Bits: extra British Airways Corfu service, Fortnum & Mason offering ‘eat on board’ hampers in T5

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• Twams says:

  8 Jan8 January 11:50

  I think this would be a great debate to have.

  One more thing to add to your list is boarding priority; this can be important to nab space if you are taking full advantage of your hand baggage allowance on a busy flight, although less of an issue in CE.

  Also status is an extra complication, if you already have lounge access /priority at security etc, that reduces the additional value of CE still further

  • DW201 says:

    8 Jan8 January 14:04

    I have silver from many many short haul economy work flights.

    Never book CE despite being 6″2. Got upgraded a few times and don’t understand the point when most of the benefits come with my status anyway.

• idrive says:

  8 Jan8 January 13:42

  Last week I booked a CW one way redemption with BA, found out I could not select a seat and had to pay! is it normal, since when? As I usually pushed all my bookings via CX Gold (not this time), I never realized before. I know instead that Status does not help for HBO fares, but this was a full Avios redemption..

  • Lady London says:

    8 Jan8 January 14:44

    It’s a particularly miserable policy of BA that they can charge you for a Business Class seat and not allow you to select your seat immediately.

    What you don’t know is that for every corporate account I’ve worked for with every corporate travel agent they DO give the ability to select the seat immediately upon booking.

    It helps a lot to be corporately connected if you’re flying BA in particular.

• Daz says:

  8 Jan8 January 13:50

  Ref the F&M “doggy bag”: Just let me step from my Ivory Tower – Lidl should get in on the act at the departures terminal; everything in the photo above you could get in Lidl for less than a third world country’s yearly council tax, and very nice food I would assume it would be.

  Whilst the Lidl logo would not get you any Brownie points from admirers in the jet-set, it would probably save you and the family being linched and made to walk the plank for being a smart ar%!e in Euro Traveller. ;-}

  • DW201 says:

    8 Jan8 January 14:03

    1000000% agree.

    I find it hard to eat healthy in T5 and the GR lunchboxes are great but no reason for the cost.

    In australia they have make your own salad bars in departures…

    • ankomonkey says:

      8 Jan8 January 16:51

      Sumo Salad is my favourite…

• Worzel says:

  8 Jan8 January 16:04

  Briefly putting my head above the Parapet; I wonder how Lord Sugar would asses the “hamperling” ?

• dicksbits says:

  8 Jan8 January 21:00

  I remember being really surprised a few years ago when I booked my first Club Europe seat as a Bronze member of the BAEC and finding out I had to PAY to select my seat in that cabin.
  I still think it’s ridiculous. Sure, keep the front row for Gold and Premier members, but the rest of the seats…?

  • Leo says:

    9 Jan9 January 10:19

    What within 7 days of the flight?

• May says:

  9 Jan9 January 01:44

  Just where is F&M in T5 & how far from the BA lounge? I never have enough time to shop in T5. As I travel to/via U.K. Once or twice a year, get all my TP via BA & oneworld. Now achieved tier I value the fast immigration (as non EU passport), the extra luggage allowance, check in & lounge. I always seem to go to uk with over 40 kg & return the same with uk products, my contribution to the local economy. Never enough weighs. Yes do fly CW in Europe for TP. Maybe 1 year will be able to achieve Gold!

  • May says:

    9 Jan9 January 15:46

    Thank you so much

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