Attention Economy Class Pax!!!!
 

https://www.etihad.com/en-us/about-u...my-experience/
Terrible news indeed.

I dunno, I don't fly Y that often but this could be good. add an extra row or 2 but offer more legroom and now faster wifi and pitch.. seems a winner

I read the information in the link and don't see what is terrible. For me the terrible thing about EY economy class is the prices they charge these days. I just booked my flights for Christmas MAN-BKK. Etihad were ridiculously expensive compared to other carriers. £1170 return compared to LH who were charging £560 for the same dates.

I experienced the new economy food last week. Contrary to the advertising puff it was smaller and worse quality than the old offering. No more metal cutlery. It appears to be designed to push people into buying the upgraded meal, which still appeared to.be substantial.

The news on the in-flight entertainment follows an alarming survey that a number of us got about 12 months ago. Seems that we can predict Etihad's strategy based on these surveys. Which is worrying.

As per the news release, not using metal cutlery saves weight and fuel. which can only be a good thing (environment consciousness being one reason)

What is terrible in the news? I can't find any!

Obviously, it's a press release, they're not designed to sound terrible. The problem is that the reality doesn't match the press release.

This is funny. Last week EY announced that they plan to cut the use of plastic by 80%, then this week they swap metal cutlery for plastic. haha

This is from the same airline that was spouting its environmental caring side by telling us some made up news that they flew a plane with almost no single use plastics used.

What do you think that the cutlery will be made of? Thin, weak "compostable plastic" which can only be recycled in very few facilities. Based on the recycling reputation of the country, I doubt there will be a facility to recycle items like that.

Sadly, yet another way that EY is hacking away at a product to the point where nobody wants to pay these sky high prices to fly them. It's a self fulfilling prophecy and they will wonder why they are seeing lower and lower returns. Be prepared to see more people coming onboard with McDonalds from the terminal.

Hilarious that Tony Douglas thinks that EY is a challenger brand too! What a load of old tosh!

Yep, its the way forward as far as i'm concerned. These days airport terminals are full of fast food outlets. I much prefer to get something I actually want to eat and get to eat it when I decide and not have to wait more than an hour for it to be cleared away. On night flights with EY it can be 3-4 hours before people have eaten and they cleared away the trays. Such a wasted of time if you want to sleep.

Where do they say they're introducing plastic cutlery?

saving weight and forcing you to buy the Wi-Fi

csdf's personal experience - post 4.

We should all know by now that when an airline makes changes like these it's invariably to benefit the airline first and not the customers, despite the wording of any press release.