Mackle

I like the Fevertree light on it's own, I find it settles the stomach quite nicely.

Shame to see it go

dwugson

Forget the tonic!! Enjoy the gin with, if needed, a dash of whatever diluent is provided. I personally think Fever Tree is a millenium hype unless my taste buds have been dulled by gin before it became trendy

Oxon Flyer

What does it matter, given BA's new 'Chuck in the whole miniature of gin and a random amount of tonic" approach to serving a G&T nowadays …. ?

HIDDY

Gaviscon.

orbitmic

Light versions of all drinks almost invariably taste sweeter than regular ones

JayeJ

^
It doesn't always pay to have overly sensitive tastes.

WickedStepMother

Regular Schweppes tonic now contains artificial sweeteners, so I’ve stopped buying it.

lost_in_translation

BA need to be careful here, I vary what I drink between champagne and G&T and I think these tastes are representative of quite a lot of BA frequent fliers from what I observe (CE in particular seems like those are the only two drinks anyone has on a lot of flights). If there's no Fever-Tree to mix with the gin I'll be going back to champagne only which is surely a lot more expensive for BA to provide than a G&T. It doesn't take many people to think like this for the entire saving to be eaten up, especially in F/CCR where you're looking at passengers drinking LPGS instread of a G&T.

Fever-Tree is also such an easy win in BA's quest to market itself as a modern, British, premium brand; I hope this has been factored into whatever accountant-led analysis BA have done (yet again).

PUCCI GALORE

Does it? I just might go back to buying it. Personally I thought the whole Fever Tree nonsense was basically all about hype and marketing and charge 3 times or more for the privilege. Oddly enough I don’t usually drink Gin and Slim. Now since Bombay Sapphire has vanished again from BA in flight Long Haul, I stick to Champagne. As for taking it off, I’m utterly indifferent. At least it’s Schweppes and not that Nordic stuff beloved of Iberia.

Oxon Flyer Darling. We’ve had this conversation about your Gin and Tonic on that wretched flight to Madrid before. When I get you into my house, you will have my Gin and Tonic and you will love it. It’s always measured and perfect. A bit like me. (Are you going to tell your wife or this this our secret?). You will not be the same man again.

The tonic will will not be Fever Tree I can’t afford the overpriced mixer and keep myself in tights and make-up!

Scots_Al

Another one here who doesn’t particularly like Fever Tree with Tanqueray - Schweppes works better with it.

xPositor

The standard non-light versions of a lot of soft drinks now feature artificial sweeteners because of the sugar tax.

But forget all this nonsense about which tonic is best with gin, because the answer is bitter lemon - if you're fast enough to get the only one typically loaded on a long haul, and forget it if you're short haul.

chris1922Mk2

This. I can taste the sweetener in the regular Schweppes tonic, I've no idea why they have to do this. Fever Tree was all sugar, to the best of my knowledge, and did taste better for it. My mother is the same, and buy's LIDL's own tonic at home, as it is all sugar ! Or maye it's ALDI...
I don't do diet drinks.

cosmo74

I think this is a real shame, I never used to like gin and tonic until Fever Tree came along as I really don't like the bitter taste of schweppes tonic. As another poster said, this will just drive me to drink more champagne so BA and their penny pinching may well end up costing them more money along with the customer bad will.

orbitmic

Ahah but they seem to love the "blue tonic" and the "pink tonic" out there and I'm not so sure on adding unnecessary artificial colourings for the sake of it (though their grapefruit tonic is actually ok!). Hendricks with Elderflower tonic would be my personal choice if BA want to go for something entirely idiosyncratic which will just please me!

adrianlondon

As far as I can tell, via finding websites listing the ingredients going back over 5 years, Schweppes has always had both sugar and artificial sweeteners in it. However, the new 1783 range doesn't. Even the "light" version doesn't and is just a con, as it's full of sugar in different forms.

As the new Schweppes range is cheaper than Fever Tree with, as far as I can tell, no disadvantages (looking at the ingredients) I think BA did the right thing, especially if they got a deal on the 1783 range.