Bits: BA removes hot food on long short-haul routes, Virgin Atlantic launches Varadero

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• James Alexander says:

  9 Jun9 June 08:47

  Oh please let’s be honest – BA removing hot foods and salads is just plain cost cutting.
  STOP with the cringing apologies and changing your tone towards BA – they are cost cutting across the board – no more flowers in FIRST, meals, etc etc etc.
  SCROOGE !

  • Bob says:

    9 Jun9 June 08:56

    Cringing apologies = sarcasm, surely? 🙂

    • The_Real_A says:

      9 Jun9 June 11:13

      He must be American

• Bob says:

  9 Jun9 June 08:57

  I wish Virgin would announce dates for fleet replacement on these ‘leisure routes’ to Florida/Vegas. The 744 fleet is showing its age…

  • Mark says:

    9 Jun9 June 09:07

    Didnt they all recently get a bare metal refurb? Nothing “on show” should be showing its age.

    • Bob says:

      9 Jun9 June 14:43

      Yes I know about the refit but I guess it just goes to show that refitting a 15 year old aircraft does not bring the experience close to a modern aircraft type – and that the interiors live a hard life as they certainly look more than a few years old. Bit of overhead compartment hanging off most recent flight – UC washroom horrendously cramped and old fashioned. The whole experience a generation behind BA A380 or VAA’s own 787s (or Airbus models – let’s not forget how old the 744 design is in terms of engine noise etc…)

• Steve says:

  9 Jun9 June 09:05

  Flew to Corfu on Monday in ET. Got a box with cheese and mustard roll, chicken salad wrap, cheese and crackers and a chocolate and caramel mousse.

  No faffing with knife and fork, all were tasty. I enjoyed this much more that some of the really bad hot food options we have had.

  Perfect for a short three hour flight.

• Simon says:

  9 Jun9 June 09:17

  What happens if you order a gluten-free option? The boxes appear very heavily biased towards wheat.

  Have flown Malaysia before and the GFML offering (where regular economy got the snack box) was two apples!

  • DW201 says:

    9 Jun9 June 09:27

    You get a salad (which is much nicer than the tiny bun thing in the box….

• Frankie says:

  9 Jun9 June 09:37

  Norwegian is starting to fly to Vegas from Gatwick from the end of October using the Dreamliner

• dicksbits says:

  9 Jun9 June 09:52

  The truth is of course that BA would rather you didn’t know it was removing a salad from CE on a route like this. Even if they ‘announced this’ they wouldn’t like it being discussed online!! It probably irritates them greatly. Unless they saw a lot of salads in the waste from the flights (not sure how they’d measure this), they could have added something else rather than the usual pure enhancement.

• dicksbits says:

  9 Jun9 June 09:55

  It does make me wonder how much the bean counters need to cut costs if they constantly cutting the customer experience so visibly. This is the last area that should be cut.

• Kimberly says:

  9 Jun9 June 10:07

  Sadly, the salad is usually the best, most edible, part of the meal in CE. There’s no way they can be that expensive to prepare either as they are mostly lettuce and not filled with exciting vegetables and toppings.

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