The British Airways First Class amenity kit, crockery and bedding improvements are now live

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• NFH says:

  2 Apr2 April 08:13

  I agree with your observation about British Airways’ incorrect use of “entrée” to describe a main course. Wikipedia, a consensus definition, describes an entrée as follows:

  “An entrée in modern French table service and that of much of the English-speaking world (apart from the United States and parts of Canada) is a dish served before the main course of a meal. Outside North America it is generally synonymous with the terms hors d’oeuvre, appetizer or starter. It may be the first dish served, or it may follow a soup or other small dish or dishes.”

  Why does British Airways feel a need to Americanise British culture by the incorrect use of a French word?

  • CV3V says:

    2 Apr2 April 08:57

    Agreed, appetisers and entrees was the terms i encountered in the states, would prefer it if BA didnt copy it.

  • Alex W says:

    2 Apr2 April 10:57

    +1. Unforgivably un-British.

• MarcB says:

  2 Apr2 April 08:13

  Do you get to keep the noise cancelling headphones? (…Do you want to keep the noise cancelling headphones?)

  • TGLoyalty says:

    2 Apr2 April 08:21

    No they are collected at the end of the flight whenever I’ve been on one.

  • Russ says:

    2 Apr2 April 09:41

    No and you don’t get to keep the wings either.

• Paul says:

  2 Apr2 April 08:27

  Wow. We have had very different experiences. In my 21 sectors in F I have had 1 poor service experience – in fact the norm has been exceptional service. The problem is the appalling lounges, truly ghastly food ( and now drink). It will be great if the crew get something better to work with.

• Scott says:

  2 Apr2 April 08:33

  Flying First this Friday to San Diego. Looking forward to trying the changes.

• MDA says:

  2 Apr2 April 08:46

  OT: Anyway I can use amex points to redeem airport transfers / taxi rides?

  • Alex W says:

    2 Apr2 April 10:45

    Don’t think so but Tesco clubcard points can be transferred to Uber at 1:3

    • Chris says:

      2 Apr2 April 16:02

      Only for use on Uber in the UK I believe..

  • Doug M says:

    2 Apr2 April 21:20

    Do you have the Wheely offer on any Amex? £25 off £25 spend up to 3 times, and someone’s referral code gives 20% off your first booking. I have it on more than one card, so that’s a lot of cheap rides. Some reports I believe of it working beyond the 3rd time.

    • Jonathan says:

      3 Apr3 April 00:27

      I read comments on here about working beyond 3 rides but that wasn’t the case when I tried. Slightly annoying as I had the offer available on 2 other cards but thought I’d test it out1

• Nate1309 says:

  2 Apr2 April 09:03

  Flew my first, first flight last week. All positives from me.
  I was impressed with the step up in size and comfort of the seat/bed from club.
  I wasn’t particularly hungry after eating in the Concorde lounge as it was a late flight and I just wanted sleep. But I did try the veal. It was nice but not as nice as the food in the Concorde lounge. The fact you can eat with your partner opposite you in you seat was fun though. Especially as the baby was already asleep.
  The staff were fantastic and I couldn’t really ask for better service. They let my 18m old have the only spare seat in first, meaning my wife had a full seat and no bassinet. The staff were really amazing with him.
  No complaints from me at old first.
  Going to have the try the new first now….

  • Pid says:

    2 Apr2 April 10:06

    Flying next Mon with our 15mth old. Hope we manage to get a spare seat for her too!

    • Nate1309 says:

      2 Apr2 April 10:36

      Fingers crossed!

    • Scary says:

      2 Apr2 April 18:28

      Crikey. Glad I’m not flying F on those flights! What a nightmare for others boarding and seeing that!

      • Lady London says:

        2 Apr2 April 18:49

        I’m fine with seeing. More worried about hearing.

      • scambuster says:

        2 Apr2 April 19:53

        +1

      • Shoestring says:

        2 Apr2 April 20:02

        Well I think that’s just plain rude and lacking in humanity. If you’d said that in a racist way or about a handicapped person, you’d have been rightly castigated, same should hold true for rude criticism of the very thought of somebody travelling up front with a baby/ toddler.

        Nobody particularly likes children crying in their earshot – so what, the kids are entitled to travel in any class on the plane, travelling up front with young’uns isn’t somehow disallowed or not ‘on’ or showing a lack of consideration for fellow passengers just because they paid more for their ticket.

        Get that broomstick out of your backside, basically. Grow up & show some maturity.

      • Yorkieflyer says:

        2 Apr2 April 20:47

        I’ve always thought there ought to be family friendly cabins and those that aren’t

      • Novice says:

        2 Apr2 April 21:03

        @shoestring
        Yet you mock my OCD

        😁

      • Mike says:

        2 Apr2 April 21:14

        To all those who feel entitled to demand no babies in an F cabin, may I remind you these are commercial flights, and as long as the child/infant/baby has a ticket according to their fare, they have as much entitlement as you do to fly peacefully without dicks around. If you’re so special you can’t stand what you once were (a kid), then fly privately.

        (I’ll qualify this to say that this applies as long as the parents are doing their best to keep their children well-behaved on board. But that really applies to all situations in which children are in public, whether on an F, J or Y cabin in a plane, or at a restaurant, supermarket, playground, shop, or wherever.)

      • Novice says:

        2 Apr2 April 21:22

        Babies are actually better mannered than some adults.

        Recently I had a 14 hrs flight, the baby slept nearly all the way. And, she was a sweet angel amusing everyone the time she was awake.

        It’s usually the parents fault if kids are acting up.

        Once I had a flight where the parents slept whilst their child screamed and cried…

      • Evan says:

        2 Apr2 April 23:01

        I do happen to agree that kids should be able to fly in any cabin but it’d be a cold day in Hell before I’d take Harry as an exponent of equal opps.

    • Scallder says:

      3 Apr3 April 09:07

      Flying with our 18 month old in a couple of weeks. Loads looking good at the moment for spare seats which will be helpful!

• Grant says:

  2 Apr2 April 09:16

  OT but BA related. Bloomberg reporting that the unions have written to members recommending rejection of the latest pay offer, made last week. No word on strikes other than the unions saying they will begin preparing for industrial action.

  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-29/british-airways-unions-reject-pay-proposal-prepare-next-move

• Rob says:

  2 Apr2 April 09:56

  Or worth £0, since your local upmarket department store will give you equivalent samplers for free if you ask nicely!

  • Alex W says:

    2 Apr2 April 10:54

    Definitely ebayable. Amazing what some people will waste their money on.

  • Cat says:

    2 Apr2 April 14:11

    Usually the upmarket department store will give you samples of the bog standard range from any particular brand. They’ll give you samples of the £50 moisturiser, not the £200 one!
    If they see you as a high value customer, they might target you for a GWP including samples from that sort of price point.

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