And my worst BA flight of the year goes to.... BA9
Jul 19, 2019, 4:43 pm
#32
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Economy, mostly :(
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 7,801
Well if that's the standard, then... In over 70 flights over the past 4 years on aircraft with an IFE (out of 151 flights total, see link in signature) I've not once come across a broken one. A handful of poorly calibrated touchscreens (but still usable), a few traytables that sloped a little rather than being perfectly horizontal.. but not broken. Perhaps I've just been lucky, in that none of those flights were on BA
Jul 19, 2019, 11:13 pm
#33
Original Poster
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: ±38,000 feet
Programs: LH HON, BA GGL, AF Plat, EK Plat
Posts: 6,426
i was also promised a bottle of wine from CW to take away as a little something - they forgot even about that...
Jul 20, 2019, 12:37 am
#35
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold, AA 1MM lifetime gold, Starwood gold, Marriott Gold Elite
Posts: 719
What struck me most about your post was that you are a GGL/CCR cardholder and that seemed to make no difference in avoiding or rectifying any of the service failures. Not a good sign and demotivating to get to the 5000 tier points annually. I wonder whether CX diamond plus members have to put up with similar issues.
Jul 20, 2019, 1:45 am
#36
Join Date: Feb 2008
Programs: BA (GGL/CCR)
Posts: 1,256
. I would be in the 'BA Apologist' category if we had to be split into two camps, but even I would never choose BA to get to Bangkok. Such a wonderful city with so many great ways of accessing it. Attractive fares on the likes of LH or EK often available. There is no really no excuse to hand your ŁŁŁ to BA if flying this route - BA just seem to have decided this is going to be its Cinderalla offering whereas the competition take it seriously...
Jul 20, 2019, 1:51 am
#37
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: ±38,000 feet
Programs: LH HON, BA GGL, AF Plat, EK Plat
Posts: 6,426
What struck me most about your post was that you are a GGL/CCR cardholder and that seemed to make no difference in avoiding or rectifying any of the service failures. Not a good sign and demotivating to get to the 5000 tier points annually. I wonder whether CX diamond plus members have to put up with similar issues.
I just think apart from some exceptional staff in Lhr and Concorde room, most of the airline is going downhill. And tbh the service I get on my weekly visits to CX in T3, the unlimited guesting they allow me as we are on first term basis, the priority for showers and food, the personal touch when dealing with forgotten property and the great smiles and welcomes make me feel at home with CX...
Jul 20, 2019, 2:47 am
#38
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Morbihan, France
Programs: Reine des Muccis de Pucci; Foreign Elitist (according to others)
Posts: 19,165
This is truly a Thank-God-My-Mascara-Is-Waterproof Tale of Woe. The tracks of my tears would shame a Panda. Poor little NufNuf77. Horrid British AIrways for causing him so much humiliation and suffering. First his seat was shifted, then he had a wobbly tray table (probably one on which I used to can-can when the IFE was us), and then he was ignored. Beastly Crew and a CSD/M who could have cared less.
Myself I blame the instigator of all this Litany of Misery and that is Mrs NuffNuff. We’re she not so unreasonable, poor NuffNuff could have sat in CW and complained about that. Nufs Darling, you need to man up and tell her how many beans make 5. Him Indoors wouldn’t dare tell me which class that I frequent. He tried to lecture me on money once. That conversation was of short duration as I have loads more than he does, but as it’s in a joint account it is ours. I married him for his body and his pension. The first is clapped out and the other is keeping up with inflation. Just.
So, whilst I feel your pain Sweetie, I have no intention in sharing it. Like others I’m delighted that the wifi worked but I don’t believe for a minute that you “forgot” to eat in the CCR. I suspect that you ran late, they’d given away your seat and you got what was left. Still it all terribly tragic since it evokes both fear and pity.
Myself I blame the instigator of all this Litany of Misery and that is Mrs NuffNuff. We’re she not so unreasonable, poor NuffNuff could have sat in CW and complained about that. Nufs Darling, you need to man up and tell her how many beans make 5. Him Indoors wouldn’t dare tell me which class that I frequent. He tried to lecture me on money once. That conversation was of short duration as I have loads more than he does, but as it’s in a joint account it is ours. I married him for his body and his pension. The first is clapped out and the other is keeping up with inflation. Just.
So, whilst I feel your pain Sweetie, I have no intention in sharing it. Like others I’m delighted that the wifi worked but I don’t believe for a minute that you “forgot” to eat in the CCR. I suspect that you ran late, they’d given away your seat and you got what was left. Still it all terribly tragic since it evokes both fear and pity.
Jul 20, 2019, 2:53 am
#39
Join Date: May 2010
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 1,144
This is truly a Thank-God-My-Mascara-Is-Waterproof Tale of Woe. The tracks of my tears would shame a Panda. Poor little NufNuf77. Horrid British AIrways for causing him so much humiliation and suffering. First his seat was shifted, then he had a wobbly tray table (probably one on which I used to can-can when the IFE was us), and then he was ignored. Beastly Crew and a CSD/M who could have cared less.
