA can identify 6 different "tiers" within the business class cabin tells me that they did a pretty poor job designing the cabin. With most respectable airlines, I find nearly all business class seats to be more or less equal, and I would not pay a premium for any specific seat.
Last edited by Jimmie76; Jun 4, 2019 at 4:24 pm
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The fact that BA can identify 6 different "tiers" within the business class cabin tells me that they did a pretty poor job designing the cabin. With most respectable airlines, I find nearly all business class seats to be more or less equal, and I would not pay a premium for any specific seat.
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I think the poster refers to the pricing categories that differ at the front middle and back and again on upper decks. I have done a test without exec number and counted 4 but would not be surprised there if there are 6.