BA's reactions to May 17th openings
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BA's reactions to May 17th openings
Looking more and more likely that Portugal will be the only major Euro destination that will be green-listed this month.
Good for us, as we are booked on the only London departure on Sun 30th to FAO - which it looks like is sold out entirely, with 15 rows of club and not a single seat available to reserve. Given this I am amazed there arent more flights going - I presume BA are in a position to add more at short notice once they get certainty from gov't?
I also presume the first few rows of the cabin are blocked out, not reserved, as it would be nice for us lowly Bronzers to have somewhere to sit
Good for us, as we are booked on the only London departure on Sun 30th to FAO - which it looks like is sold out entirely, with 15 rows of club and not a single seat available to reserve. Given this I am amazed there arent more flights going - I presume BA are in a position to add more at short notice once they get certainty from gov't?
I also presume the first few rows of the cabin are blocked out, not reserved, as it would be nice for us lowly Bronzers to have somewhere to sit
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Last summer BA were pretty flexible - mainly in reaction to the chopping and changing travel corridors and getting people home on time. So I'm pretty sure they'll be quick to add flights if there is demand. Surprised they haven't at least swapped these to A321s, they are indeed very busy!
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I think they'll be loads of flights loaded in no time if certain countries become green and allow us Brits entry. And fares will be very very high to boot! FAO was the prime example later last summer for it's short appearance on the corridors
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My ~70 'insurance' flights to FAO in August could turn out to be a good bet then. It's that or Greece right now for us (and they were really cheap flights too, damn shame we can only use one set!)
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At the end of the day, although these destinations will be on the green list and will not require quarantine, they will still require a lot of testing on return. This will put some people off and will mean 6/7 flights are not necessary.
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Looking more and more likely that Portugal will be the only major Euro destination that will be green-listed this month.
Good for us, as we are booked on the only London departure on Sun 30th to FAO - which it looks like is sold out entirely, with 15 rows of club and not a single seat available to reserve. Given this I am amazed there arent more flights going - I presume BA are in a position to add more at short notice once they get certainty from gov't?
I also presume the first few rows of the cabin are blocked out, not reserved, as it would be nice for us lowly Bronzers to have somewhere to sit
Good for us, as we are booked on the only London departure on Sun 30th to FAO - which it looks like is sold out entirely, with 15 rows of club and not a single seat available to reserve. Given this I am amazed there arent more flights going - I presume BA are in a position to add more at short notice once they get certainty from gov't?
I also presume the first few rows of the cabin are blocked out, not reserved, as it would be nice for us lowly Bronzers to have somewhere to sit
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I agree that sadly being on the green list still won’t tempt some to travel due to the testing etc
but as demand is so low at the moment in general, adding flights won’t be a problem, maybe a better bet may be to aircraft change from a 320 to a 321, or even if demand is strong, I’m sure BA will have spare 787/350s they could put on a green short haul destination
but as demand is so low at the moment in general, adding flights won’t be a problem, maybe a better bet may be to aircraft change from a 320 to a 321, or even if demand is strong, I’m sure BA will have spare 787/350s they could put on a green short haul destination
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