British Airways launches a new Speedbird Cafe menu for your short-haul Economy flights

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• Thywillbedone says:

  14 Jul14 July 05:20

  Pleased to see Brewdog dropped as a partner. Very average beer and treat many employees poorly by all accounts.

  • Roehydes Finest says:

    14 Jul14 July 06:04

    It’s hardly by all accounts; a lot of “they said, they did” back and forth which has still to go through the legal process.

    Watt is clearly a driven individual (& perhaps more albeit here isn’t the place to comment) but the company regularly features in the top employee satisfaction surveys.

  • jj says:

    14 Jul14 July 07:05

    Brewdog is still there, unfortunately, although at least there is now a choice for ale drinkers. I hope that also happens in Club.

    I actively avoid spending money with businesses that deliver political lectures with their produce, so Brewdog is on my Don’t Buy list. Apart from their politics and poor employment practices, I agree that their beer is very mediocre. Time for BA to change partner in my view.

    • barry cutters says:

      14 Jul14 July 08:49

      Average and mediocre beer? Are you serious .

      Brewdog have produced thousands of different beers in almost every style possible. they have light lagers , pilsners, red ales, stouts porters, sour beers, doubles , tripples, fruit beers, pale ales, IPA, american ipa, dipa, DDipa, lambic beers, DDH, brown ale, and many many more. They revolutionised beer drinking in this county by mass marketing ‘craft’, introducing the general public away from fosters/carling/pride/smiths on to a variety which was previously drank only by weird bearded hipsters who like to talk about hops.

      I get you don’t like them for other reasons , but you cant say their beer is poor.

      • Rhys says:

        14 Jul14 July 09:31

        I like Punk IPA, but their Lost Lager is horrendous…

      • dougzz99 says:

        14 Jul14 July 09:43

        Barry, you remind me of a kid that thinks Sky invented football.

        • Barry cutters says:

          14 Jul14 July 10:20

          Sky invented football ? No idea – I’m a rugby fan . But on the subject of beer I’ve been to 90 countries and had a beer in each one . I’m a plant breeder who’s main crop is spring barley for producing malt. I’ve also worked with Maize, rice & wheat.

          I’ve visited over 50 brewery’s from Tiny little back room microbreweries in Kenya to huge factories in Ohio. I’ve tried and tasted hundreds if not thousands of different beers in my 20 legal drinking years with a high focus on ‘craft’ beer over the last 15. I’m on the AHDB Malsters and distillers board as an industry consultant. I’ll be on stand at the LCBF, tobacco dock Friday 12th August (trade day).

          I agree lost lager is a terrible beer , but so are many many other mass produced in the same category – coors / bud / skol

        • dougzz99 says:

          14 Jul14 July 11:01

          My point was there was good and bad beer long before Brewdog. They didn’t revolutionise beer drinking, they may have invented or revolutionised a style of marketing beer. It’s a sweeping generalisation I know, but my thought is always towards when you have to make a fancy tin and give it a silly name it’s because the taste won’t sell it. Now that maybe a problem of marketing rather than flavour, but many many craft beers I’ve tried are pretty poor. I certainly don’t have your expertise, but I’ve drunk a lot beer over the years, and whilst the craft beer trend has introduced some nice new beers, there’s an awful lot of crap sold too.

        • Will says:

          14 Jul14 July 12:23

          I’d say they did revolutionise beer drinking, I’m knocking on 40 now and when I was in my 20’s everyone I knew would drink Stella or Carling.

          Now everyone I know drinks fancy pants colourful tins of all sorts of larger and beers instead of Stella and Carling.

          Most of that is down to brewdog even if they’re buying a variety of brands these days.

          I know very little about beer bur most brewdog I’ve tried tastes different to the old staples.

          So they got large numbers of people drinking different tasting beer, that’s a revolution of sorts.

        • The Savage Squirrel says:

          14 Jul14 July 13:45

          “I’m knocking on 40 now and when I was in my 20’s everyone I knew would drink Stella or Carling.”

