Unacceptable Experience with British Airways in WTP
Jun 21, 2019, 8:35 pm
#76
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Mexico
Programs: BAEC Gold / Marriott Platinum
Posts: 3,543
Good point. I'm based out of Mex tho, so would not go that way to Asia, I'll go via LAX. But thinking now, that could be an option. I'm looking at a little Asia tour next year, so could look at qantas options trans-pacific. Thanks for the tip
Jun 22, 2019, 1:50 am
#77
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Plymouth, UK
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 1,159
Flown WTP a couple of times now and on both occasions I was hugely disappointed... particularly with food. Not much of a step up from WT tbh except for the extra seat room. I don't see it worth double the WT price which is often what it is. So now I won't book WTP... it is either CW or WT for me on long-haul.
Jun 22, 2019, 9:41 pm
#79
Join Date: Apr 2008
Programs: Confirmed
Posts: 1,091
Form my perspective this is nearly as good as First class experience on BA. Crew offers two when requesting one and that is “exceptional”.
Outdated cabin and hardware and ignorance is the “Britishness” that money can’t buy from foreign airlines such as ANA or Singapore.
Outdated cabin and hardware and ignorance is the “Britishness” that money can’t buy from foreign airlines such as ANA or Singapore.
Jun 23, 2019, 7:20 am
#81
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Kendal, Cumbria and Luzon
Programs: BA Silver, PR Elite, Avis Preferred Plus, PC Diamond Ambassador
Posts: 1,122
What an extraordinary statement!
This sounds very corporate privileged.
I read the OP has recently launched a brand - his/her neck is likely to be on the line. And when carefully considered the extra costs of premium travel may well effectively come out of "own" pocket
AND some of us do have a moral conscience. Avios earned on corporate travel really belong to the company not the individual. The fact the taxman allows otherwise is possibly because MP's and HMRC employees don't want to shoot themselves in the foot?
I read the OP has recently launched a brand - his/her neck is likely to be on the line. And when carefully considered the extra costs of premium travel may well effectively come out of "own" pocket
AND some of us do have a moral conscience. Avios earned on corporate travel really belong to the company not the individual. The fact the taxman allows otherwise is possibly because MP's and HMRC employees don't want to shoot themselves in the foot?
Jun 23, 2019, 10:49 pm
#83
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: London / Los Angeles
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Jun 24, 2019, 12:12 am
#84
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Stockholm, Sweden.
Programs: BA, JAL
Posts: 689
Night and day difference between BA and VS in the few times I've been subjected to premium economy. Last time, i had an experience where the staff expected me to clean up the previous occupants sticky spillage. Really poor when they followed it with a comment about where I could get more paper if needed (?). VS was so good by comparison.
Jun 24, 2019, 12:16 am
#85
Join Date: Dec 2016
Programs: BAEC GGL/CR; Hilton Diamond; Mucci des Puccis
Posts: 5,609
Just back from PE long haul on CX, and it’s very good. Attentive FAs, clean cabins, and a medium rare piece of beef. But the smallest piece of bacon I’ve ever seen in the breakfast. I wouldn’t say it’s chalk and cheese with BA by any means.
Jun 24, 2019, 12:43 am
#86
Join Date: Jul 2017
Programs: Mucci Chevalier des Internautes Amables; BAEC
Posts: 970
It depends how one values these things. For me, personally, a reasonably comfortable seat on a comfortable aircraft for a 10h overnight flight was a material factor. The drive for TPs meant I booked with BA without even looking around too much. Now Norwegian can offer a similar price (a bit higher including the forfeited deposit but not by much), with a much better seat and on a 787 and as i will easy retain gold this year any way its not a difficult decision vs an old (but perhaps newly re-squabbed) seat on an ancient and noisy 747.
Jun 24, 2019, 12:56 am
#88
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold / OW Emerald
Posts: 753
I agree with OP. I enjoy CW, and also enjoy my short-haul flights with BA. WTP was dreadful. They decided that having 4 CC for WTP+WT on a 788 was adequate. It is not. The seats are useless if you need to get any work done, as the table is very flimsy. I would rather fly economy in a less densified cabin and get the best of both worlds. (Like the 8-accross JAL 787)
Jun 24, 2019, 11:14 am
#90
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Norwich, UK
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Folks, the thread subject is the quality or otherwise of BA’s WTP cabin. A number of off-topic posts regarding CW seat selection have therefore been removed. Let’s stick to the subject matter, please.
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Last edited by NWIFlyer; Jun 24, 2019 at 12:27 pm