cfischer

This flight on the departure board in BSL brought back memories

swiss_global

LX1485 PRG-ZRH got diverted to BSL today. I don't know the reason. The plan spent a bit more than one hour on the ground before continuing to ZRH, where it arrived about two hours late. The flight was operated with an A220 wet leased by AirBaltic.

Concerto

What are those AirBaltic flights like? I will be on a BT operated LX flight in December.

cfischer

yeah, I checked as well ... very strange diversion.

ty97

I haven't flown BT operating for LX, but did fly a few BT fights within the Baltics last month and found them perfectly nice. The A223s are newer. Other than that, they are like pretty much any plane running intra-Europe: all-economy style seating with some seats blocked in the 'J' cabin toward the front.

shipsmail

I can see one difference to the LX-A220: there is no seat 1A on the seat map. So the single seat in row 2 is maybe the best seat?

spellofiron

The seats in row 2 have much more legroom than the other rows.
The service on the BT operated flights is the same as on LX flights.

Concerto

Back in the day I think there was one BSL-ZRH and vv per day, which left at 06h20 or something else horribly early. The return flight came back to Basel at around 23h00, so it was presumably used for other Crossair flights from Zurich during the day.

But I once flew BSL-ZRH in what I think was 2000. I was on the way to Stockholm and there was some amazing offer going for a cumulating flight segments on LX and SR. So, I managed to cobble together GVA-BSL-ZRH-ARN at little extra cost, if any at all (coming back I did simply ARN-ZRH-GVA). I remember that the flight had come from somewhere else (in Spain, I think) and made a stop in BSL mid afternoon before continuing to ZRH. And I believe it carried the number LX666. And, the best yet, you actually got some catering on that flight!

I also remember the economy class catering on the Stockholm flight, some decent hot dish with wild rice, along with a salad and dessert on the meal tray and whatever drinks you wanted. It was easy to decide that a miles upgrade for the return flight would be a waste of miles because the economy class catering was so good (my memory is that it was slightly less good on the return flight). But that catering was light years ahead of the rubbish they serve you in "business" now, simply so much better. The ticket price, however, was CHF599...

bobhope2

Maybe you are thinking of the early days of LX where there was an offer of 10000 bonus miles per segment flown? Those were the days.

cfischer

I remember flying ZRH-BSL-MUC-BSL-ZRH ... that was a lot of extra miles

Concerto

No, it was back in Swissair Crossair days in 2000, on 31st March. Here's the routing:

1550 dep GVA
1640 arr BSL LX955
1720 dep BSL
1755 arr ZRH LX667
2015 dep ZRH
2245 arr ARN SR412

The return on 4th April had the following routing:

1710 dep ARN
1945 arr ZRH SR421
2050 dep ZRH
2135 arr GVA SR3944(LX)

f4free

Isnt that when I met you?

f4free

Ok once in the air, but I think more unreliable. 2/2 early AM to AMS were quite late. I suspect crew rest is timed too tight.

Concerto

Oh, it might have been. I thought it was on one of those endless Bern Basel rotations. We looked like total spacemen when we did that. Even the security staff were laughing at us when we went through the third time on the same day!

airoli

No, that was me.