Elal First Class
Jun 15, 2014 | 12:05 pm
#16
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Bedfordshire, UK
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Jun 15, 2014 | 1:34 pm
#17
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 2,558
I thought you'd said not once but TWICE(!!) you'd never do BA again?
Didn't your wife tell you never to book it again?
Or are you a betting man?
Hope they don't manage to bung up your next F with them!
Jun 16, 2014 | 12:46 am
#19
Join Date: Apr 2011
Programs: CX gold
Posts: 209
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Jun 16, 2014 | 3:26 am
#20
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: TSV, Australia
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Who cares about the kid? Surely if the parents are fine with the situation, then it is OK?
Go and hover over your own kids.
Go and hover over your own kids.
Jun 16, 2014 | 4:04 am
#21
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 14
Kosher Food from US
Done many trips, in all classes, and what they serve as kosher from US takes the biscuit. Hermolis, from the UK, must be the Rolls Royce. Flew BA F from Nigeria to London and received a superb four course meal. A pity that the flag ship Jewish carrier is unable to live up to it's name - in this regard.
Jun 16, 2014 | 4:16 am
#22
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Join Date: Jan 2013
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Just to clarify. We booked this trip 4-5 months before we flew. When we booked, I had a choice to either add my daughter to my ticket or pay for someone's flight and add her to their ticket.
It wasn't to hard to find someone I knew who would take a free flight and watch my kid. (We didn't find some stranger at the airport to watch our kid, which would make absolutely no sense.)
It wasn't to hard to find someone I knew who would take a free flight and watch my kid. (We didn't find some stranger at the airport to watch our kid, which would make absolutely no sense.)
Jun 16, 2014 | 4:57 am
#23
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Just to clarify. We booked this trip 4-5 months before we flew. When we booked, I had a choice to either add my daughter to my ticket or pay for someone's flight and add her to their ticket.
It wasn't to hard to find someone I knew who would take a free flight and watch my kid. (We didn't find some stranger at the airport to watch our kid, which would make absolutely no sense.)
It wasn't to hard to find someone I knew who would take a free flight and watch my kid. (We didn't find some stranger at the airport to watch our kid, which would make absolutely no sense.)
Jun 16, 2014 | 5:22 am
#24
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 14
So for a random person it sounds like I just dumped my kid with the some random girl. Got it.
Jun 16, 2014 | 12:00 pm
#25
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: LAX
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To the OP: thanks for posting this. It's all too rare that we see an El Al report here. I have only flown them in coach, so it was interesting hearing about their "premium" product. Any chance you have pictures that you can post?
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Jun 16, 2014 | 2:28 pm
#26
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2. Pictures would be very nice, didn`treally find good ones on the net
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Jun 17, 2014 | 2:25 pm
#27
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Kent, UK
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This thread is now open again.
I've spent a considerable amount of time having to clean up this thread.
Please focus on the report, not the OP's seating arrangements.
Many thanks,
matthandy
Moderator: Trip Reports
I've spent a considerable amount of time having to clean up this thread.
Please focus on the report, not the OP's seating arrangements.
Many thanks,
matthandy
Moderator: Trip Reports
Jun 18, 2014 | 7:12 am
#28
Join Date: Jul 2009
Programs: All of 'em
Posts: 438
I've flown HKG-TLV twice in J, and was happy with the soft product, but disappointed with the hard product, in particular, the IFE system.
But a direct flight with young kids in an inferior product is preferable to an indirect flight in a superior product. Especially since LY often opens up lots of award availability on this route.
But a direct flight with young kids in an inferior product is preferable to an indirect flight in a superior product. Especially since LY often opens up lots of award availability on this route.
Jun 18, 2014 | 1:17 pm
#29
Join Date: Feb 2005
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EL AL actually used to serve Hermolis food in First Class from LHR-TLV until end of June 2008. It was fabulous. Genuine restaurant quality. The quality was such that you wanted to wipe up every drop. The dishes were interesting and the menus creative. In extensive meetings I had with them at the time they claimed that the Hermolis meals cost 10 times more than what their 'own' caterers cost. Well, yes, that does make sense, given the rather pathetic standards their own caterers have ... Hermolis probably have more experience in producing high class airline meals than anyone else in the kosher business, and more than many on the non-kosher side as well.