BA says goodbye to in-flight shopping on short-haul, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph

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• Wivus says:

  2 Dec2 December 09:13

  Now they are stopping handing out the DM does that mean no more hot towels to clean up afterwards?
  Do not really mind the Telegraph though. Yes, quite right wing but rarely as rabidly fascist as the DM. Sport coverage is decent too. I’ll give them a call and let them know they can keep that one.

• Steve Shaw says:

  2 Dec2 December 09:15

  Just a point of note Rob, customers can still buy via highligeshop online, I didn’t see it written in your article.

  Glad to see the back of the daily mail and probably the torygraph, some dreadful rubbish printed in those rags.

  • Steve Shaw says:

    2 Dec2 December 09:19

    Ps certain routes customers raid the duty free carts, and some they get very vocal when we don’t carry the right shade/colour/pattern of neck strap/watch strap/scalf.

    Last week I had a Basle customer who was a GGL complain about everything under the sun and was hugely rude to all the crew, a vile creature, looked him up and he was the CEO of a charity!!!!

    • John says:

      2 Dec2 December 10:01

      Tell us more, Steve (about crew life generally, not the charity person).

      • JamesB says:

        2 Dec2 December 10:27

        They have great stories to tell, I have a friend who is a purser on CX.

    • TripRep says:

      2 Dec2 December 10:55

      Makes you wonder if the duty free was being expensed courtesy of the charadee….

• Nick says:

  2 Dec2 December 09:27

  Yes Rob, they do make that calculation… everything on the aircraft is weighed and they know exactly how much it costs in fuel! Short Paris sectors don’t sell much, but the same aircraft is bound to fly to Norway or Switzerland at some point – and the catering contract is to load a trolley in the same place regardless of destination (so they don’t accidentally mess it up!) – and the sales on those routes more than cover the cost of it being loaded.

  • Volker says:

    2 Dec2 December 10:32

    I assume the High Life Shop magazine will also disappear from the seat pockets? That would save BA a considerable amount of weight and money, too 🙂 Btw, I have done quite a number of on board purchases and I’ll definitely miss this particular kind of in-flight entertainment 😀

• Stu N says:

  2 Dec2 December 09:40

  Very glad they are dropping the Mail.
  It’s not the politics of it that I object to – it’s the inflammatory way it presents them.

  Shame about the Telegraph, often amuses me to get a Telegraph and Guardian and try to work out if they are talking about the same reality.

  • Stu N says:

    2 Dec2 December 09:43

    Sorry, “ not _just_ the politics”.

• Leo says:

  2 Dec2 December 10:02

  Whatever you think of the Daily Mail itself, and I don’t really care what anyone here does think of the Daily Mail because I come here for points info – I have always struggled to understand why BA wanted to link its own brand to it. I didn’t get what was in it for them. I have always thought that BA was quite savvy regarding marketing and brand management – even if the actual product may sometimes disappoint. I can’t imagine that anyone has purposely chosen BA for the free copy, I would think that it’s p***ed a few of them off though, as per the views on this thread. So this has to be a sensible move surely. And to those who do like the DM – I’m sorry but it’s not a premium brand and no-one will be impressed in any way if they see you reading it.

• BA Points says:

  2 Dec2 December 10:49

  Without seeing people reading DailyMail on the flight how will I identify who the Brexiteers are???

  • Darren says:

    2 Dec2 December 12:12

    It’s the bloke/lady sitting next to you

  • Anthony Dunn says:

    2 Dec2 December 13:58

    Something I too had sussed!

  • Will says:

    2 Dec2 December 18:56

    Not always a give away. Bizarrely my good mother still picks up a free copy in CW to catch up on “gossip” apparently. She is far from Brexity though you might be shocked given she’s a pensioner and reads the DM. It would be nice to think the presence of a fascist mouthpiece on airliners isn’t particularly beneficial to revenue anymore but sure HfP are careful to choose their words carefully to not offend a potential source of income. Ditto the good state of Qatar’s aviation solutions provider.

  • Will says:

    2 Dec2 December 22:15

    According to the Guardian and BBC it should be quite easy, anyone who is old or illiterate.

    And James Dyson.

  • Andrew says:

    2 Dec2 December 23:10

    Ignore at your peril the votes of any newspaper reader. They are still more likely to be politically engaged than non-readers – and it’s only the votes of the people who do vote that matter.

    Only by reading, listening and engaging can you possibly hope to correct their views over time.

    I find it a dreary read to be honest. It’s nothing but “The man with a forrin accent from the “Gas Board” phoned me to tell me that there was a virus in the pipeline, I did all that he told me to on the computer and now my bank account is empty! Woe is me and The Royal Barclays Bank of Shanghai has refused me a refund!” Pouting face like a skelped-arse accompanying story….

• James says:

  2 Dec2 December 10:50

  I can’t imagine many people were using the service anyway and BA had to cart all that gumpf around constantly.
  I won’t miss it.
  Would rather this goes than something more important.

• Mark says:

  2 Dec2 December 12:17

  There’s nothing more satisfying than reading the mail in F! Just for the looks.

  • Will says:

    2 Dec2 December 18:57

    Would genuinely assume the Daily Heil & Tory rag are the most popular reads in F.

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