          May be more to do with the advancing years and so improving tastes and finances of your social circle rather than a cultural revolution 😉

      • jj says:

        14 Jul14 July 13:23

        Brewdog makes craft ale, not real ale, and there is a big difference according to my palate. Probably linked to this, I find Brewdog beer generally to be too gassy.

        It’s certainly better than cheap mass-produced lager. But, if you know where to look, the world has many finer examples of ale. My local specialist off licence stocks dozens of beers that surpass any Brewdog beer, and even my local Co-op offers several microbrewery real ales that far outclass it.

  • Rich says:

    14 Jul14 July 08:14

    Well BA doesn’t exactly come up smelling of roses where treating its staff, or customers for that matter, fairly.

  • Julian T says:

    14 Jul14 July 10:26

    Any average BrewDog beer is 10x better than all the clones (Carlsberg, Heineken, Carlin, etc etc)

  • Nate1309 says:

    14 Jul14 July 20:19

    I will take anything from Sharps over Brewdog. Summer – Atlantic, Winter – Wolf Rock, Or just Doom Bar.

    • dougzz99 says:

      14 Jul14 July 23:49

      👍 Doom is v good

• CheshirePete says:

  14 Jul14 July 05:44

  I like the fact the beer appears to be served in a replica real ale glass which I presume is made from plastic. Be good to take away for festivals!

• TimM says:

  14 Jul14 July 05:51

  Wot no egg & cress, cheese & ham nor tuna mayonaise sandwiches? Still available at Boots airside for £1.25.

• Andrew says:

  14 Jul14 July 06:00

  When we flew with BA back from Cairo (a 4hr+ flight on the A320 neo with the tiny loos) they had unsurprisingly sold most of the food on the way out leaving very little for the journey back. Even items i had pre-ordered were sold so the whole system is a mess. And then it’s down to you to apply for a refund etc. Crew were apologetic and embarrassed.

  It’s odd that easyJet etc seem to manage this far more competently that BA.

  • David S says:

    14 Jul14 July 09:30

    +1 nearly always my experience on the return flight with BA

  • Jonathan says:

    14 Jul14 July 11:16

    You spend the best part of 5 hours in the aircraft for travel to or from Cairo (assuming LHR is the other airport on the journey

• Luke says:

  14 Jul14 July 06:26

  Think I’ll pass on this, thanks.

  • Panda Mick says:

    14 Jul14 July 08:48

    Me too! Brie in a ploughman’s? Cheddar, deffo. Maybe lancashire, or stilton. But Brie?

    • Panda Mick says:

      14 Jul14 July 08:49

      apologies. I see that the Brie is leaving and being replaced by a Cheddar. Common sense prevails! Yay!

• Wallaj4 says:

  14 Jul14 July 06:32

  The F&D offering now on BE is awful . On 3 separate flights I took over one month recently , there was a different offering on all 3 . One you could grab coffee without pre order , one you could not get anything ect. When travelling around Europe on business , you are of always able determine the day before it you will run out of time and feel hungry during your flight

  • Wallaj4 says:

    14 Jul14 July 06:34

    You are not always able to determine you will be hungry on the flight

• Meyers says:

  14 Jul14 July 06:48

  “Leaving the building will be:
  – Jose Pizarro Tapas Box”
  That’s cos they’ve shoved ’em all over to the Iberia wet lease Club Europe cabins.
  Got one the other night (note ‘night’ ie. post 5pm, should be hot meal ‘night’). Worse thing ever!!

• Rich says:

  14 Jul14 July 07:04

  As always nothing particularly exciting or innovative from British Airways as the race to the bottom continues. Prices hugh enough that its cheaper to get a meal deal in the terminal and get same or better quality.

  • Jonathan says:

    14 Jul14 July 09:51

    The race to the bottom is what happened when the former CEO came along, and had was gloating his head off at scrapping anything complimentary for ET or customers, without any idea of what kind of failure the idea would end up becoming, before the preordering came along, there hardly ever any sandwiches that people wanted available on the flights

    Plus Rob mentioned about being given an uncooked pie that shouldn’t have been served in the first place, then never getting the refund he was promised proves what kind of shambles BA’s BOB system is, and something that needs major change, beyond what was announced here

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