BA going Buy on Board refreshments for short haul...

richardw

PeacefulWaters wrote: »

Does it apply to London City flights?

From summer 2017 apparently.

hollie.weimeraner

PeacefulWaters wrote: »

I look forward to watching them successfully take orders, heat and serve 150 bacon butties on their MAN to LHR flights.

I've just flown this route twice (both directions) and they literally just manage to serve the drinks and packets of snacks. Had we not had to circle Manchester on the way back some people wouldn't have been served

To be honest I don't really see the need to serve anything on routes this short.

Gloomendoom

PeacefulWaters wrote: »

I look forward to watching them successfully take orders, heat and serve 150 bacon butties on their MAN to LHR flights.

I remember being almost force fed a full breakfast on a flight from Glasgow to Belfast.

holidaysforme

I won't miss the food - such as it was. It was was always nice to start a holiday with a g&t or two:)
Don't normally bother on short flights but if we are going to be eating, we usually buy a boots meal deal or similar.
I suppose it's just signifies the downgrading of the service, which in my opinion was very average anyway.

dickydonkin

Marcus-H wrote: »

so what happens on my booking I made in July for March next year that was advertised with complimentary food & drinks?

You should get the option to cancel without a fee or be given a thousand Avios .

PeacefulWaters

dickydonkin wrote: »

You should get the option to cancel without a fee or be given a thousand Avios .

That sounds very fair.

http://www.headforpoints.com/2016/09/30/british-airways-buy-on-board-refund-compensation/

holidaysforme

Can I cancel/ claim the 1000 avios if I have booked the flights with Avios.com rather than ba avios?
i have an outbound flight booked with avios, and the return flight booked with ba.

isplumm

Hi,

I have just flown from LHR to Paris Orly - flight was just over 1 hour - I got the smallest coffee ever, as well as a packet of nuts ... not worth it.

If they start charging I wouldn't bother.

Mark

magyar

holidaysforme wrote: »

Can I cancel/ claim the 1000 avios if I have booked the flights with Avios.com rather than ba avios?
i have an outbound flight booked with avios, and the return flight booked with ba.

I can't see why not, because they're using Avios to compensate people who paid with cash and not just rewards, so I can't see how it matters how you paid for it.. They'll presumably credit the Avios to your BA.com account and you can either choose them to pay for food on the flight or (as I intend to) use them for something better!

pollypenny

The very short hops, like Manchester or London to any airport less than two hours away it's hardly worth the trouble of serving even a coffee.

Over a couple of hours, maybe a coffee would be appreciated. Not the horrible snacks, though.