subject2load

Not a fair comparison. So many differences in the high street shop offering, where the price paid has to cover :

1. Staff costs (already paid for as part of your air fare)

2. Comfortable seating facilities, both inside or out (ditto as above)

3. An invariably higher-quality end result, served in a china cup


I patronise lots of cafés where I can be sure of a good cup of tea for £2.70 - or less


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HIDDY

It's not really aimed at those who have fed and watered themselves for nowt in the lounges. Cup of char aside I think the prices are okay.

Stripe

To be fair, if you buy the "afternoon tea" (that doesn't come with actual tea), you get a discount on the actual tea. So £6.70 for the scone, clotted cream, jam, and tea doesn't seem that ridiculous. Certainly within the range of normal overpricing one expects for onboard food. Hopefully the scone is more than an inch in diameter and you get more than a thimble of cream.

SxMan

looks to me like a total rip-off.

ianwall

It's been a while since I travelled in ET. I thought tea was being served for free, along with e.g. crisps?

This menu looks like another BA 'enhancement', I just hope they don't mess around with LCY's offering.

BA6948

looked over at Jet2 and they have a better menu and even the possibility of preordering real meals for those long flights. Thinking of Amman and Cairo where you get a bottle of water and mini packet of crisp!!!! Oh well!

krispy84

Perhaps it’s just me, but I don’t get the outrage over £2.70 for a cup of tea. It’s 2022.

corporate-wage-slave

Tetley tea is £2.90 on Jet2. Or £1.50 for a cup of hot water.

salut0

Is the scone the same one they serve warmed in CE for Afternoon Tea? I assume the jam and cream are the same if they are like what’s in the picture.

BA6948

my point was not the price of the tea but the range of food Jet2 have both on board and to pre-order. With BA it is sandwiches and one scone. Nothing substantial or interesting for longer flights.

BA6948

me neither cause I will never buy one 😂 better spend the money on Prosecco or g&t.

gingerlucy

Oh no, we loved the tapas box! The current one wasn't as good as the previous one but still we will miss it. I see there's a ploughman's which I guess is supposed to be a substitute but it looks far too heavy on the crackers.

Scots_Al

3 different vodkas, 5 gins, even 2 rums - but only one fairly uninteresting whisky?!?!

subject2load

The limited BA range will no doubt fill a gap for a good number of travellers who are just looking for a simple snack to stave off any ‘in-flight hunger’ ; but I’m inclined to agree that the 1970’s sandwiches & pies approach is seriously lacking in both imagination and variety.

When you consider the sort of pre-order meals offered by an ultra-LCC such as Air Asia, the comparison is little short of amazing. Maybe BA feel that their non-British customers in particular will be attracted by this rather simple ‘British’ menu ……. and maybe they’re right …..

That apart, I often wonder just how wise the ‘celeb chefs’ (in this case, Tom Kerridge who I happen to like a lot) are in agreeing to attach their name so prominently to sandwiches & pies (or indeed other foodie items). We all know that, in the sheer volume of what is in essence a factory-like preparation process, a ‘Tom Kerridge-inspired’ sandwich loaded onto the flight will ultimately bear little resemblance to something that he personally would rustle up for say, a family member or house guest. There is always the possibility that chefs can do more harm than good to their reputation / public perception …… but then again the highly-remunerative licensing agreement must be a hard-to-resist temptation.

Sealink

Maybe you get a tub of Lurpak to take home