Myself I blame the instigator of all this Litany of Misery and that is Mrs NuffNuff. We’re she not so unreasonable, poor NuffNuff could have sat in CW and complained about that. Nufs Darling, you need to man up and tell her how many beans make 5. Him Indoors wouldn’t dare tell me which class that I frequent. He tried to lecture me on money once. That conversation was of short duration as I have loads more than he does, but as it’s in a joint account it is ours. I married him for his body and his pension. The first is clapped out and the other is keeping up with inflation. Just.
So, whilst I feel your pain Sweetie, I have no intention in sharing it. Like others I’m delighted that the wifi worked but I don’t believe for a minute that you “forgot” to eat in the CCR. I suspect that you ran late, they’d given away your seat and you got what was left. Still it all terribly tragic since it evokes both fear and pity.
Myself I blame the instigator of all this Litany of Misery and that is Mrs NuffNuff. We’re she not so unreasonable, poor NuffNuff could have sat in CW and complained about that. Nufs Darling, you need to man up and tell her how many beans make 5. Him Indoors wouldn’t dare tell me which class that I frequent. He tried to lecture me on money once. That conversation was of short duration as I have loads more than he does, but as it’s in a joint account it is ours. I married him for his body and his pension. The first is clapped out and the other is keeping up with inflation. Just.
So, whilst I feel your pain Sweetie, I have no intention in sharing it. Like others I’m delighted that the wifi worked but I don’t believe for a minute that you “forgot” to eat in the CCR. I suspect that you ran late, they’d given away your seat and you got what was left. Still it all terribly tragic since it evokes both fear and pity.
Poor NuffNuff how awful for him to suffer so badly! #firstworldproblems
Jul 20, 2019, 3:27 am
#40
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 5,596
This is truly a Thank-God-My-Mascara-Is-Waterproof Tale of Woe. The tracks of my tears would shame a Panda. Poor little NufNuf77. Horrid British AIrways for causing him so much humiliation and suffering. First his seat was shifted, then he had a wobbly tray table (probably one on which I used to can-can when the IFE was us), and then he was ignored. Beastly Crew and a CSD/M who could have cared less.
Myself I blame the instigator of all this Litany of Misery and that is Mrs NuffNuff. We’re she not so unreasonable, poor NuffNuff could have sat in CW and complained about that. Nufs Darling, you need to man up and tell her how many beans make 5. Him Indoors wouldn’t dare tell me which class that I frequent. He tried to lecture me on money once. That conversation was of short duration as I have loads more than he does, but as it’s in a joint account it is ours. I married him for his body and his pension. The first is clapped out and the other is keeping up with inflation. Just.
So, whilst I feel your pain Sweetie, I have no intention in sharing it. Like others I’m delighted that the wifi worked but I don’t believe for a minute that you “forgot” to eat in the CCR. I suspect that you ran late, they’d given away your seat and you got what was left. Still it all terribly tragic since it evokes both fear and pity.
Myself I blame the instigator of all this Litany of Misery and that is Mrs NuffNuff. We’re she not so unreasonable, poor NuffNuff could have sat in CW and complained about that. Nufs Darling, you need to man up and tell her how many beans make 5. Him Indoors wouldn’t dare tell me which class that I frequent. He tried to lecture me on money once. That conversation was of short duration as I have loads more than he does, but as it’s in a joint account it is ours. I married him for his body and his pension. The first is clapped out and the other is keeping up with inflation. Just.
So, whilst I feel your pain Sweetie, I have no intention in sharing it. Like others I’m delighted that the wifi worked but I don’t believe for a minute that you “forgot” to eat in the CCR. I suspect that you ran late, they’d given away your seat and you got what was left. Still it all terribly tragic since it evokes both fear and pity.
Jul 20, 2019, 4:20 am
#43
Join Date: Sep 2013
Programs: BAEC Gold, EK Skywards (enhanced Blue !), Oman Air Sindbad Gold
Posts: 6,395
It’s a fair point, given just how much discussion the Forum has seen in recent weeks/months about the delights - or more accurately, the absence of - to be had from travelling BA9. There has been a series of threads giving due warning, not least BA 9 LHR-BKK. Is it getting worse ?
So yes, no surprise there. The view might be that it is a comparatively low-yield route and hence the old equipment / poor standards (as you say ‘What did you expect ?’ )
But with BKK almost a permanent fixture in the league of most-visited global cities (maybe even Number One in some years .... ??) perhaps there is some surprise that BA doesn’t try to put on a better show for the route.
Jul 20, 2019, 4:30 am
#44
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 5,596
It’s a fair point, given just how much discussion the Forum has seen in recent weeks/months about the delights - or more accurately, the absence of - to be had from travelling BA9. There has been a series of threads giving due warning, not least BA 9 LHR-BKK. Is it getting worse ?
So yes, no surprise there. The view might be that it is a comparatively low-yield route and hence the old equipment / poor standards (as you say ‘What did you expect ?’ )
But with BKK almost a permanent fixture in the league of most-visited global cities (maybe even Number One in some years .... ??) perhaps there is some surprise that BA doesn’t try to put on a better show for the route.
Jul 20, 2019, 4:42 am
#45
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Newcastle/London & Worldwide
Programs: BAEC Gold, Virgin Flying Club Silver
Posts: 818
oh please share if there’s some good premium deals around - couldn’t find much yesterday for any destination - wished I had booked one of the killer CDG deals last week but hesitated.