GentleGiant

In the same way as many miniatures are taken off the planes to be drunk in hotel rooms

danmushman

always better if you convince the FA to not unscrew the mini champagne too

navylad

I suspect not, quantity to scale and greater income generation makes lounges more profitable in Heathrow, but I do think there will be more transferred to a third party or OW lounge around the world. Your counter argument that there is some other unavoidable costs isn�t a good one in my mind; you don�t happen to work in the MOD do you? Reminds me of people making the same arguments for overspending on procurement projects.

adrianlondon

I once, a few years ago, took a packet of crisps from the flight and ate it in the arrivals lounge.

So that's one packet on me for someone to take. Enjoy!

danmushman

Please supply your frequent flyer number so you can be banned from all future flights!

Lioneye

Do I have to ingest, digest and egest everything in the lounge before boarding to avoid becoming a fugitive?

GentleGiant

Seems to be the case.

Otherwise our new King might have your neck on the block! 😂 😂

danmushman

Egesting lounge matter on the flight is a definite no no

ermis177

But the issue here is that there is a constant �battle� between the client and the company. BA is trying to save as much as they can and the customer is trying to make the most of it. The occasional bag of crisps gone missing is similar to my local GP when years ago they decided to start using second class stamps as this would have save 1 pound per month or something while they had a very profitable GP surgery. Also the recent examples of closing so many lounges including the one in Amsterdam shows that it had nothing to do with crisps or a Diet Coke taken from the lounge. The lounge actually never opened after the pandemic.

HIDDY

I suspect it's those who do that plus fill their pockets on the way out that are the problem.

stifle

People do this every day, though I should hope they use the lavatories.

IAMORGAN

I am not going to criticise you for taking a few beers & snacks for your flight.

But who said BA mainline can�t manage a bar round? Of course they can? They choose not to. For years, BA served a hot breakfast to everyone on flights to Scotland and a bar service / salad in the evening. Ex Gatwick, in Club, they managed a full English to Jersey. Now it�s a filled roll. Blame covid or whatever - it�s all down to cost. Of course they could.

I don�t think BA suggest they can�t. I think they�d point out that a bottle of water & a snack is more than pre covid. And their BoB selection responds to needs of their customers.

navylad

A battle? Rather hyperbole there.

For me, flying is a transaction- I pay for a service, if I was not happy with the value received, I�d book elsewhere. I wouldn�t try to get more value by taking alcohol from the lounge. YVMV.

How does lounges closing during the pandemic and not opening after disprove that the economics of lounges includes the higher cost due to people taking things for consumption later?

As for your example of your GP switching to second class stamps, very much OT and I don�t know the size of your GP�s practice but with up to 2804 patients per GP, letters sent for screening of chronic conditions, results, referral letters etc, will likely save thousands of pounds a year by using 2nd rather than 1st (and would save more if email and other electronic methods used more). The NHS spends somewhere around �100m on postage a year so those savings do matter.

CHESHLAD

I don't think there would be Galley space on most s/h a/c to have anything like full catering restored; years ago all catering was uplifted from down route stations as well for the return leg....

ermis177

It�s a transaction for me as well but when things go wrong sometimes I feel the need to self compensate. Quick example: last week I was flying from Gatwick. First lounge breakfast options were fine. Then I decide to take a shower. For 45 minutes they couldn�t find the keys from the showers and at the end after 1 hour someone came and open the shower door with a knife. Yes a kitchen knife. He used it to unlock the door. They had no shaving kit and the shower was dirty. Hair all over the place and the toilet wasn�t clean at all ( I don�t want to get into details but i am sure you get what I mean). I ended up compensate myself with a few bag of crisps and a muffin from the lounge. I put them in my bag and had them during the flight. Regarding your �theft� argument you will not find a single CPS lawyer who will take this case. Proving the definition of theft for items that are available to consume by clients but it�s a theft if they take them on a plane it�s impossible.