British Airways releases four teaser photos of the new Club World seat

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• Mr(s) Entitled says:

  16 Mar16 March 16:37

  Looks like they have used tiling spacers and forgotten to take them out.

• BJ says:

  16 Mar16 March 16:37

  Looks like the Citylink Gold coach that operates the Glasgow-Aberdeen run!

• Chuck says:

  16 Mar16 March 16:59

  Haters gonna hate … I’m looking forward to it, when it goes fleet wide, I always seem to be on the ‘wrong’ plane or the ‘wrong’ route, only just flown the 787-9

  • BJ says:

    16 Mar16 March 17:11

    I’m actually quite happy with the current CW seat. Always sleep well and I like that the window pairs allow you to chat face to face with travel companions as opposed to sitting side by side. Main downside from my point of view is the lack of a legrest in the seat reclined position.

• Nick says:

  16 Mar16 March 17:44

  It looks just like, yet another, space & money saving, uncomfortable, ‘skinny seat’ to me!

  Image #1 has my back in spasm before even trying it out!

  IMHO, it’ll be a pain in the a**e! Period!

  • Shoestring says:

    16 Mar16 March 17:48

    You’ll eat your words, that’s no skinny seat lol 🙂

    It’s Club World, remember? Does *anybody* use skinny seats in Business?

    • Nick says:

      16 Mar16 March 17:59

      I doubt it! 🙂

      Well, it looks like BA do now! 🙂

      • Ian says:

        16 Mar16 March 22:02

        How can you make a comment like that from those photos. There is no way you tell what type of seat it is.
        Obviously just a BA hater!

    • Doug M says:

      17 Mar17 March 11:19

      IF TPA-LGW-GLA was a single ticket BA should have rebooked you. You’re also entitled to EU261 compensation if your flight was more than 4 hours late. BA are just an agent for Avis, all rental companies bait and switch car models all the time, the ‘Or similar’ is the biggest crock of lies.
      You obviously need to complain to BA about what has happened. Try to stick to facts regarding service and events. Stating the seat was narrow will get you nowhere, it is what it is, and if you’ve done this for 30 years you presumably knew what you wee getting? Calling the crew divas rather than having specific examples of their failure also won’t help. You need to be calm and very factual to get the best outcome. Ranting only makes you feel better in the short term, getting money from them is much more satisfying.
      In terms of avoiding it fly Virgin Manchester to Orlando, or AA via another USA east coast city and then TPA as a domestic. You really don’t need to fly via Seattle.

• Jotaele says:

  16 Mar16 March 19:38

  OT: Just for future reference in case it is useful for anyone. In a recent flight in WTP from LHR to JFK the in-flight entertainment didn’t work for the full flight. I’ve just been offered 5,000 avios as compensation.

  • BJ says:

    16 Mar16 March 19:49

    Not certain but I think people have reported 10k for that before.

  • Grant says:

    16 Mar16 March 19:59

    I think Avios compo depends on which cabin you were in.

    This thread on FT suggest 5k is the norm for WTP

    https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-club/1960568-3000-avios-new-going-rate-no-entertainment-9-hour-flight.html

    • Shoestring says:

      16 Mar16 March 20:09

      yep sounds about right

      kinda makes sense: let’s give more compo to people who paid more for their fares, even though it was the same service issue, we deprived you of 5% of your fare so you get 5% back

      • Matt says:

        16 Mar16 March 22:35

        5k Avios for no IFE for entire flight sounds downright poor to me.

      • Shoestring says:

        16 Mar16 March 22:47

        LHR-JFK isn’t going to be that much money, so 5K Avios is a decent % of the cost of the flight

  • ben says:

    17 Mar17 March 15:47

    I had the same issue and was offered 5k with an additional issue of the lighting on the same flight was offered 8k in total, the agent on the phone advised me that the contract BA has with their customers is to bring them from A-B, no guarantee re: IFE etc. hence the max goodwill compensation of 5k

    • Shoestring says:

      17 Mar17 March 15:57

      Well WT or WTP on LHR-JFK isn’t going to cost you much different to £200-300, surely? Getting £50 back in compo sounds fair.

• Shoestring says:

  16 Mar16 March 19:39

  I’ve done my research and this is what you’re getting:
  https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2018/05/09/westjet-unveils-its-first-business-class-seat-and-new-livery/

  • Polly says:

    17 Mar17 March 12:47

    That will do us just fine, thanks. However, redemption availability may be severely limited, l fear…

• Liam J says:

  16 Mar16 March 21:57

  Looks like the fabulous AA / CX seat, which I’m a huge fan of. Bring it on!

• Chris James says:

  17 Mar17 March 04:05

  Only about 10 years too late …

  • Cavemonster says:

    17 Mar17 March 04:32

    Agree with everything above. Once we have the nice new seat then my personal peeves – which seem to chime with others above – of cabin way too hot (what’s the point in fancy bedding when you’d dehydrate if able to use it) and galley crew chat (the nosey parker in my quite enjoys the tales of who sh*gged who last night etc) both of which mean rest is patchy need addressing.

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