Is this image the new British Airways Club World business class seat?

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• David says:

  31 Jan31 January 05:41

  On the Newark flight, does WTP really get an upgrade to J? How will that work? Are there enough J seats?

  • Shoestring says:

    31 Jan31 January 06:17

    I suspect it’s more a case of ‘will get either…or’

    Involuntary downgrade claim gets much better compo that the fare difference in most cases

  • Rob says:

    31 Jan31 January 06:18

    How many seats will be booked now for April-June?

    • TripRep says:

      31 Jan31 January 06:50

      Doubt they will still be selling WT+ on it now?

  • Alex W says:

    31 Jan31 January 07:55

    Presumably this only applies to passengers who have already bought tickets, and BA are no longer selling tickets for a cabin which doesn’t exist?

    • Rob says:

      31 Jan31 January 08:30

      Yes, although oddly F was still buyable last night even though WTP was greyed out.

• Sarah says:

  31 Jan31 January 06:56

  I’m not a fan of the CW seat but I’d say it’s better than the Air Belgium one, which I didn’t find very comfortable. IFE is also pretty dreadful. For me this is a downgrade for CW passengers but obviously an upgrade for WT+.

• BJ says:

  31 Jan31 January 06:57

  OT hotels: What strategies do HFP readers use for booking hotels for multiple night stays after a longhaul flight? So far I have always booked them from day of flight arrival but have been fortunate not to experience very long flight delays that subsequently caused a problem with hotel rooms being held, cancelled etc. Do many readers just take the risk like me or are you booking a single night only for date of arrival with multiple night stay being tagged on from the second day? Given some hotel policies I think this might be a more sensible option and thinking of following this strategy from now on.

  • Alan says:

    31 Jan31 January 07:00

    Must admit I’ve always just gone for multinight stays without giving it much thought!

    West Curio by Hilton in Sydney were superb – had my room available at 8.30am for coming off overnight flight too!

    • Matt says:

      31 Jan31 January 07:14

      Just do multinight stays and email hotel a week before with flight number and expected arrival time.

    • CV3V says:

      31 Jan31 January 08:16

      I stayed in the IC Mark Hopkins in San Francisco last month, very loud shouty customer beside me was irate at being charged for the room night when he had checked in at 3 am as his travel agent had assured him he could have the room for free. That was pushing it too far, i really wanted to join in and defend the lady at the desk but held myself back!

      • sunguy says:

        31 Jan31 January 12:52

        I agree that 3am is a bit far too early to expect a free early checkin …. although – if the lying cheat of a travel agent had told him he could, I understand his frustration – who knows his situation -sometimes agencies (and tour operators) have deals with hotels, where they have this benefit of post midnight checkins for certain customers.

        If he had booked it direct and there was no intermeditary, then sure 3am is definitely too early to expect the room comp – maybe a half rate or something (I used to regularly have to pay a half night for a 6am arrival, which I thought was fair!). But this is why people use travel agencies and professional travel consultants, so they know what to expect and maybe access to both rates and conveniences not always available to other customers or via different booking paths.

        So, maybe just as well you kept schtum!

  • John says:

    31 Jan31 January 09:07

    Just make sure you will be able to contact the hotel. If you tell them you will show up on the second night of a longer stay they won’t do anything. By the time you know you won’t make it for a one-night stay, it’s often too late to cancel or you would need to have booked a much more expensive rate.

  • paul says:

    31 Jan31 January 09:29

    Isnt that what insurance is for?
    Would book what I need, advise hotel of flight details and id delayed email to say delayed. If charged then claim via insurance /airline.

  • BJ says:

    31 Jan31 January 10:00

    Thanks to everyone for feedback. Seems like it is fine just to continue as I have but notify hotel of any potential issues as they develop. I would probably have done this in any case but the need never arose.

    • Cat says:

      31 Jan31 January 18:45

      Sometimes it works out in your favour. My Cathay flight HKG to PVG was delayed by nearly 10 hours. I arrived at about 4 or 5 am and the Hotel Indigo on the Bund had clearly given someone else my room, because I got upgraded (if memory serves – I was quite tired!) 7 room categories and got a river view corner suite on one of the top floors. It was AMAZING!

• Dan says:

  31 Jan31 January 06:58

  I need a room in Berlin in June. Was thinking of trying the Regent until I saw the rooms.

  • Matt says:

    31 Jan31 January 07:05

    I must be missing something lol. I think they look good but then I stay away from any luxury hotel described as comtemporary. Each to their own I guess.

• Matt says:

  31 Jan31 January 07:03

  I’d stay at my gran’s a lot more if her house looked like The Regent!

• Stuart says:

  31 Jan31 January 07:40

  If BA club world changes to suites, does this mean there will be less seats per plane and therefore the prices will go up and redemptions will either be harder to get or the number of Avios required also increase?
  Could the change happen at the same time as the earning rate becoming linked to revenue?

  • Shoestring says:

    31 Jan31 January 07:48

    could easily be yes & yes & yes & yes & yes

    I think BA have worked out long ago they don’t want First on many LH routes, so there’s space to be had there on some routes.

    They probably calculate that a fuller, higher-priced Business section with suites, no First, maybe a couple of rows of Economy removed —> is a much more profitable seat combination.

  • Rob says:

    31 Jan31 January 08:32

    A350 are new aircraft. 777 will be losing some F seats potentially. Density on ‘cubby hole’ seats is surprisingly high though. All that extra space to the sides of you is made up by your feet disappearing under the seat in front.

• Mark2 says:

  31 Jan31 January 07:59

  Those seats on the Runway Girl site look claustrophobic to me. Can you prop the door open?

  • Rob says:

    31 Jan31 January 08:29

    Yes. I never close the doors. In fact I am typing this in my Emirates First Class suite on the way to, erm, Stansted and the door is open.

    • Neil says:

      31 Jan31 January 08:52

      I hope you picked a middle seat and are playing with the fake windows

    • Alan says:

      31 Jan31 January 13:07

      I didn’t close the doors for my ‘eating’ suite with SQ last year, but did close (both) doors for my double-bed ‘sleeping’ suite 😀 The benefits of travelling in a near-empty cabin – 3 Suites for the (points) cost of one!

  • BJ says:

    31 Jan31 January 10:04

    I think there was a survey some years back after SQ launched suites in First. The responses suggested that pax preferred open cabins.

• Rma says:

  31 Jan31 January 08:08

  If BA install the QR suite seats, I hope they have an armrest on both sides of the seat. The lack of an armrest on the aisle side of the seat is uncomfortable. This has been designed to allow ease of access to the seat but it could be a moveable armrest, ason CX , AZ and possibly others.

  • AlexT says:

    31 Jan31 January 10:22

    The Suites do have a second armrest… you just need to raise it…

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