New British Airways amenity kits rolling out in Business Class

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• Graeme says:

  28 Mar28 March 04:43

  Yeah any corporate reshuffle has debt and tax considerations.. wait for the IAG investor day to see what saving they attribute?

• Chris says:

  28 Mar28 March 04:48

  I wonder what impact this will have, if any, on the BA double tier points offer?

  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

    28 Mar28 March 07:22

    Why do you think it will have an impact?

    Even if it does the current offer runs until the middle of next year and BA would be stupid to rescind it now when it seems to be driving so much business BA Hols way.

    • Andy K says:

      28 Mar28 March 08:52

      if any?

• Phillip says:

  28 Mar28 March 05:16

  SQ’s Book The Chef is already available on London routes with a number of other celebrity chef partnerships.

• NigelthePensioner says:

  28 Mar28 March 05:38

  A white faux leather (plastic) bag……….with no pen? Absolutely nothing worth keeping. Everyone is coming down with black faux leather bags with just the pen in them, having emptied the rest of the rubbish into the drawer at the seat.
  Why dont IAG actually ask Customers what they actually want??

  • Tariq says:

    28 Mar28 March 06:03

    Not sure about the long-term durability of it being white, but the shape looks like it might be a bit more useful for future reuse.

  • Rhys says:

    28 Mar28 March 06:40

    The only flights in the past year I might’ve needed the pen are on those to China. It’s much less useful now the USA doesn’t do paper landing cards.

    • roberto says:

      28 Mar28 March 06:49

      As @tariq said the shape will suit my cables and stuff better than the current product which is good as my current First cable holder is finally giving up the ghost after 6 or 7 years.

      I will pick up a new one on my next trip but have declined or just left it behind since before covid. I reuse an older (better) eye mask and pack my own toothbrush so see little use for what is effectively BA landfill.

      It’s not exactly aspirational.

      • The Paw 🐾 says:

        28 Mar28 March 07:19

        I use the white 100th anniversary kit for charger and cables. Absolutely perfect size for what I carry. But yes, maybe white was not the way to go…mine is a quite marked up.

      • Andy says:

        28 Mar28 March 08:06

        I actually like the Virgin PE bags for cables and wot not… I don’t tend to fly Virgin often so I actually bought a couple off eBay

        Got a load of BA business ones that I never use

      • RussellH says:

        28 Mar28 March 14:54

        Toothbrushes – if you do not want them, or the toiletries for that matter, donate them to your local food bank.
        On the few occasions I have been in a position to get an amenity kit, they always used to have toothpaste too, sometimes bagged with the toothbrush, which was, I was told, particularly handy for homeless people.

        • Lee says:

          28 Mar28 March 17:54

          I used to collect the kits and hotel items from hotel bathrooms and give them to the Salvation Army which gave them to the homeless when using the facilities.

  • stevenhp1987 says:

    28 Mar28 March 07:06

    I cannot count how many of these bags we’ve binned while keeping the contents for future use.

    We keep a Qatar Airways bag in our backpack as the shape is nicer for it as well an an even older BA Club amenity bag for our TV box. Will be interesting to see how useful this will be in the future.

    Also not everything in the BA amenity kit is rubbish… The eye masks are actually pretty good!

    • HampshireHog says:

      28 Mar28 March 11:23

      You bin the bags but keep the contents! Eye roll

      • Rob says:

        28 Mar28 March 11:43

        That’s what we do. What do you expect when you get 8 bags on every family holiday?

        Currently wearing Qatar Airways / Diptyque EDT, a White Company moisturiser and shaved using some freebie shaving cream (probably from a hotel) this morning!

        • RussellH says:

          28 Mar28 March 14:58

          Surely no one on this site actually buys their own toiletries, rather than scrounging them from hotels and airlines?

• Andrew C says:

  28 Mar28 March 06:14

  I wish BA would dump the White Company – mid market, crummy product. Surely there’s a more luxury brand they could work with.

  • G says:

    28 Mar28 March 07:34

    Any suggestions Mrs Bucket?

    • Andrew C says:

      28 Mar28 March 19:25

      Liberty was a more iconic choice. Penhaligons, Anya Hindmarch, Barbour, Connolly, Floris, Hackett, Paul Smith would be better I think, but I agree that The White Company and BA are probably a good fit re their brand quality!

  • Rich says:

    28 Mar28 March 08:06

    You’ve described why they are perfectly matched?

  • executiveclubber says:

    28 Mar28 March 09:44

    Unfortunately there probably aren’t many other British skincare brands that would pay the premium to be associated with BA.

  • Alex says:

    28 Mar28 March 10:38

    A veneer of faux prestige, masking overpriced mid-market quality, seems to describe both BA and the White Company?

  • RussellH says:

    28 Mar28 March 14:55

    But surely BA are a mid market airline?

• OnTheRun says:

  28 Mar28 March 06:44

  The thing I would hate to see is a deterioration in the BA Holiday customer service offering under the new Avios management.

  To me, BA Holidays is (or was) the best part of BA.

  Where I have had to brace myself for a long call with BA and the nearly inevitable HUACA, I haven’t ever had to do that with the advisors from BAH.

  Hopefully this corporate reshuffle isn’t also accompanied by a desire to get cheaper, less knowledgable staff.

• Paul says:

  28 Mar28 March 06:46

  You can request a pen from the crew

• Rosalie says:

  28 Mar28 March 07:01

  When you mentioned the change to the amenity kits, I had hoped the cloth bags were making a comeback. These are much more reusable as shoe bags, and for packing soft items in my case etc.

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