Bits: BA removes newspapers from inbound short haul, Etihad 10% discount code

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• Gabriel says:

  12 Aug12 August 08:13

  OT: Head for Points now appears as “channel no longer available” on Apple News 🙁

  • Rob says:

    12 Aug12 August 09:18

    This is hopefully temporary.

    A few weeks ago I got an automated complaint from Apple about an article. I didnt understand what they were on about so I ignored it. Next thing I know the whole channel is pulled!

    I have filed a complaint and hopefully it can get resolved. It is annoying as I was in the middle of upgrading to Apple News Publisher status.

• Joan says:

  12 Aug12 August 08:45

  I travelled back from Zurich to London City 2 weeks ago on Club. It was rubbish . There were 6 people in business and I was number 4. After me the other two had no food choice . The tray tables were so sloping that the steward said we’d have to wedge napkins under our trays to keep them from falling on our laps . There were no tissues or loo paper in the bathroom . I had thought the £69 upgrade was worth it but it really wasn’t !
  On top of that .. And slightly off topic , my outbound flight was cancelled an hour before , because it wasn’t full enough. They offered me a flight out of Heathrow 36 hours later !! A bit ridiculous when I was only going for the weekend to attend a wedding which I would have missed had I taken their alternative flight. I had to make a mad dash to Gatwick instead and buy an expensive easyjet last minute flight . Two weeks later I am still waiting for a refund from BA and apart from a case number , there’s been no response to my compensation claim . Not impressed

• A Ho says:

  12 Aug12 August 08:48

  I flew BA BCN to LGW last night in economy, no more sandwich / veggie salad. It’s now peanuts / biscuits / crisps and normal bar service.

  • Rich. says:

    12 Aug12 August 12:06

    What time was the flight? I understood that the cutbacks were for mid morning and afternoon..?

• Sussex Bantam says:

  12 Aug12 August 08:51

  OT – Tesco life insurance reminder. My last set of points posted today so if you signed up when Raffles promoted this last year then yours probably have to ! Time to cancel…

  • James67 says:

    12 Aug12 August 09:42

    Thanks, was planning to look into that, you’ve saved me the trouble.

  • Gabriel says:

    12 Aug12 August 10:36

    Cheers, I need to check it out as well

• Chris Anderson says:

  12 Aug12 August 09:15

  Slightly OT question – is it worth making any complaints about the drops in service to an existing booking that was made before the drops were announced?

  I have a booking in First with BA in October that was made at the start of the year, and since then they’ve announced various reductions in service like no blankets on day flights, removal of tasting menu, etc. Feels like I can legitimately claim that I’m not getting the service I was signing up to when I booked, and ask for some sort of compensation.

  Just wondering if there’s some small print somewhere stopping me doing this, or even if it’s worth wasting my time on. Any success stories?

• Go says:

  12 Aug12 August 09:32

  Any thoughts on what BA could cut next!

  • harry says:

    12 Aug12 August 09:38

    With any luck the trolley dollies 50+ whose legs are no longer quite so generous as when they were first recruited! 🙂

    Too many of them IMV.

    • Simon says:

      12 Aug12 August 10:00

      When the get to 40 should they be redeployed as baggage handlers!? Or are you more of a Logans Run kinda chap?

    • Cheshire Pete says:

      12 Aug12 August 10:03

      Yet, these ‘old contracts’ BA cabin crew are undoubtedly what the service is to me. You can tell instantly when you have seasoned crew who know what you expect, and they deliver. Give me them anytime over these not my jobs worth ‘new contract’ staff who’d be better off going to Easyjet or Ryanair to be frank.

      • The_Real_A says:

        12 Aug12 August 10:17

        I completely disagree – the worst service i have received is always from the old timers.

  • James67 says:

    12 Aug12 August 09:44

    The fares hopefully, they are simply outrageous.

• harry says:

  12 Aug12 August 09:57

  yep just got the email

  Receive a £5 statement credit everytime you spend £50 or more on your eligible American Express® Card at participating Esso locations before 18 September 2016. Available to the first 12,500 enrolees.

  Gold card

  • Sussex Bantam says:

    12 Aug12 August 11:21

    Not on mine unfortunately….

• Daz says:

  12 Aug12 August 10:01

  Since I dragged myself in to the Information Age 6 years ago, I never read or buy papers anymore, even the Metro on the train seems quite a strenuous. And I can’t turn the pages on short haul due to my ever-increasing belly size from eating to much on business flights!

  If anything should be cut I would say this. This may stop other things going; then again maybe not being BA.

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